TNT's adaptation of the 2013 sci-fi thriller-on-a-train 'Snowpiercer' takes some confounding twists on a long road to nowhere. Alan Sepinwall's review
after original adapter Josh Friedman was fired — is doing here. Rather, opening things with a murder mystery is more in the vein of whathave done in recent years: lingering on the earliest phase of a story for as long as possible to better explore the world.
But there are a lot of problems with this approach. The first is that the show is still spending the opening half of its debut season pretending to be something it’s not, and not doing that thing particularly well.
More importantly, though, examining how the train operates and what life would be like under such unusual conditions proves a question better considered than answered. The more Layton and Till explore the cars and meet different people, the less sense any of it makes. Going in, you already have to shrug off obvious issues like how a train circumnavigates the whole planet.
Nowhere is that transformation more apparent than in the shift from Swinton to Connelly. Connelly is actually by far the strongest part of the show — utterly cool and confident in a role that requires her, like Melanie, to do many different jobs in the middle of this runaway trip. Late in the season, she basically becomes John McClane in a skirt-suit for a few scenes, and Connelly sells it just as strongly as she does everything else Manson and company ask of her.
That push towards normality is also a sop to the realities of television. Strangeness is a very hard thing to maintain week after week, season after season, and the few shows that have been able to do it (
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