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If you watched the second season premiere of Snowpiercer you would have been treated to the sight of a failed insurrection and the first glimpse of a charismatic despot threatening the train s freshly won and newly formed democracy. Said autocrat loves cruelty, mind games and thrives on worship. He s also played by the charismatic Sean Bean.
For some of us Bean s addition to the Snowpiercer mix may be enough reason to clench our jaws through a second season that launches with more surety and narrative clarity than the first while somehow feeling less watchable because . . . look around.
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Depending on your living circumstances you may have felt like you ve mainly been existing inside of closed-in spaces for almost a year now, almost as if our world has shrunken to the space of a few connected cars. The good news is that we have access to delivery, takeout and the grocery store while these poor schlubs have to exist on whatever they can grow in the agric
Snowpiercer was conceived as a nonstop thrill ride, and season 1 of the TNT hit lived up to its promise. In the twisty finale, Daveed Diggs’s ex-cop character Andre Layton finally triumphed over the titular train’s ruling class. But just as Layton and hospitality chief Melanie Cavill (played by Jennifer Connolly) joined forces, they and the other passengers aboard the 1,001-car locomotive learned of additional postapocalyptic-world survivors aboard a rival second train. Its name is Big Alice. And though the train is attached behind Snowpiercer at the start of season two (which premiered January 25), it’s front and center of the action.
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On TNT s Snowpiercer , Sean Bean plays the mysterious character of Mr Wilford. He is worshipped as a savior by most of the train s occupants, except the Tailies . Only Hospitality chief , Melanie Cavill, who is the true brains behind the train, knows the truth about him he is a fraud who became the face of the train while hiring her to work behind the scenes as he collected investments for the train.
Melanie thought he was dead along with her daughter, Alexandra Cavill, But at the end of Season 2, we get to know that Sean Bean s Mr Wilford character is very much alive and he has returned with Alexandra after doing a number on her brain to turn her against her mother. Sean has often played such complicated characters on screen-some noble, some wicked. But they have all been larger-than-life men-from Boromir in Lord of the Rings to Ned Stark in Game of Thrones- his two most iconic roles. He is also a meme now beca
A train divided. A future derailed.
Snowpiercerseason 1 ended with a twist that revealed the identity of not just serial killer but a psychopath that sets up major conflicts of season 2 and immediately turns life aboard the Great Ark Train upside down.
L.J. Folger, the daughter of lawyer Lilah and Robert Folger, is the picture of perfection and the envy of most. in season one she is living the life of luxury in the uptrain with her parents in a First Class carriage. But behind her warm facade lies a true mastermind, the person behind the serial murders on
Snowpiercer committed by her bodyguard and boyfriend Erik Sotto.