US foreign policy, the show reminds us, is intimately tied to United States’ growing drug problem, both in terms of supply and demand.
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Just as quickly, though, Snowfall tracks just how this connects to Franklin and Lucia’s story: bags full of cocaine from airplanes coming from Central America drop in the Mexican desert where they’re smuggled through Lucia’s produce company, pass through Teddy, and later into Franklin’s hands where it’s cooked into crack to be sold out of an ice cream truck in his neighborhood.
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In fact, the opening scene of season two is a series of TV news clips from the era showing Ronald Reagan talking to the American people “about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States” and his need to get Congress to continue approving their funding of rebel groups in the area. That’s right, if you wanted a mini-history lesson on the Reagan administration’s wholly illegal meddling in that Central American country’s politics via their support of the Contras, this crack origin story is here to deliver it for you. But Singleton’s drama also has us follow CIA operative Teddy (Carter Hudson), whose secret drug ring funds insurgents in Nicaragua. The main character may be Damson Idris’ Franklin, a young African-American weed dealer who soon starts moving cocaine and later crack through his neighborhood. In the vein of that other drug war period drama Narcos, it also gives audiences a look at the global scope of drug dealing. In fact, after catching the New York City red carpet premiere of that very first episode, I couldn’t shake off the way what I’d watched on the big screen was speaking to the news I’d just been reading earlier that day.įor Snowfall doesn’t just follow Lucia’s ascent to drug kingpin (like a 1980s Queen of the South). Therein lies what makes this FX show, created and produced by legendary director John Singleton ( Boyz n the Hood), so unexpectedly timely. But that move to think broadly about the social repercussions that crack can and will have on minority populations ends up being prophetic. It’s clear she’s thinking mostly of empowering herself. Lucia may be deluded into thinking growing a drug empire in Los Angeles is a way to empower Mexican-Americans. Yet it speaks precisely to how the period drama about the rise of crack cocaine reminds us that the history of United States in the late-20th century is the history of drugs. Taken out of context, Lucia’s words all but demand a laugh. Ensuring we have a voice that cannot be ignored.” That’s why she’s so focused on getting a start on this new endeavor: “I believe this drug is the future,” she intones. Even as they’re dropping racial slurs (who needs the n-word when you can use “mayates”?) about their business rivals, the conversation turns to what really concerns Lucia Villanueva ( Emily Rios): her people.
Instead it just features two Mexican-American women talking business. It doesn’t involve guns or violence, though there’s plenty of that in this 1980s Los Angeles-set show. There’s a moment in the first episode of the second season of Snowfallthat stuns for its outlandishness.
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