SNOWPIERCER (2020) Season 1, Episodes 1-2: Plot Synopses, Writers, & Air Dates [TNT]

Snowpiercer Episodes 1-2 Plot Synopses, Writers, and Air Dates

TNT‘s Snowpiercer (2020) Season 1, Episodes 1-2 official plot synopses, writers, and air dates have been released. Spoilers are below.

Snowpiecer Season 1 Episodes 1-4 Press Release

Episode 1

SERIES PREMIERE
Sunday, May 17, at 9:00pm ET/PT

Snowpiercer, the Great Ark Train, has kept the last remnants of humanity alive for almost seven years. A rigid class system maintains order, with First Class holding power over workers, while a condemned Prison Class struggles to survive in the Tail. Now, a grisly murder is stoking class division, so Melanie Cavill (Jennifer Connelly), the powerful head of hospitality, deputizes a dangerous rebel to help solve the killing — Andre Layton (Daveed Diggs), the world’s only surviving homicide detective.

Josh Friedman & Graeme Manson wrote the screenplay for the episode.

Episode 2

Sunday, May 24, at 9:00pm ET/PT
“Prepare to Brace”

Layton (Daveed Diggs) uses his new position as train detective to investigate the murder while gathering intel for the revolution on the side. Meanwhile, Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) faces a resource crisis, with potentially drastic consequences for the entire train.

Donald Joh wrote the screenplay for the episode.

Plot Synopsis

Snowpiercer‘s plot synopsis: based on the film by Joon-ho Bong and the graphic novel by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, “Set more than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, Snowpiercer centers on the remnants of humanity, who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out in this riveting television adaptation.”

Cast and crew

Snowpiercer stars Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Susan Park, Rowan Blanchard, Aaron Glenane, Fiona Vroom, Aleks Paunovic, Iddo Goldberg, Benjamin Haigh, Sasha Frolova, Katie McGuinness, Alison Wright, and Annalise Basso.

Snowpiercer is produced by Tomorrow Studios (a joint venture between Marty Adelstein and ITV Studios), along with CJ Entertainment, who produced the original film. The series is executive produced by Tomorrow Studios’ Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements; showrunner Graeme Manson, who wrote the first episode; director James Hawes; Matthew O’Connor; Scott Derrickson, and the original film’s producers Bong Joon Ho, Miky Lee, Tae-sung Jeong, Park Chan-wook, Lee Tae-hun and Dooho Choi.

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