Also this week a new review of Snowpiercer 3the original show Netflix based on the film of the same name by Bong Joon-Ho. During the last review we had said how difficult it was to talk fully about this series without making spoilers, but we have not revealed the ending of the third episode anyway. Final that could very well have been that of last season: the capture of Wilford from Layton.
The game between the two trains is Snowpiercer and the Big Alice, in fact, it ended (at least for now) with the rather overwhelming victory of the first over the second. Between parallel tracks and lost deaths among frozen landscapes around the world, the two trains had searched for each other, trying to overwhelm each other and win a battle of both strength and diplomacy. Layton’s strategy had won above all thanks to the moles still present on the Big Alice, and now the viewer who is also familiar with the original film can only ask: but how will Wilford be resurrected, now that he is in a cage, if in the film he is stronger than never? Good question.
A question that leads us to episode number 4 and review 3 of Snowpiercer 3: let’s give the numbers, a bit like every now and then scriptwriters do. Yeah, because when you are in the third season prequel of a film, where the story is already on track (not surprisingly) and must lead to the incipit of the film itself. Given that one has already been announced fourth season and that there are so many episodes missing to get to that point, how do you fill 45 minutes per episode? Simple, with introspection. The good old psychological filler introspection, like this episode. True, the story goes on and also in an interesting way in some ways. In fact, we discover that Wilford remains in a cage, but that he is still indispensable for the Snowpiercer, which in the meantime has lengthened to 1029 carriages, so as not to miss anything.
An obstacle shows up on the road of the perpetual train and the driver begins to move back and forth to facilitate the descent of Alex to remove it, accompanied by the other driver (stuff that if they die, the only driver left inside would have to work 24-hour shifts). Wilford realizes where the train is from the last movements he has heard and also the identity of that obstacle: old wagons of the train itself, previously abandoned and containing former travel companions now deceased, voluntarily killed by Wilford himself.
Snowpiercer 3, the review of an episode filler
Alex is then forced to walk among the dead, looking for a way to move the carriages, and Wilford understands this. He doesn’t want Alex to experience those moments, he is sorry, as if she were actually her real daughter (even though she was the one of Melanie, from which he practically subtracted it). A moment of introspection not bad for Wilford, which is accompanied by moments of… visions? Alex sees her mother Melanie. He sees her everywhere and talks to her. He suggests what to do with her, even makes her nostalgic for her adoptive father Wilford and many beautiful things. I mean, not exactly beautiful. Yes, because the only function of all these visions, to which various flashbacks are added, is solely and exclusively that of lengthening the broth: in short, filling those 45 minutes. At the end of the episode, in fact, we will discover that not much has changed compared to the first minute, apart from some side events: Pike and Ruth (the only interesting character of this season) who do particular things, let’s say; Roche who wakes up from the drawers and makes rash and completely meaningless gestures; Zarah expecting Layton’s son, but doing just as many nonsensical things.
However, in fact, the journey around the corner of the world, in Africa, perhaps still hot, had just begun and is already wedged into an episode little more than an end in itself. We give you the appointment next week for a new review of Snowpiercer 3hoping for a better episode.
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