While it’s great to see character actors well-cast, it’s the regular ensemble of the show that really makes “Snowfall” work. Some of those minor ones are eventually filled by familiar faces, including RZA, Bokeem Woodbine, and the great Kevin Carroll of “The Leftovers” as Franklin’s father. It’s a surprisingly ambitious venture narratively, allowing characters to share time in the spotlight and let minor ones come and go. "Snowfall" has been billed as the origin story of crack, but that form of cocaine isn’t even a part of the show until over the halfway mark of the first season. The result is a show that feels surprisingly broad-it’s not just a kid getting in over his head, it’s an entire country about to be forever altered by the drug trade.
“Snowfall” only occasionally allows its trio of plotlines to intersect, as multiple episodes bounce from one to the other with little to no connection. Teddy may be in over his head, but he’s no innocent either, indicated by a dark past and a willingness to do anything to make the “guns for drugs” plan work. Teddy decides to step into the shoes of a man selling drugs in order to fund a revolution in South America, working with the mysterious Alejandro Usteves (Juan Javier Cardenas). Lucia and her partners are working the drug trade from a different angle, already in deep with powerful crime families and dealing with quantities large enough to get them in serious trouble from the law or those who want what they have.įinally, there’s Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson), a CIA desk jockey stuck pushing papers until one of his agents overdoses after a particularly intense night of sampling his own product. Lucia and Pedro hire a Mexican wrestler nicknamed Oso ( Sergio Peris-Mencheta), and, well, things don’t go exactly as planned. Second, there’s Lucia Villanueva ( Emily Rios), another young drug entrepreneur who, working with her cousin Pedro (Filipe Valle Costa), conspires to rob her uncle, one of the most popular drug lords in town. After crossing paths with a vicious cocaine dealer named Avi ( Alon Aboutboul), Franklin starts to deal the hard stuff, getting deeper into a criminal underworld that he’s smart enough to navigate but could still easily get him killed. He has a supportive mother (the great Michael Hyatt) but she’s off trying to support the family whenever she can and Franklin is drawn to his more-criminal uncle Jerome ( Amin Joseph) and aunt Louise (Angela Lewis). kid who’s smart enough to realize that slinging weed isn’t going to guarantee that he doesn’t end up like his father, homeless on the street. When you pull apart this complex show, it’s really about three people from very different backgrounds and with very different skill sets whose lives are forever altered by the draw of the drug trade.įirst, there’s Franklin Saint (Damson Idris), an L.A.
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“Snowfall” has been billed as the story of the crack epidemic in 1983 Los Angeles and what it did to the black community there, but that’s underselling the scope of this piece, one that tells multiple intersecting stories about people caught up in something much greater than they’ve experienced before.
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