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. Skeletor71
    Jul 6, 2017
    10
    How does this get low reviews from the critics? This just oozes coolness. I feel like riding around in GTA San Andreas listening to the oldies station. I'm not that deep into the story yet, but I'll definitely keep watching just for the atmosphere alone.
  2. LamontRaymond
    Jul 6, 2017
    8
    It's much better, more textured than the critics have lead us to believe, but mostly in the Saint storyline. The CIA angle needs to be much more fleshed out, and the Isreali distributor angle has promise. It almost feels like an amalgamation of Narcos and Boys N The Hood. The latter was excellent, but the former just went nowhere, so I'm hoping this gets better. The music is terrificIt's much better, more textured than the critics have lead us to believe, but mostly in the Saint storyline. The CIA angle needs to be much more fleshed out, and the Isreali distributor angle has promise. It almost feels like an amalgamation of Narcos and Boys N The Hood. The latter was excellent, but the former just went nowhere, so I'm hoping this gets better. The music is terrific in it, and most of the acting (save for the CIA agent dude) is also very good.… Expand
  3. Kwasie
    Jul 6, 2017
    9
    The show is stylish and already shows promise of some very interesting storylines. I love the fact that we are presented with three wildly different perspectives of the same issue (the burgeoning cocaine epidemic). It's early on, but I'm impressed with the writing, acting, and the overall feel of the show. John Singleton's influence is definitely felt; especially in the scenes andThe show is stylish and already shows promise of some very interesting storylines. I love the fact that we are presented with three wildly different perspectives of the same issue (the burgeoning cocaine epidemic). It's early on, but I'm impressed with the writing, acting, and the overall feel of the show. John Singleton's influence is definitely felt; especially in the scenes and atmosphere surrounding South Central L.A.… Expand
  4. dell221
    Jul 6, 2017
    10
    only see one ep and this show seems like a classic already. might even be better than power. love this show they gotta make a season 2. can't wait for the next season .

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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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