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T2 WHATS UP! July 12 - 18, 2020 BY SARAH PASSINGHAM TV Media I t can be hard to imagine a completely frozen-over Earth in the middle of a sweltering July, but that is the catapult of the story be- hind the new sci-fi series, "Snowpiercer." A new episode airs Sunday, July 12, on TNT. The last surviving humans on the planet all boarded the 1,001-car-long, super-speed train, Snowpiercer, before the Earth became inhospitably cold after an ill-advised at- tempt to cool the effects of global warming went horribly wrong. At the final boarding call for passengers, people without tickets rushed the train, violence broke out be- tween those desperate for sur- vival and the guards of the Snowpiercer, and a handful of those desperate souls staked their claim on the final car- riage of the train, becoming Snowpiercer's "Tailies." Subjected to abhorrent treatment under a strictly en- forced class system, the Tailies are given the bare minimum necessary to survive. They are fed disgusting, constantly shrinking rations and treated as less than human by those who enforce the status quo. Tailies with special skills are selectively chosen as needed to ascend through the train for whatever jobs need doing for the upper classes, and those that are returned to their home car bring with them in- tel about the rest of the train. Seven years into the train's never-ending journey, Tailies have banded together to orga- nize a revolution to force their oppressors to improve their living conditions. Andre Lay- ton, portrayed by Daveed Diggs ("Black-ish"), is the leader of this revolution, and when he is unexpectedly plucked out of the last car to investigate murders in the up- per classes, the Tailies enact his planned takeover without him. As a former homicide detec- tive, Layton investigates a se- ries of murders that the First Class was wholly unprepared to handle. Layton is surveilled at a distance by the mysterious Jennifer Connelly stars in "Snowpiercer" Cold war continued on page T10 TV FEATURE