Snowpiercer ปฏิวัติฝ่านรกน้ำแข็ง (2020)

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Snowpiercer ปฏิวัติฝ่านรกน้ำแข็ง เป็นซีรี่ย์ฝรั่ง ปี 2020

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Snowpiercer is an American post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller television series that premiered on May 17, 2020, on TNT. It is based on both the 2013 film of the same name, directed by Bong Joon-ho, and the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette, from which the film was adapted.

The series follows the passengers of the Snowpiercer, a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe carrying the remnants of humanity seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland. The series questions class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival. Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs star alongside Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Iddo Goldberg, Susan Park, Katie McGuinness, Sam Otto, Sheila Vand, Mike O'Malley, Annalise Basso, Jaylin Fletcher, Lena Hall and Roberto Urbina. Steven Ogg, Rowan Blanchard and Sean Bean joined the main cast in the second season, both Chelsea Harris and Archie Panjabi joined the main cast in the third season and both Clark Gregg and Michael Aronov joined the main cast in the fourth season.

While in development at TNT for over three years, the series faced numerous production issues and delays arising from creative differences between the series' producers and the network. The series remained in development hell until May 2019, when it was announced that it would instead air on TNT's sister network TBS in the second quarter of 2020 and that it had already been renewed for a second season. However, in September 2019, the decision to change networks was reversed.

Prior to studio shutdowns that occurred due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, most of the second season's production was completed. The second season premiered on January 25, 2021. In January 2021, the series was renewed for a third season, which premiered on January 24, 2022. In July 2021, the series was renewed for a fourth season. In June 2022, it was announced that the fourth season would be its last. In January 2023, it was announced that the fourth season would not air on TNT and was in the process of moving elsewhere. In March 2024, it was announced that AMC had picked up the fourth and final season, which premiered on July 21, 2024, and the series concluded on September 22, 2024.

Series overview

Snowpiercer is set in 2026, seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland due to ecocide following the launch of a chemical compound called CW-7 that aimed to cool the rapidly warming Earth, and follows the remnants of humanity who have taken shelter on a perpetually moving luxury train. Designed and built by the eccentric billionaire Mr. Joseph Wilford, the train consists of 1,001 carriages and circles the globe 2.7 times per year. The constant motion of the train provides energy and prevents the passengers from freezing as well. Since the catastrophe, the train's population has become rigidly separated by class, caught up in a revolutionary struggle against the strictly imposed social hierarchy and unbalanced allocation of limited resources. The show explores issues of class warfare, social injustice, and the politics of survival.

Season 1

Seven years after an apocalyptic event known as the Freeze, the last known survivors of humanity travel aboard Snowpiercer, the 1,001 car Great Ark Train built by Joseph Wilford of Wilford Industries. Although Wilford is believed to be controlling the train from the Eternal Engine, this is a myth perpetrated by Head Engineer Melanie Cavil in order to maintain order. In reality, Melanie abandoned Wilford at boarding, and he is presumed to be dead.

When a series of murders occur, Melanie enlists the help of Andre Layton, a Chicago homicide detective before the Freeze and the leader of the unticketed stowaways living in the tail of the train – dubbed the Tailies – to solve the murders. In secret, Layton uses the opportunity to prepare for his revolution to take control of the train. What begins as a revolution turns into a full-scale war between the classes when First Class rebels learn of Melanie's secret. With Melanie's help, Layton prevails and takes control of the train, only to have Wilford arrive on a 40 car long supply train known as Big Alice, bringing Snowpiercer to a stop in the ruins of Chicago.

Season 2

An initial confrontation with Wilford's forces ends in a draw, leaving Snowpiercer and Big Alice permanently linked. In addition, Melanie's daughter Alex is revealed to be still alive and with Wilford. With both sides unable to take the other train by force, a game of political intrigue plays out as Layton and Wilford fight for control over Snowpiercer. Melanie discovers evidence that CW-7, the chemical that caused the Freeze, is breaking up in the atmosphere, suggesting that the planet is warming much sooner than expected and she leaves the train to perform research on her theory.

Wilford eventually succeeds in taking control of Snowpiercer, leaving Melanie behind to die. However, Layton and several of his allies escape, destroying the Aquarium Car and allowing them to steal the first ten cars of the train in order to go back for Melanie. They recover Melanie's data, but find her gone, having walked out into the Freeze to die after running out of supplies. Melanie's data shows that the planet is indeed warming, with 7 promising warm spots, creating hope for a life outside of the train.

