Snowfall

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Season 1
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 5, 2017
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 36
  3. Negative: 8 out of 36
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  1. TravisFinn
    Jul 20, 2017
    6
    What sucks about this show is that it spreads itself too thin. I don't care at all for Teddy's or Gustavo's plotlines. They're uninteresting characters, plain and simple. What's even worse is that these plots tear down a potential one; that being Franklin's, which should be the focal point of the entire show to be honest. However, instead the potential of his story is constantly boggedWhat sucks about this show is that it spreads itself too thin. I don't care at all for Teddy's or Gustavo's plotlines. They're uninteresting characters, plain and simple. What's even worse is that these plots tear down a potential one; that being Franklin's, which should be the focal point of the entire show to be honest. However, instead the potential of his story is constantly bogged down by the other character's days splitting into his own and not leaving enough time or momentum for a fully satisfying episode.… Expand
  2. DavidDaniel
    Dec 25, 2017
    4
    Snowfall is predictable and way too slow. The cast is solid. This music choices are pretty good as well, but that doesn't make up for the fact there is no reason to tune in next week.
  3. SimboTheKing
    May 18, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I think that snowfall is pretty good but it is very obvious where it draws its influences from. It sometimes feels like a **** 'the wire' with elements of many other crime shows such as 'Breaking Bad' etc.

    In certain episodes events are straight up just left out and it relies on exposition to explain the scenario (the plane crash for example).

    However, the finale kinda saves it as it very deftly and neatly ties together all of the characters and it has made me more excited to watch the next season than I initially was.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#99 Most Discussed TV Season of 2017

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Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 38
  3. Negative: 1 out of 38
  1. The Huffington Post
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Jul 6, 2017
    70
    Created by John Singleton with Eric Amadio and Dave Andron, Snowfall is a good-looking production. It gets its music from turntables and boomboxes and it reminds us that South Central Los Angeles, for all its notoriety, has a lot of tree-lined streets and perfectly decent houses with front yards. It also reminds us that crack cocaine was not so much a brand new problem as the consequence of several larger and longer-simmering problems.
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  2. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Jul 6, 2017
    50
    The show is engrossing and well acted. ... Yet little about this series feels fresh or urgently electrifying. [10-23 Jul 2017, p.13]
  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Jul 6, 2017
    80
    The most striking thing about Snowfall, though, is that it never seems less exciting, less special, than when it’s doing the standard Scorsese/Tarantino thing and putting groups of treacherous men (and a few women) at cross purposes, then watching them threaten and bluff each other until the guns come out (or don’t).
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