TNT’s Snowpiercer: A Fitting Reboot in the Strange Year that is 2020

These are our revolutions… In a time before Bong Joon-ho managed to make history by acquiring four different Oscars in one evening (a feat that only Walt Disney had ever achieved previously), he was out there making sure one of his movies made it to the big screen with minimal edits. The end result of his stalwart defense was 2013’s Snowpiercer, based off a 1982 French graphic novel. It featured a diverse, star studded cast featuring the ranks of Chris Evans (who had just been reintroduced to the world as Captain America), Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Go Ah-sung, John Hurt, and Ed Harris and (not unsurprisingly) was a poignant look at class warfare on a beautiful looking set piece that was a very, very, very large train. That was seven years ago though, and since the world has indeed shifted tracks to what feels like a darker timeline on a variety of levels. And one of the features of this time is a television adaptation of this movie based on this graphic novel about a world that has frozen over and the only remnants of humanity are still divided by literal classes where the rich feast, the workers toil thanklessly, and those in poverty are exploited and treated horribly in the name of some twisted balance. Which is to say, there are parallels to be drawn and entertainment to be had so long as everything’s handled correctly. And after watching the first season, I think it was. Source: IMBD The opening minutes of the pilot start out with an unex…