23 TV Shows to Watch in May: Snowpiercer, The Eddy, Quiz, Ramy, The Great, Central Park, and more

Sci-fi/drama series debuts May 17 on TNT. First, it was graphic novel. Then, a well-reviewed 2013 film from future Parasite director Bong Joon-ho. Then it was set to become a TNT series. Then it was a TBS series. Then it was a TNT series again. Along the way, the original showrunner (Josh Friedman) and director (Scott Derrickson) left the show due to creative differences after filming a pilot (itself the result of a two-year development process). From the wreckage several years—and multiple premiere dates—later comes a very different adaptation from Orphan Black creator Graeme Manson. Like the film, the series is set in a frigid, post-apocalyptic future (as opposed to our apocalyptic present) aboard a perpetually moving train containing 1,001 cars that house Earth's remaining human population and where class differences play out in various ways. (For those of you keeping score at home, the series takes place seven years after the apocalyptic extinction event depicted in the comics, and eight years before the film.) Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly head the cast, and the show has already been renewed for a second season, which will add Sean Bean in a major role.