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The story of the birth of the crack epidemic centered in L.A.
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SNOWFALL THREAD. (tv series)
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Should have been set in NYC and on a premium network not FX or at least AMC.
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nah, you buggin LA is def the right setting and FX pulls no punches when it comes to explicitness so a premium network doesn't really matter
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John Singleton’s ‘Snowfall’ Opens ATX TV Festival: ‘It’s Like ‘The Wonder Years’ With Coke’
The opening night of the sixth ATX TV Festival celebrated the premiere of FX’s new drama “Snowfall” from filmmaker John Singleton. It’s Singleton’s first foray into series television after getting his feet wet directing episodes of FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime story” and Fox’s “Empire.” Veteran producer-director Thomas Schlamme and executive producer/co-creator/showrunner Dave Andron (“Justified”) were key to helping Singleton fully realize the story he wanted to tell, which is based partly on his own experiences growing up in Los Angeles.
Like the show’s lead character Franklin Saint, Singleton went to high school in the valley for a year, where he noticed, “My friends in the ghetto smoked weed, my friends at school did coke.” Singleton did what he knew all good writers did, he wrote what he knew and used oral histories from people who lived through these events at the time. Singleton said, “I wanted to create a world.”
When the first version of the pilot didn’t come together, Dave Andron joined the project, did a rewrite and then a cast of actors was assembled and the show was off and running. Damson Idris auditioned on tape from London and spent a day with Singleton to prove he could do a convincing American accent and South Central swagger. Tommy Schlamme’s wife, actress Christine Lahti, suggested Carter Hudson for the role of CIA agent Teddy after seeing him in an off-Broadway play. Hudson put himself on tape and the “Snowfall” producers flew him to L.A. the next day. Schlamme says he told Hudson, “If you get the role, you owe Christine ten percent.”
Describing the relationship between CIA agent Teddy and Nicaraguan Contra soldier Alejandro, Juan Javier Cardenas explained it to be an odd couple relationship, “Teddy and Alejandro are in a hellish marriage and they have to make it work. Alejandro comes from a really dark world. He’s a patriot who is trying to get his country back.”
The drama is set in 1983 Los Angeles but the team was careful not to go overboard with ’80s kitsch. Singleton revealed, “It’s nostalgic but not over the top. Even the music, a lot of the music of the late ’70s was still popular in the ’80s. It’s like ‘The Wonder Years’ – with coke.” Andron added, “We left out the shoulder pads.”
“Snowfall” premieres July 5 at 10 p.m. on FX.
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Like the show’s lead character Franklin Saint, Singleton went to high school in the valley for a year, where he noticed, “My friends in the ghetto smoked weed, my friends at school did coke.” Singleton did what he knew all good writers did, he wrote what he knew and used oral histories from people who lived through these events at the time. Singleton said, “I wanted to create a world.”
When the first version of the pilot didn’t come together, Dave Andron joined the project, did a rewrite and then a cast of actors was assembled and the show was off and running. Damson Idris auditioned on tape from London and spent a day with Singleton to prove he could do a convincing American accent and South Central swagger. Tommy Schlamme’s wife, actress Christine Lahti, suggested Carter Hudson for the role of CIA agent Teddy after seeing him in an off-Broadway play. Hudson put himself on tape and the “Snowfall” producers flew him to L.A. the next day. Schlamme says he told Hudson, “If you get the role, you owe Christine ten percent.”
Describing the relationship between CIA agent Teddy and Nicaraguan Contra soldier Alejandro, Juan Javier Cardenas explained it to be an odd couple relationship, “Teddy and Alejandro are in a hellish marriage and they have to make it work. Alejandro comes from a really dark world. He’s a patriot who is trying to get his country back.”
The drama is set in 1983 Los Angeles but the team was careful not to go overboard with ’80s kitsch. Singleton revealed, “It’s nostalgic but not over the top. Even the music, a lot of the music of the late ’70s was still popular in the ’80s. It’s like ‘The Wonder Years’ – with coke.” Andron added, “We left out the shoulder pads.”
“Snowfall” premieres July 5 at 10 p.m. on FX.
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Can't wait
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Looks like a good show. I'll tune in.
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Bump coming on in bout 6 mins
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forgot about the premiere tonight, the first ep is already up on demand though
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Ima check this out
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Show already FIRE
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I forgot that it premieres tonight.....hopefully I can watch it later On Demand.
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First episode was pretty good 
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I'll be rewatching this a few times before next week. Who would've thought voice of reason would be drug dealing uncle
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Forgot all about this and only caught like the last 20 min.
Was the premiere good?
Was the premiere good?
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They usually are...
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First episode was good
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Very, very good premiere. Great pacing.
I'm in
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my dude rocking the straw in his ***
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This dude playing Franklin is killing it already. This should be real good. This ain't the dumb we just wake up one day and drugs are there and we become drug dealers nonsense. They're going deep into what really led to the madness. That's what made The Wire so great.
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Ahh, I need to check the premiere out. The promo caught my attention.
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Pretty good show, the uncle was like, hell no im not helping your dumb *** move that much in 24 hours, (not in those words but probably in his mind). lol
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First episode was slow and the stories weren't tying together well. I'll give episode 2 a try, the premise is good, but the execution is poor. Franklin's story is the only one that makes sense. It's like a poorly done version of GTA V in the 1980's
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First episode was dope. Interested to see how each storyline connects moving forward.
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I'ma check this out a show centered around the 80's drug impact on black america has been well overdue
