Snowpiercer

  • A Night Car named desire displays Snowpiercer’s ‘Trade’ craft…

    With Mel’s fate unknown, the passengers of Snowpiercer can only hope she’s managed to get to the beacon and kickstart the monitoring of rising temperatures. Layton needs to keep tabs on Wilford and the best way to do that is on Snowpiercer itself – so he arranges a night...
  • Snowpiercer: An emotional Thaw and a Cold Comfort Odyssey…

    Mel prepares to leave Snowpiercer to spend a month at the tracking station in the hope of tracking the thawing Earth. But everyone is aware it could be a suicide mission and Wilford relishes every chance to use that fact against his enemies. He’s not a patient man, but...
  • Snowpiercer: Cold War diplomacy begins to ‘Smolder’…

    With the two trains now solidly locked together it’s clear that some sort of balance, temporary thought it might be, has to be agreed. An exchange of ‘guests/prisoners’ is arranged in which both sides will obviously try to evaluate the others’ strengths and weaknesses.  But even as Wilford agrees...
  • Back on track, but one does not merely walk onto Snowpiercer…

    Andre Layton (Daveed Diggs) has managed to successfully execute his revolution to take control of Snowpiercer, but there’s been no time to celebrate. Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean), the creator of the train and presumed long dead has made a return aboard a smaller but arguably far superior transport named...
  • Snowpiercer’s S1 finale goes through the Looking Glass…

    The revolution aboard Snowpiercer is underway and both the front of the train and the ‘lower classes’ know that everything is in play. There’s been major blood-shed and loss and Layton (Daveed Diggs) wonders if their momentum can and should be maintained with such losses. It’s a concern that...
  • Viva la ‘Revolutions’ as Snowpiercer launches its class-action battle-cry…

    Layton has revealed Melanie’s darkest secret and as the other ‘movers and shakers’ of the train react to the news, everyone begins to re-evaluate their power-bases and future. In the first class carriages, Melanie is imprisoned and Ruth reels at her betrayal but the Folgers and Commander Grey see...
  • Snowpiercer faces external, internal and ‘Engine Eternal’ problems…

    In the wake of the trial Melanie realises that the reactions to the verdict could tear the train apart on a social level. But that could become a literal catastrophe when a minor engineering fault escalates into a situation that could derail the 1001-carriage transport and her knowledge of...
  • Snowpiercer’s directed verdict – do the eyes have it?

    The trial of LJ Folger (Annalise Basso) begins with plenty of people already deciding what the outcome should be. Pressure is put on Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) from the likes of LJ’s  rich and powerful parents but also from the less rich, but still highly influential Audrey (Lena Hall), mistress...
  • Best Served Cold: Layton sub-zeroes in on ‘Snowpiercer’ answers…

    Layton’s investigation continues, but so do the killings and  the newly-conscious Nikki is found to have had that reawakening halted by a knife to the throat. But with movement between the carriages restricted after problems at the fight-club, the killer’s return to First Class is prevented and the net...
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