1 of 6 | Jennifer Connelly and Iddo Goldberg star in Season 4 of “Snowpiercer.” Photo courtesy of AMC
Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly says the fourth and final season of her post-apocolyptic train drama, Snowpiercer, wraps on a satisfying note, but leaves track ahead should the decision be made in the future to continue the story.
“it ends in an interesting place, but could also be interpreted as a beginning, if that’s what people decide they want to do with it,” Connelly told UPI in a recent phone interview. “I thought it was a fulfilling ending.” Advertisement
Co-starring Daveed Diggs, Sean Bean, Iddo Goldberg, Katie McGuinness, Mickey Sumner, Rowan Blanchard and Roberto Urbina, the show is based on a 1982 graphic novel and 2013 movie of the same name.
The series initially ran on TNT, which filmed the fourth season, but then declined to broadcast it as it shifted away from scripted drama programming.
AMC picked up the last episodes.
Connelly said she was surprised by TNT’s move not to air what it had already filmed and, for a while, she didn’t know if the episodes would ever see the light of day.
“I am really happy for everyone who worked hard on the show and for people who were excited about the final season, they’ll be able to watch it now,” she added. Advertisement
The series began in 2020 and the last new episode premiered in 2022.
It follows the crew and passengers of the titular train, which continuously circles a frozen world after a cataclysmic effort to stop climate change.
Season 3 ended with half of the passengers leaving the train to set up camp in a defrosting landscape they named New Eden.
Connelly’s Melanie stays behind with her fellow engineer and boyfriend Ben (Goldberg) to take care of the people on the train, while her brilliant daughter Alex (Blanchard) and heroic community leader Layton (Diggs) see what potential the outside world holds.
Plans are upended and lives imperiled, however, by the arrival of a team of “international peace-keeping forces” no one knew existed until they violently took over Snowpiercer.
“It’s kind of talking about things like climate change and resources, and how we share resources, and how we govern and how we deal with inequity, but it’s doing it in the format of an entertaining, sci fi-based, action show,” Connelly said.
“It’s fun to watch, but it also feels like it’s kind of tapping into some things that a lot of us are thinking about.” Advertisement
