Snowpiercer [TNT/Netflix] (**Spoilers**)

Agent Coulson

Agent Coulson

This has already been renewed for a second season.

Slydice

Looks solid. I wonder how they'll keep it the plot going. The film length felt fine but what more can they introduce?

CastorTroy

I was actually just wondering about this last week.
Don't see how they could stretch it out

Agent Coulson

Just reading that Netflix have bought the international rights for it.

sweetie

CastorTroy wrote:

I was actually just wondering about this last week. Don't see how they could stretch it out

Just make the train longer?

pixelburp

Yeah, watching that trailer left a deep sense of redundancy; I only saw in it a poor imitation of the film, via a desperation to show off the famous face they've nabbed.

Which reminds, if you haven't actually watched the original film, pease do: it's on Netflix and a surreal, bonkers masterpiece IMO. It's not hard Sci-Fi, more allegorical & requires the viewer to be in that frame of mind.

The production has been a bit of a mess: originally helmed by Josh Friedman (Sarah Connor Chronicles), while Scott Derrickson (Dr. strange) was to direct the pilot. Friedman got the boot, then later claimed he was pushed out - replaced with Graeme Manson (Orphan Black). Derrickson then refused to come back to do reshoots, in solidarity with Friedman. Then the show moved from TNT to TBS. So all in all, not an ideal start.

EoinMcLovin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rj1zV15YLg

Also it has moved back to TNT

Agent Coulson

Sean Bean joins season 2 as a series regular.

Slydice

Committing to more than one season? :eek:

TheValeyard

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Sean Bean joins season 2 as a series regular.

He's definitely going to get frozen to death.

Slydice

TheValeyard wrote: »

He's definitely going to get frozen to death.

First to stand up and die against the soldiers?
First soldiers to die?
Squashed between carriages?
Chokes on an ant (if they do food like the film)?

EoinMcLovin

Premieres on May 31

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-okLYpt0ToY

Full_Circle_81

I keep forgetting about this show. It feels like they've been making it/trailing it for years now.

pixelburp

What I'm most curious about is the tone of this: it's an inherently silly premise, and the film never shied from this, playing up the Class War angle to an absurdist degree. Playing everything straight-faced, or without enough tongue in cheek, could make the show a little tough to chew.

pixelburp

This is getting a mild bump in its release; it's now out in the US on May 17.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVMF7tz-20c

Slydice

Oh! Annalise Basso from Captain Fantastic in that church scene!

Slydice

Oh! Sean Bean is also in it:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6156584/

(

for only half the episodes

)

Slydice

Trailer 2: There will be blood!

EoinMcLovin

Slydice

Oh, I picked this up wrong.

I thought.. well guessed.. it was a reimagining or reboot or something.

JP Liz V1

Netflix UK on Monday May 25th

Slydice

Trailer!

Agent Coulson

Timothy V Murphy is in it.

Smiles35

Hard to get behind the senario or the plot. That would be horrible stuck in the same envioroment, never mind that you would have to pick sides.

pixelburp

Wait, so this is a prequel series, on the same timeline as the film? Huh. That's an interesting choice, feels like the writers are needlessly constraining their ability to tell their own story though.

Like the look of it though from that last trailer; 10 episodes season according to WikiPedia. Feels about right for the nature of the setting & story.

mod edit: just FYI, I checked & there's apparently only a week between US & Netflix broadcast. Don't think "US pace" is that relevant to the thread anymore.

Mitch Connor

Huh, being a prequel locks them into an ultimate outcome. Disappointing.

Slydice

Netflix trailer. Has some different bits..

Agent Coulson

Jennifer Connolly being Mr Wilford really isn't a great twist it was pretty obvious really but at least they got it out there and didn’t drag it out for the season.

oneilla

Bit of a middling first episode. Hard to see how it will sustain interest if it's going to follow a pattern of your man leaving and then returning to the tail in between investigating.

Slydice

1: Good quality production values. Decent universe intro and enough unknowns I think. It'll be unusual to see how they've structured it into a tv series. Guessing it'll be exploring a few carriages/people cultures per show.

EoinMcLovin

First 2 episodes are now available on Netflix

Agent Coulson

They kept keeping freezing and smashing of limps from the film.

They also seem to be able make opium so they must be growing poppy somewhere on the train.

There is going to have to be land or another train involved at some stage it can't just be a different murder every season.

Zero-Cool

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

First 2 episodes are now available on Netflix

I can't see it on Netflix, am i missing something?

