Whatâs on TV This Week: âSnowpiercerâ and âResident Alienâ
âSnowpiercerâ returns on TNT. And Alan Tudyk stars in a new comedy series on Syfy.
Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs in âSnowpiercer.âCredit...David Bukach/TNT
Jan. 25, 2021
Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Jan. 25-Jan. 31. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
SNOWPIERCER
9 p.m. on TNT. Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly star in this science-fiction thriller series, based on both Bong Joon Hoâs sci-fi film of the same name and on the series of French graphic-novels that inspired that film. All three share a biting social commentary and a post-apocalyptic setting: A train circling a frozen earth ravaged by a climate calamity, carrying a population of human survivors who are divided by class. The first season of the TV series introduced a former police detective (Diggs) and a member of the trainâs bourgeois leadership, Melanie Cavill (Connelly), who holds a rare sympathy for the trainâs lower-class inhabitants. The second season, debuting on Monday night, will reveal more about the trainâs mysterious billionaire creator, played by Sean Bean. The show has unplanned echoes with real, present life â as Connelly pointed out in an interview with The New York Times in May of last year, when the first season debuted. âEveryone on that train has been separated from their communities, the lives that they lived, the places that they loved,â she said. âWe didnât imagine that, by time this show came out, we would all be living a version of that.â Going into the second season, that grave resonance remains.