Snowpiercer
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We still dont know exactly whats happened to Mr. Wilford.
But how did he survive?
And make his way to a second train?
Do not build him up in your minds into something he isnt.
Under her breath, Ruth adds, A great man.
Branding, it turns out, will get you everywhere.
Snowpiercerhas spent its first season dismantling the cult of Wilford.
Most of his successes, we learn, are actually Melanies.
She built the train.
She saved humanity, dammit.
This puts both Layton and Melanie in precarious positions.
Thats how a heavily biased meritocracy works, anyway.
(In a good bit of self-referentiality, Melanie ends this season in that same exact place.)
but the idea works.
Meanwhile, one of the shows best exchanges takes place inside, as Ruths ideology comes crashing into Laytons.
Ruths indignation (played off so superbly by Alison Wright) is a wonder to behold.
Teal, she practically screeches, is the color of diplomacy!
Im a dignitary, she insists.
Yeah I feel that, Layton offers.
But who is this emissary?
Its Alexandra (Rowan Blanchard) and she has one important question: Where is my mother?
Well, shes out in the snow.
