Snowfall
Grew the BeardSeason 1 rated 7.7. From season 3 on it settled around 8.4.
Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 10/10Antihero leadA protagonist doing bad things you can't stop watching.This show: 9/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 9/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 9/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10Addiction & viceSubstance abuse and self-destruction up close.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Damson IdrisCarter HudsonSergio Peris-MenchetaIsaiah JohnAmin JosephAngela Lewis
Written by
Eric AmadioDave AndronJohn Singleton
Starring
Damson IdrisCarter HudsonSergio Peris-MenchetaIsaiah JohnAmin JosephAngela Lewis
Written by
Eric AmadioDave AndronJohn Singleton
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Snowfall Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.4 | |
| S2 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 9.0 | |
| S3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.9 | 9.3 | 9.1 | 7.1 | |
| S4 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.9 | 9.3 | 9.0 | |
| S5 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 7.4 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 8.3 | 9.5 | |
| S6 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 9.2 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 8.7 | 9.1 |
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About
"A city's rise and fall, one deal at a time"
Set in early-1980s South Central Los Angeles, Snowfall follows a young, ambitious street dealer whose rise intersects with a CIA operative, a Mexican wrestling promoter's family, and the gangs who will soon flood the city with crack cocaine. It's a sprawling, slow-cooking crime saga more interested in systems and consequences than shootouts, carried by a magnetic lead performance and a real sense of time and place. Early seasons take patience to build momentum, but the show deepens considerably, turning into a genuinely tragic character study of ambition curdling into ruin.
Watch it for
the patient, character-driven portrait of ambition curdling into tragedy amid a city's unraveling.
Maybe skip if
you need immediate momentum; the first season is a slow, deliberate setup before it clicks.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
All Seasons
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Season 12017
7.717K107h 56m
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Season 22018
8.213K107h 18m
Season 2 enters 1984, with everyone working toward their ultimate goals of money, power, and influence amid the Los Angeles crack cocaine epidemic.
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Season 32019
8.214K107h 30m
In Season 3, crack cocaine is spreading like wildfire through South Central Los Angeles, continuing its path of destruction and changing the culture forever.
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Season 42021
8.512K107h 38m
In season four, Franklin tries to regain control over his business.
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Season 52022
8.312K107h 27m
Set in the summer of 1986, Franklin Saint and his entire family are rich beyond their wildest dreams, on the verge of having everything they've ever wanted... right as the ground begins to fall out from under their feet. The sudden and tragic death of basketball star Len Bias makes the rock cocaine epidemic front-page news, the target of both Democrat and Republican lawmakers. Law enforcement is on a warpath and the militarization of the L.A.P.D. continues as police and politicians decide the only way to deal with this growing scourge is through force - and the creation of the new C.R.A.S.H. (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) units. The streets of South Central Los Angeles have never been so dangerous as the Saint family navigates the police, the warring gangs and the CIA.
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Season 62023
8.714K108h 23m
It’s October 1986 in this sixth and final season, as civil war threatens to destroy the Saint family. Franklin is desperate and forced to rob his Aunt Louie and Uncle Jerome after being wiped out by former CIA officer Teddy McDonald. Meanwhile, Louie has taken over Franklin’s role as Teddy’s sole buyer, undercutting her nephew and creating a competing empire in the process. Franklin is now faced with losing everyone he loves and everything he’s built, and coming through it all will mean out-maneuvering the KGB, the DEA and the CIA, as well as avoiding the LAPD’s fully militarized, fully corrupt, C.R.A.S.H units.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Damson Idris Franklin Saint
Carter Hudson Teddy McDonald
Sergio Peris-Mencheta Gustavo 'El Oso' Zapata, Gustavo Zapata
Isaiah John Leon Simmons
Amin Joseph Jerome Saint
Angela Lewis Aunt Louie
Michael Hyatt Cissy Saint
Gail Bean Wanda Bell
Kevin Carroll Alton Williams
Alon Aboutboul Avi Drexler
Crew
Eric Amadio
Dave Andron
John Singleton
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