Opinion | Ani Bundel: 'Snowpiercer' prequel mixes classism and murder mysteries — with mixed results. - NBCNewsTHINK
is the best I’ve ever read. The feature-length pilot I made from that script may be my best work.
The new show runner has a radically different vision for the show. I am forgoing my option to direct the extreme reshoots.Clearly, the series that debuts tonight has undergone some serious changes. Connelly still plays the same general role Swinton did, as the “voice of the train,” though now as Melanie Cavill instead of Mistress Mason.
There’s also a reason this battered and bruised first season is airing on TNT, one of the longest running basic cable staples still churning out broadly drawn dramas. Whatever dreams TNT may have had of putting out a high-minded prestige drama are gone. Not that the early episodes aren’t leaning in this direction. The animated opening sequence, which then morphs into live-action, is as harrowing as anything in “Game of Thrones” or “Battlestar Galactica.” And the first few scenes suggest revolution is in the air, as those confined to the tail of the train make plans to hijack the next class of cars. But within the first episode the show takes a sudden and wild plot swing away from the promised parable of class systems and privilege.
Layton, you see, is a former homicide detective, and despite his unticketed “tailie” status, he also happens to be the only person aboard qualified to investigate a rather brutal murder. What transpires next is the oddest mashup; call it “Futuristic Law & Order on The Orient Express.” The first few episodes make a valiant effort to intertwine what was a story about oppression and rebellion with this procedural drama, but it’s clear immediately which show executives wanted to make.
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