#Oso snowfall crack#

Lucia and her partners are working the drug trade from a different angle, already in deep with powerful crime families and dealing with quantities large enough to get them in serious trouble from the law or those who want what they have.įinally, there’s Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson), a CIA desk jockey stuck pushing papers until one of his agents overdoses after a particularly intense night of sampling his own product. Lucia and Pedro hire a Mexican wrestler nicknamed Oso ( Sergio Peris-Mencheta), and, well, things don’t go exactly as planned. Second, there’s Lucia Villanueva ( Emily Rios), another young drug entrepreneur who, working with her cousin Pedro (Filipe Valle Costa), conspires to rob her uncle, one of the most popular drug lords in town. After crossing paths with a vicious cocaine dealer named Avi ( Alon Aboutboul), Franklin starts to deal the hard stuff, getting deeper into a criminal underworld that he’s smart enough to navigate but could still easily get him killed. He has a supportive mother (the great Michael Hyatt) but she’s off trying to support the family whenever she can and Franklin is drawn to his more-criminal uncle Jerome ( Amin Joseph) and aunt Louise (Angela Lewis). kid who’s smart enough to realize that slinging weed isn’t going to guarantee that he doesn’t end up like his father, homeless on the street. When you pull apart this complex show, it’s really about three people from very different backgrounds and with very different skill sets whose lives are forever altered by the draw of the drug trade.įirst, there’s Franklin Saint (Damson Idris), an L.A.

#Oso snowfall crack#

“Snowfall” has been billed as the story of the crack epidemic in 1983 Los Angeles and what it did to the black community there, but that’s underselling the scope of this piece, one that tells multiple intersecting stories about people caught up in something much greater than they’ve experienced before.