Snowpiercer to keep rolling through the station for a fourth season
Get in your pirate train, TNT's Snowpiercer adaptation is going to keep on rolling
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It was such an ordeal getting TNT’s Snowpiercer TV show on the air in the first place, with multiple delays and shifts to other networks and other setbacks, that it’s really uplifting to see that Snowpiercer—an adaptation of the Bong Joon Ho movie of the same name—is getting a really solid run. Like, if Snowpiercer can become a successful TV show, there’s hope for all of us to become a successful TV show someday. Production on the show’s third season just wrapped, and in honor of the show’s continued ability to exist, TNT has announced that it has picked up Snowpiercer for a fourth season of frigid, train-related class warfare with Daveed Diggs, Jennifer Connelly, Alison Wright, Sean Bean, Rowan Blanchard, Iddo Goldberg, and Katie McGuinness.
The press release notes that the third season will kick off where season two left off, with Diggs’ character, Layton, taking over a small “pirate train” in hopes of using it to find somewhere safe to live (safer than a train that endlessly travels through the frozen wastelands of the world?!). The original movie is pretty cool, with that axe fight and Chris Evans’ speech about how babies taste the best, but it never had anything as cool as a pirate train. TNT’s press release announcing the renewal points out that Snowpiercer was the “#1 new scripted drama on all of ad-supported cable in 2020" and that the second season apparently had 21 million viewers and was a “top 5 cable drama,” so clearly a good amount of people are watching Snowpiercer already, but doesn’t “pirate train” sound like a great way to spend your time? You can see a video of the cast announcing the renewal from their pirate train below, which also serves as a teaser of sorts of the season three.
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It’s not that hard to be in the top 5 of scripted dramas on basic cable. The number of scripted shows on basic cable has really dropped in the last few years. Only FX and AMC air scripted shows on a regular basis with AMC al in on The Walking Dead universe. USA has The Sinner and SyFy simulcasts. At TNT, Animal Kingdom and Claw’s next seasons will be their last and another season of The Alienist is not guaranteed. Compare to that to a few years ago when MTV, VH1, WGN America, Bravo and even E! had scripted shows. A lot of it has gone to media companies’ streaming platforms.
Holy shit, four seasons?Question for watchers: Does the show do anything particularly novel or interesting with the premise or characters, or should I just watch the movie again?
For better or worse, the show tries some new things. Writing quality is very inconsistent. Prepare to be frustrated as much as entertained.
Yours response is almost perfect. For better *and* worse 🙂
What Pseudo said. Season 2 is an improvement over Season 1, but I still have issues.
Over/Under on when Melanie comes back from the “dead?”
I’ve wondered the same. I would like to have her character back—Melanie was so good at portraying the someone doing bad for the perceived greater good. But I don’t see how they could do it realistically. Do we know if Jennifer Connelly is starring in anything else soon/is she free? That could be our clue.
Jennifer Connelly dies, Sean Bean lives… we’re through the looking glass, people!
Possibly the only example of the TV series being better than the original movie….!AKA: Don’t bother with the movie… Just binge season 1&2 😁
the second season apparently had 21 million viewers and was a “top 5 cable dramaWhere in the high holy fuck are they pulling that number from?https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/snowpiercer-season-two-ratings/The season two premiere was literally the ONLY episode of the season to get over 1 million viewers. This is an expensive looking show, and while I’ve never watched, I gather its good, but often times I wonder how shows like this continue their runs when they’re garnering ratings like this.Also, I should say this isn’t unique. I worked on Dancing with the Stars for years; in the early seasons we were regularly getting a 12.0+ rating in the demo on 25+ million viewers. By the time I left the show three years ago, we were elated to get a 1.8 on 8 million viewers, and it’s even worse now. I know DVR/timeshifting is a thing, and L+7 ratings mean more, but Jesus, nobody fucking watches TV anymore. The ratings suck across the board.
It’s much better than the movie IMO. Very well written and acted. Jennifer Connelly is mesmerizing as a very complex hero/antihero. She had better return… Probably my fave drama right now.