Let It Snow.
10 Episodes. Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Iddo Goldberg, Susan Park, Kate McGuinness, Sam Otto, Sheila Vand, Mike O'Malley, Annalise Basso, Shaun Toub & Lena Hall.
Captain America eats babies! Maybe that's why it took so long for the 2013 'Snowpiercer' film from Bong Joon-ho to make it's way over to the stars and stripes from the other side of the tracks. Here the Academy Award winning director of the 2020 Oscar's Best Picture 'Parasite' serves as executive producer, along with horror maestro Scott Derrickson, now departing the 'Multiverse Of Madness' that is Marvel's 'Doctor Strange' sequel. On board the Netflix streaming service series that also carries his outstanding 'Okja', meat is murder metaphor movie. Still Evans' epic performance and the superior 'Snowpiercer' film remains a cult classic. One that made for a nice virtual first trip watch with a friend like we were in quarantine last year...I recommend these type of friendship joining viewings now we really are locked down. Adapted itself from the French graphic novel 'Le Transperceneige' by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette, starring 'Parasite' and Joon-ho's 'The Host' South Korean superstar, Kang Ho-Song, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris and the late, great John Hurt now also streaming worldwide for the mainstream. You know what they say, you wait all day for a train and then it appear on everyone's laptop and smartphone ten years later...or is that a bus?! But yeah, in a movie that showed a bearded Chris Evans was more than the spangled Steve Rogers-like his 'Infinity War', quarantine beard freedom fighter-and part of a crew that had to contend with infant cannibalism. Burning like a human torch like he does now in movies like 'Knives Out', 'The Iceman', 'Gifted' and Netflix's own 'The Red Sea Diving Resort', I bet you're wondering why we need a remake and what so soon. We'll it is T.V., Netflix and the modern day. Besides we're stuck at home, playing safe, what else do we have to do? But you could do a lot worse. So like swiping left in this age of moviemaking Tinder for a Bumble hive of blockbusters, don't be so picky. This is a nice steady watch across the rails in our new anti-binge, chugging slowly style. Like 'Wayward Pines' is a poor man's 'Twin Peaks', but still nostalgic for that time episodic series' had a cliffhanger more epic than Sylvester Stallone's grip each week. Just wait until you see daylight.
Piercing through the snow like a knife through butter. Catch this one if you can as Jennifer Connelly and her crew in this railroad labyrinth look in uniform unison like they work for Pan Am...minus the blue bag. The 'Labyrinth', 'Requiem For A Dream' and 'Blood Diamond' actress who is about to take to the air with Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick', most recently played the JARVIS (fittingly as the 'Hulk' Betty Ross before Liv Tyler's husband is the original Q suit like Vision itself, Paul Bettany) to 'Spider-Man's' Marvel 'Homecoming' suit, hilariously called Karen. As another ice queen like Melissa Leo's on-screen, sci-fi 'Oblivion' character with Cruise, the 'A Beautiful Mind' star is on the form of her life with something on hers. Whilst 'Frances Ha' star Mickey Sumner, 'The Americans' Alison Wright, 'Peaky Blinders' Iddo Goldberg, 'Always Be My Maybe' star Susan Park, 'The Boy With The Top Knot', Sam Otto and 'Glee's (rest peacefully Naya Rivera), Mike O'Malley, fill out the rest of this crews train of thought and their provoking plot points perfectly. Meanwhile the tail end of this train are looking like extras from Noah Wyle's 'Falling Skies' crew. Yet our leader (Daveed Diggs...more on him later) to this science fiction story like a 'Book Of Eli' wants to break free from this prison like everyone else in economy, just like Wentworth Miller's, Michael Scofield. But without the plans to this runaway train blueprint tattooed to his back like the opening credits, he'll have to settle for the ripped shirtail of a grubby, penned map through the cars. As they all descend down the real depths of these carts like a 'Train To Busan' from 'Seoul Station', facing a horde of zombified suits in this claustrophobic carriage, world war apocalypse now. There will be blood like Paul Thomas Anderson directing Daniel Day-Lewis or the red lipstick stained shirt of 'The Steps' of the Haim sisters. As this thing is more violent than the lawsuit Wilford industries is about to receive off summons from Wikipedia.
Raising a hand for the fingerless gloves in economy, fighting for freedom. The revolution of Clipping frontman and leader Daveed Diggs is here. The 'Hamilton', 'Black-ish', 'Wonder' and Netflix, 'Velvet Buzzsaw' star really comes into his own as this train that doesn't stop here anymore like an Elton John song is his new star vehicle. One emotional uncoupling moment will engage you in all his compelling character. Whilst the 'Roots' of 'Hollywood' star Kate McGuinness is posed for a breakout like shes been here for years. With 'Argo' actress Sheila Vand, Broadway and rock star Lena Hall and new model talent Annalise Basso adding even more to the manifest and the destiny of this series that takes another railroad route for this train as unstoppable as Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. And how can the kindly Shaun Toub who helped 'Iron Man' get out his cave be so intimidating here? There's a moment in this moving vehicle were two lesbian lovers stowed away in secret talk about how they can't tell anyone about their love. But it's got nothing to do with their orientation and everything to do with their class. Making for a movingly subtle moment and statement from the show and streaming service that doesn't make a big deal or tick boxing pitch about same sex relationships. Presenting it for exactly what it is in this world and the class context of this story...absolutely and perfectly normal. Still, have or have not, the literal, physical and metaphorical social class divides that exist here, carriage to carriage still shoot through your heart (especially this year) like a Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto in bullet time. Or a sledgehammer cut to the arm of what looks like something Edward Scissorhands would sculpt for Winona Ryder (but just wait until that gets more personal). Top to tail. From decadence to despondency. Gatsby deco to pound of flesh debauchery. First to worst. No matter who you think the real parasites are as we break the ice on something that was always also the vehicle of a critical cautionary tale concerning climate change, real and right now. Whichever way you look at it. This is first class in the golden age of Netflix TV, from 'Ozark' and 'Dead To Me', or the international 'Money Heist' to 'Crash Landing On You'. Let's just hope there's no cancellations on this line. Now punching and upgrading its ticket for a second season on the way to station. All aboard the thawed. 1001 cars long. 10 miles and running. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'Snowpiercer (2013)', 'Train To Busan', 'Prison Break'.
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