![]() “Listen, I wouldn’t even be doing television right now if John hadn’t called me up and said, ‘I think I need you in this room. This week, Mosley grabbed headlines when Amblin Television announced it would be developing an Easy Rawlins series. Over time, Mosley joined the show’s writers room and got promoted to executive-produce. Mosley, who is best known for his Easy Rawlins novel series, and Singleton shared the experience of being born and raised in Los Angeles, but at different junctures. Singleton wanted him to be a consulting producer and work with co-creator Eric Amadio to bring more authenticity to the drama. Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Singleton ( Boyz N the Hood), who co-created Snowfall and died suddenly from a stroke a few months before the start of Season 3 in 2019, asked Mosley to come aboard. Franklin’s alternate life allowed us to get deeper into the characters, and also to say, ‘Things wouldn’t have been a whole lot easier, no matter what or where.'” “But as the Season 3 finale shows us, that’s not necessarily true, and life is difficult now and was then all over the place. “These people are dealing crack and cocaine in South Central, and because Snowfall is filled with crime and mayhem, it’s easy to think they could’ve made better choices and picked better things,” executive producer and writer Walter Mosley tells TVLine. Queen Latifah: 'Black Women Have Been Equalizing for Years and Years, From Hatshepsut to Kamala Harris' Premieres: Wednesday, Feb.The United States vs Billie Holiday Director Lee Daniels on Jazz Icon: 'Her Imperfection Is What Made Her Perfect' It's bleak and violent, and it's totally compelling TV. The first two episodes of the final season suggest that these characters, no matter how much they fight against their circumstances, are trapped by powers and structures so much stronger than them. Franklin is trying so hard to rebuild what he believes is an empire, a flailing Napoleon who fails to realize that he's been relegated to Saint Helena.Īnd really, that's the theme of the final season of Snowfall: inevitability and the inability to accept it. His kingdom is nothing compared to the machine he's working within. ![]() By the time Season 6 rolls around, he basically is… but only in his own world. Franklin, in the early going, thinks he can become a king. He creates this narrative of nobility around his drug empire, when really he's just offering up his own version of conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" capitalism. ![]() He begins the series believing that if drugs are going to infiltrate his neighborhood, then at least he's going to get a piece of the pie for himself he's not going to sit back and allow rich white folks to profit off of his community. The show has, of course, always been political, but there's something about the end being near, and all of us knowing just what's coming in terms of the War on Drugs and its lasting legacy, that makes the start of this season feel particularly poignant and stirring.Īngela Lewis, Amin Joseph, Snowfall Ray Mickshaw/FX ![]() The sixth and final season of Snowfall is fully immersed in the fallout of that betrayal and asks a lot of interesting questions about loyalty and freedom, not only in regard to the relationships that have formed through the show, but also in terms of what these characters own themselves, their communities, and their country. With nowhere to go, Franklin decided on the nuclear option, robbing Jerome ( Amin Joseph) and Aunt Louie ( Angela Lewis) and betraying his family. His plan to finally leave this life behind and focus on Veronique ( Devyn Tyler) and their unborn child was completely shattered. Teddy ( Carter Hudson) had seized all $73 million of his fortune, and there was nothing he could do. ![]() At the end of Snowfall's fifth season, Franklin Saint ( Damson Idris) found himself backed into a corner. ![]()
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