Note: this is a spoiler-free advance review of the first episode of Snowfall, which premieres on FX on Wednesday, July 5 at 10pm EST.
Snowfall may be the closest we ever get to seeing John Singleton revisit the world of his classic 1991 film Boyz n the Hood. This new FX drama (created by Singleton along with Eric Amado and Dave Andron) is set in the same general South Central LA area, but unfolds a decade earlier and sets out to trace the origins and impact of the crack cocaine epidemic. An ambitious goal, but judging from the first episode, Snowfall may be trying to cover too much ground.
The series certainly seems in no hurry to get to the meat of that epidemic. The first episode opens in the summer of 1983, introducing a number of players from different corners of the drug trade whose lives begin to loosely intersect. Damson Idris (City of Tiny Lights) stars as young Franklin Saint, a South Central native whose brief time as a scholarship student at a prestigious school gives him a somewhat unique outlook on race relations in LA. The series also focuses on luchador wrestler-turned-bodyguard Gustavo "El Oso" Zapata (The Borgia's Sergio Peris-Mencheta), his ambitious new boss Luica Villanueva (Breaking Bad's Emily Rios) and disgruntled CIA agent Teddy McDonald (The Night Of's Carter Hudson).
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