Snowfall (2017)

This is how crack began.

Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

Created by: Eric Amadio, Dave Andron, John Singleton

Starring: Damson Idris, Carter Hudson, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Michael Hyatt, Amin Joseph, Angela Lewis, Isaiah John, Devyn A. Tyler, Alejandro Edda, Gail Bean

Genre: Drama, Crime

Released: 2017-07-05

Seasons: 6

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Snowfall (2017): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• The series premiered on July 5, 2017, and concluded on April 19, 2023, after six seasons consisting of 60 episodes.
• A spin-off series titled The Drop: A Snowfall Saga, with Gail Bean and Isaiah John reprising their respective roles as Wanda Bell-Simmons and Leon Simmons, premiered on September 8, 2026.
• Outside of the United States, Snowfall premiered on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on October 8, 2017.
• According to executive producer Dave Andron, the show's writers worked with the premise that Webb's reporting was factual; however, he acknowledged that he did not "think there was any conspiracy to bring crack to the inner city or destroy a people."
• Damson Idris as Franklin Saint, a young drug kingpin and patriarch of The Family, a crew of crack cocaine producers/dealers based in South Central Los Angeles.
• Carter Hudson as Theodore "Teddy" McDonald / Reed Thompson, a CIA operative working undercover for the American government in the war against communism in Nicaragua.
• Emily Rios as Lucia Villanueva (seasons 1–2), the daughter of a Mexican crime boss and heiress to the Villanueva Cartel, a Mexican drug cartel.
• Sergio Peris-Mencheta as Gustavo "El Oso" Zapata, a former Mexican luchador employed as an enforcer for the Villanueva Cartel.

Source: Wikipedia

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