Snowpiercer
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I hope at some point inSnowpiercersomeone truly eats the rich.
(Just needed to get this off my chest, and now I can proceed.)
How exactly do they do it?
Maybetheywill be eaten by the jackboots?
A viewer can only dream.
did a few headfakes and then actually committed to launching its protagonists in new and intriguing directions.
Oh, and to call for public executions.
Except Zarah throws a baby-shaped wrench in his plans.
The tadpole-size fetus she betrayed Josie for, she tells him, is actually his.
One contraception-free rendezvous in the Night Car and now Layton is destined for fatherhood.
Finally, hes forced into a truly difficult decision.
Its the kind of choice, Melanie reminds him patronizingly, that leaders have to make.
Its the kind of choice, she not so subtly hints, that he hates her for making herself.
And finally, Layton loses a little of his shine.
(Daveed Diggs is halfway to an EGOT, dammit!)
Its her decision-making thats most fascinating, though.
(Well, besides her French denim chore coat and shimmering inky hair.
How does she know how to be so fashionably working class in a hurry?
Does this new hairstyle foretell a looser new attitude?
Cest magnifique, Mel!)
She plays on the information that only she has about the train, and converts it to her advantage.
Her altruism, however far-reaching, is tinged.
You knew Id have to cut them, he says, practically in tears.
Melanie remains sanguine: I knew the choice would be yours.
Its what we live with.
Which leaves us to wonder if Layton really has the stomach to take control of Snowpiercer in the finale.
Or if Melanie has him right where she wants him.
As for Ruth, whose fate is now uncertain, well, biscotti biscotti biscotti.
