Should you watch Snowfall?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Snowfall
Series · 2017
Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.
The sides of Snowfall
- A young dealer in 1983 Los Angeles
- The start of the crack epidemic
- A CIA operation behind the drugs
Snowfall is good for you if…
- you like watching Franklin Saint build a drug empire.
- you like 1980s Los Angeles at the start of the crack epidemic.
- you like a smart kid you watch turn into something worse.
Snowfall is bad for you if…
- you can't stand violent drug-war killings.
- six seasons is too much for you.
About: ambition · family · the American dream
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