TV REVIEW: SNOWPIERCER - Season 3

3.5/5

Big Alice In Borderland.

10 Episodes. Starring: Daveed Diggs, Rowan Blanchard, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Iddo Goldberg, Kate McGuinness, Sam Otto, Sheila Vand, Mike O'Malley, Annalise Basso, Steven Ogg, Lena Hall & Sean Bean. 

Let it snow again with piercing coldness this Spring, as blossoms fall into the streams below. 'Snowpiercer' Season 3 on ITV and Netflix upgrades to a better class. All before it heads for the top of the train like first in this dystopian look of class divides and struggles in a metaphor almost as long as our laundry list of train puns. Staying on track with this post-apocalyptic adaptation of South Korean master director Bong Joon-ho's definitive masterpiece of a movie that hangs over it like a 'Parasite', but forging its own path to a new Eden as tempting as low hanging fruit for Adam on the eve of what could be a monumental fourth series now we know it's in season. You may think like the 'Empire' of Terrence Howard or Netflix's 'Star Trek: Discovery' that the super streaming site has now lost, how this can last. But this runaway train has more railroad than this show has executive producers. One being Oscar winner Joon-ho. Another the 'Sinister', 'Doctor Strange' director Scott Derrickson, who almost gave Marvel a 'Multiverse Of Madness'. And in a time were there is so much trouble, man, we come apart like the words of Marvin, these carriages carry on with serious substance and symbolism to a world as divided as rich and poor, top to bottom. Even if it is one track and one train on Snowpiercer. 994 carriages long and looking like it could have that many episodes. Ever since we first came aboard in 1982 with the French 'La Transperceneige' graphic novel by Jaques Lob that was just the ticket to all this. 

Tumbling down the rabbit hole of the tracks that tear ahead, Big Alice is stumbling and searching for a wonderland through this looking glass. But will this train go on without the great Jennifer Connelly after last seasons heartbreaking cliffhanger of a conclusion? This Maverick is about to be a 'Top Gun' with Tom Cruise finally taking to the skies again this Summer after the long layover of a COVID-19 induced flight delay. Still without her holding down the line, star of the show Daveed Diggs keeps digging in as all the passengers and crew beat their chest in unison towards him. Some in solidarity. Others in challenge. Souls are stirred by coming of age star Rowan Blanchard becoming her mothers daughter and the undeniable Mickey Sumner becoming the heart of this winters bone. But our favourite right now has to be the train serving reliability of Alison Wright. Whether that means she dons the Pan Am like uniform, or sticks more than her neck out for the train in this revolutionary railroad. Meanwhile, more screen time and substance for Iddo Goldberg at the helm really makes this the deepest and darkest season yet. Back from a deep freeze like 'Snowpiercer' movie star Chris Evans, Kate McGuinness is ready to claim hers too. All whilst Sheila Vand like Layton is prepared to do anything for her family. Desperate times like Andy Garcia. Desperate measures like Michael Keaton. 

Loves young dream derailed comes through the star crossed eyes of Sam Otto and Annalise Basso. But 'Lost In Translation', how about Mike O'Malley with 'Glee' finally singing and dancing and giving Bill Murray a run for his Roxy Music jukebox money? What could be 'More Than This'? Sweet moments in a train soured by the snowdrop with no plus points like the new South Korean Disney show. BLACKPINK! It's the scene of 'The Walking Dead' star Steven Ogg's life that really captures that fact in another top ten list of epic episodes. But for all the stars that shine here on this Shinkansen of the snow. Especially with the stage set of the singer and actor Lena Hall in all her theatrics. The biggest one is still the legend of Sean Bean. And the walking spoiler is still here too. No talk of taking the little ones. The crueller his character gets you will intend different, but still in this permanent Christmas with nothing under the tree, he is the coal in this furnace that keeps this train going. Even if it is all black smoke for a man who surely doesn't look in the mirror. But how many more return trips can you book before this big ticket is invalid? Circling the globe like the sun one more time, this wasteland still has promise. A little bit like the world outside our window. It may be frozen right now, but we're not ready to let it go. Building snowmen whilst the world around us freezes over in a new hell. The remnants of this reboot is exactly the reflection outside the frosted glass that we need in a world of social injustice that trails behind this tail. In this class warfare it's the survival of the fittest. And this train knows how to run. TIM DAVID HARVEY. 

Further Filming: 'Snowpiercer', 'Star Trek: Discovery', 'Squid Game'.