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Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 4 review: Alex comes face-to-face with ghosts of past

Enroute to New Eden, Snowpiercer comes across three train cars that Wilford had abandoned years ago, as part of his cull to save the rest.

3.0/5

Prathibha Joy

Feb 15, 2022

A still from Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 4

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Story: Snowpiercer’s journey to ‘New Eden’ is delayed when the train runs into a blockade – three cars, which, as Alex realizes where the ones that Wilford let go off years ago, when he wilfully culled some of the crew of Big Alice on the basis of their physical and mental stamina, as well as skill sets, to ensure the survival of the rest.

The cars are locked to the track and the system has to be manually disengaged, to allow Snowpiercer to gently nudge them out of the way. Alex volunteers to head out for the two-man mission with Ben, but it’s not only to put her engineering skills to best use, but to quite literally confront ghosts of her past – one of the cars is where Alex lived, and left her best friend Shilo behind in the dead of the night, when Wilford came for her.

Review: So, after three action-packed episodes and everyone back onboard one single train, it was time to take the foot off the gas, quite literally. Snowpiercer has run into a traffic jam – three cars blocking the track and while Ben and Alex set off to clear it, there’s precious little that the others onboard the train can do than work on their personal issues.

Pike, as we’ve seen earlier, has trouble accepting Layton’s leadership, and he makes that abundantly clear yet again, telling Ruth that it ought to be her leading the people. Layton’s got even more trouble to deal with – there’s Asha, who still has trouble coming to terms with being on Snowpiercer and the lie about New Eden she’s now telling for Layton, then there’s the issue of the genetic experimentation that Zarah allowed to be done on his unborn baby, and, of course, the simmering tension between him and Pike.

Layton’s biggest problem, though, crops up when Ben and Alex can’t figure out how to disengage the locking system and need Wilford’s help after all. But he’s indisposed at the moment – turns out Roche had an axe to grind over the death of his wife and pumped Wilford’s heart full of the chemical used to put people under in the drawers. Alex realises that she can work it out, but in doing so, it also becomes painfully obvious to her that just as much as she hates Wilford for his hand in her mother Melanie’s death, she loves him for having taken care of her and taught her everything about the train. It’s complicated, you see.

Verdict: So, Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) is back, but just not how we wished for, which also means she won’t be around much. Wilford’s (Sean Bean) in bad shape, but can pull through. Here’s hoping that the writers aren’t thinking of wrapping up the Wilford arc. Even if he’s not in charge, Wilford is the foe that Layton needs; the drama with Pike is not even remotely interesting enough to make up for the loss of Wilford. And finally, how about spilling the beans on who Asha (Archie Panjabi) really is and how she managed to survive so long.

Rs 149

Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 4 review: Alex comes face-to-face with ghosts of past

Prathibha Joy

A still from Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 4

Cast and Crew

Daveed Diggs

Karin Konoval

Lena Hall

Jennifer Connelly

Alison Wright

Aaron Glenane

Mickey Sumner

Mike O'Malley

Iddo Goldberg

Sheila Vand

Miranda Edwards

Sam Otto

Steven Ogg

Sean Bean

Kwasi Thomas

Ian Collins

RJ Fetherstonhaugh

Sakina Jaffrey

Brent Stait

Manoj Sood

Jaylin Fletcher

Tom Lipinski

Happy Anderson

Damian Young

Vincent Gale

Jane McGregor

Ellie Harvie

Tom Kirk

Dylan Schmid

Archie Panjabi

William Stanford Davis

Sarah Strange

Andre Tricoteux

Esther Ming Li

Grace Sunar

Matt Murray

Carolyn Yu

Doron Bell

Adrian Neblett

Gabriel Jacob-Cross

Steve Baran

Stefania Indelicato

Geraldine Chiu

Mike Li

Benjamin Charles Watson

Mark Margolis

Eric Bempong

Alex Kliner

Louis Lay

Colin Corrigan

Brennan Lloyd

Leon Ababio

Eric Pollins

Donna Christie

Carmel Amit

Anup Sehdev

Yvetta Fisher

Rohan Campbell

Michael Dobson

Mark Krysko

Mélania Solano

Anthony Joseph

Bradley Duffy

Cassandra Naud

Michael Hanrahan

Sam Ourabah

Kristie Sita

Lillian Lim

Phillip Mitchell

Ryan Robbins

Malcolm Sparrow-Crawford

Alec Santos

Natalie von Rotsburg

Taylor St. Pierre

Cynthia Loewen

Charles Desrosiers