![]() There’s a little bit of Boogie Nights to it, too (In an interview with The Guardian, Singleton called it his “ghetto Game of Thrones.“) ![]() These different layers – the street-level dealer, the regional boss, the “Mr Big” behind the scenes, the lawman with his own agenda – give this series a genuine sense of scope. Then there’s Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson), a disgraced CIA agent who has a plan to get out of the agency’s doghouse by becoming an expert in the California drug trade. Emily Rios plays Lucia Villanueva, the Mexican-American pot kingpin who controls the territory where Franklin plans to do business, while Alon Moni Aboutboul is Avi Drexler, an Israeli crime boss who has connections and clients across Los Angeles and the world. The rest of the show pulls back to put the ironically named Saint family’s various enterprises into a bigger picture. ![]() Singleton and his co-creators Dave Andron and Eric Amadio spend a lot of time detailing the dynamics of their hero’s personal life, from the drug-dealing Uncle Jerome (Amin Joseph) who got him into the business, to the way that his seemingly upstanding mom makes most of her money working for a slumlord. Remember all those 1990s movies about young black men getting dragged into a life of crime – Juice, Fresh, Menace II Society, Straight Out of Brooklyn, New Jersey Drive and so forth? A good chunk of every Snowfall episode is a throwback to that era, following Franklin as he navigates the small-time gangster infrastructure of his own neighborhood, while trying to convince his mother Cissy (Michael Hyatt) that he’s one of the “good” kids on the block. It’s part Boyz n the Hood, part Goodfellas
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