Season 3

Six months later, Snowpiercer has become a 10 car long pirate train while Big Alice has become a 1,023 car sub-zero "rolling gulag." Layton and his allies aboard Snowpiercer search the locations indicated by Melanie's data for a habitable location while his remaining allies on Big Alice mount a rebellion against Wilford. Although Layton's search proves to be mostly fruitless, he discovers a survivor named Asha and has a vision suggesting that the last warm spot in the Horn of Africa might be suitable to build a New Eden. Layton and Wilford engage in a battle that ends with Layton seizing control of both trains and imprisoning Wilford. In order to sell people on traveling to the Horn of Africa, Layton has Asha lie that he found her there.

As the trains travel to New Eden, Layton has to deal with becoming a new father and attempts on his life by his former friend and ally Pike. At the same time, Wilford survives an attempt on his own life and briefly struggles with his mortality and his future. After a coma dream featuring a dystopian future for Snowpiercer, Layton realizes that his New Eden vision was a hallucination brought on by oxygen deprivation and loses faith. Asha sacrifices herself to save Snowpiercer from a cloud of toxic gas and encourages Layton not to give up, renewing his faith.

At the end of the season, Wilford deduces that Melanie is still alive and Snowpiercer rescues her. Melanie's concerns about New Eden leads to the exposure of Layton's lie, a new conflict brewing aboard the train, and the escape of Wilford. Layton and Melanie resolve their differences once and for all and band together to banish Wilford from Snowpiercer. The passengers are then given a choice between continuing on Snowpiercer with Melanie or taking a chance on going to New Eden on Big Alice with Layton. The rough track derails Big Alice upon arrival, but New Eden proves to be habitable. Three months later, Melanie spots a rocket launching and exploding in the distance.

Season 4

The rocket launch proves to be a trap and Snowpiercer is hijacked by soldiers from the International Peacekeeping Forces led by Admiral Anton Milius. The train is brought to the Silo, a military bunker in Djibouti, where Doctor Nima Rousseau reveals to Melanie that his research team has developed a compound called Gemini that will cause CW-7 to break up and end the Freeze. Nima's research is the source of New Eden's warm spot, but he requires Snowpiercer to spread Gemini around the world. Melanie agrees to retrofit the train and work on the project, but Milius and the IPF turn Snowpiercer into a virtual labor camp for the passengers.

Nine months later, New Eden has become a thriving community led by Ruth Wardell, Layton having stepped down in favor of a democratically elected town council. However, the peace is shattered by the kidnapping of Layton's daughter Liana by the IPF and the murder of his ex-wife Zarah. With the support of the people, Layton takes Big Alice after Snowpiercer, leading to Layton and his girlfriend Josie being taken captive at the Silo where Wilford is revealed to be the mastermind behind Liana's kidnapping. After his allies escape with Big Alice and a number of rescued Snowpiercer passengers, Layton forms a reluctant alliance with Wilford to rescue Liana and take down Milius. In a final confrontation with Layton, Wilford kills himself, but not before revealing that Nima is the one who had created CW-7 and caused the Freeze. At the same time, the people of New Eden investigate a series of strange happenings, including the disappearance of Sam Roche, finding a severed hand in the hills and the Snowpiercer passenger it belongs to, ghostly voices heard by Oz in the mountains, and finally the revelation that the IPF has planted bombs to bury the town. Roche later reappears just in time to rescue Layton's family, having been captured by the IPF before managing to escape.

Nima takes control of Snowpiercer, ignoring Melanie's warnings that her data reveals that Gemini will cause atmospheric erosion and bring an end to all of the remaining life on the planet. Needing Big Alice in order to launch his rocket Icebreaker, Nima lays siege to New Eden. Although Nima succeeds in stealing the train at great cost, Layton and many New Eden residents board Snowpiercer in turn and foil Nima's attempts to bury the town in an avalanche. Inciting a rebellion amongst the remaining passengers, Layton, Melanie and their allies confront Nima in a final battle for the future of the planet. Although Nima realizes the error of his ways too late to stop the rocket launch, Alex's sabotage of Icebreaker prevents an apocalyptic disaster.

Afterwards, everyone decides to settle at New Eden, although it's unknown how long the warm spot will last for with data suggesting that it may not be viable forever due to the damage that CW-7 did to the atmosphere while creating it. As everyone celebrates, a patch of flowers is shown growing on a distant mountainside, suggesting that the Earth is already warming on its own and life is returning to the planet.

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