Reviews

The Manhattan project was real but the characters and minor subplots are mostly fictional because they focus more on tensions and dynamics of living in a prison-type environment. If you can get over that, it is actually pretty good. If you were hoping to see a room of people just doing math on slide rulers all day, then you will be disappointed as science and math are the backdrop for the show. Those people looking for stories of the real scientists should probably read the books written on them.

The first episode was dry, but the third one was interesting. Hopefully, will keep getting better with each episode.

The characters from Snowpiecer are so uninteresting and two dimensional, that all dramatic death scenes are wasted. The only characters that were slightly interesting were the Koreans, and even then, not really.

The train travels around a world of plot holes as deep as the Grand Canyon. Every detail meant to impress the viewer about how grimly segregated this world is, is itself a plot hole or is obviously ripped off from classic movies (and yet failed). No one proofed the script. When one of the characters is announced to be the first to do something, it is clear several other characters did it before him. Even the food they are eating shouldn't be shocking because it's made on the train if there are messages inside and they've been on the train for so long.

If they've been on the train for over a decade, then all the useful people would have been taken from the back long ago, aside from the children. This has been done before in Nazi movies and only makes sense if the people just arrived on the train.

In closing, if you thought Twilight was a brilliant love story, perhaps you'll find this your speed as well.