Agent Coulson

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I can't see it on Netflix, am i missing something?

The first two are there on the Irish Netflix alright.

Zero-Cool

Agent Coulson wrote: »

The first two are there on the Irish Netflix alright.

This is so weird, not showing for me but it's on my phone app, not the LG app.

Zero-Cool

Plugged out the telly for 10 seconds, back on started Netflix and there it is. Very weird. Thanks.

Aisling(",)

I watched the first two episodes. I hadn't seen the film but I'm familiar with the plot.
I'm enjoying it so far. I've only known Daveed Diggs from Hamilton so I'm interested to see how he works as the leading man.
The scene in episode 2 with the

Mothers arm being frozen and smashed

was a bit mad but shows how insane it is outside.

I used to hate waiting for weekly episodes of shows but I'm a fan now as I wont be back in the office till September at the earliest and it marks the days.

gmisk

I have watched the episodes on Netflix I am enjoying it.
It's more like a police procedural than anything like the film. But the setting is still a lot of fun, Jennifer Connelly is excellent

Slydice

2: Solid story being developed! They've definitely got an arc or two figured out.

That scene with the arm!

Yikes!

gmisk

Slydice wrote: »

2: Solid story being developed! They've definitely got an arc or two figured out.

That scene with the arm!

Yikes!

Ah in fairness

that happened in the film so I wasn't shocked tbh...I would have been I'd they did it with the child!

is_that_so

gmisk wrote: »

I have watched the episodes on Netflix I am enjoying it.
It's more like a police procedural than anything like the film. But the setting is still a lot of fun, Jennifer Connelly is excellent

Yeah very different. Only recently watched the original so my view of it is coloured! It's OK but not fully sold on the episodic story or premise.

Slydice

gmisk wrote: »

Ah in fairness

that happened in the film so I wasn't shocked tbh...I would have been I'd they did it with the child!

I think it might have been the

actress really got me on the pain of the cold. Then later she did well with the deliriousness

Slydice

3: Ah of course. I bet

he's working for daughter being played by Annalise Basso. Hard to imagine she's come to the series not to be high profile. I'd say she might be a kind of kingpin.

Everything still feeling new and exploring the train.

One thing caught my attention though, when

everyone started fighting in the fight carriage, it looked very spacious. I thought I was imagining it but then they switched to the tail and it felt more narrow. Guessing it's an artistic thing to give the different feels of the different levels.

Sleepy

Loving this show! Hadn't realised it was a prequel which definitely limits the possibilities for where they can go with it.

Hyzepher

Sleepy wrote: »

Loving this show! Hadn't realised it was a prequel which definitely limits the possibilities for where they can go with it.

Is it possible that this is a second train and the real Wilford is on the other one - the film centred one? Therefore maybe allowing them to go a different direction with it?

Zero-Cool

I never saw the film, must watch it after this.

Also, when googling yesterday to see when episodes get released on Netflix, the top links were for "disgusting scenes where a teenager is made perform oral sex for medicine". I saw about 2 seconds of that description in the intro (didn't look like a teenager though) and thought oh, there must be a much worse bit coming up....and it never did.

I can't believe people got upset over that. Well it's 2020 so I can believe it but still...

youcancallmeal

I wonder if

Ed Harris will make a cameo

or maybe even be a central character in a later season

pixelburp

Given this is meant to be a prequel to the film, if we references character or events from that, maybe pop some spoiler tags on it. Seems a fair request for the varying exposure people will have to the property.

Only caught the first episode and liked what I saw: the Murder Mystery is a slightly hackneyed approach in getting a lead easily into the various class strata of the train itself - but it worked. A detective opens (and closes!) a lot of doors, and helped contextualise the various class struggles.

The lack of zippy, slightly insane energy of Bong Joon-ho is kinda lacking - but that was always to be expected. The train still had a captivating aesthetic to it.

Hyzepher

I don't understand how the class structure works. Are they paying for their passage and if so how? Since the world outside the train is no more and money is somewhat useless. Also who is the autority on the train and how do they prevent the poice or whatever from taking over?

youcancallmeal

Hyzepher wrote: »

I don't understand how the class structure works. Are they paying for their passage and if so how? Since the world outside the train is no more and money is somewhat useless. Also who is the autority on the train and how do they prevent the poice or whatever from taking over?

It was kind of touched on in the latest epsiode that the first class passengers helped fund the building of the train with their wealth before the big freeze, so that was the cost of their ticket in a sense. As for other classes not sure, maybe they pay for their tickets with their service