Snowfall
The Monumental FX television series....
Man oh man have my family and I been waiting around patiently for the shoe to drop on this one.
And drop it did! As the two, back to back, hours season 6 premiered last night, THE FINAL SEASON I might add, of this stellar and award-winning program, the somewhat questionable brain-trustable circumstances (although, maybe not entirely untrue circumstances) of the show's, late and GREAT, co-creator John Singleton wallah Freeway Ricky Ross … oops! I've sinned and otherwised blasphemous in here already, and it ain't even Sunday!, BUT what it is, yet and STILL, is Black History Month. I'm so, so sorry. I do; literally, utterly, humbly apologize and seek y'alls forgiveness🙏💜💪.
But man oh man have we ever been waiting around for this one to get here!
We first started watching this show around the middle of the second season. And progressing forward-along with it. Emersing ourselves in the characters and the storylines of the hardscrabbled lives of Young Franklin Saint, played by the very cogent and intelligible Damson Idris, and his narrowly-missed-youth buddies Leon Simmons played by the magnetically engrossing Isaiah John and the solidly equal Malcolm Mays as Young Kevin Hamilton … the three South Central Los Angeles Youths who, in the 1980s, would start and build a fictitious drug empire with the HELP of American Central Intelligence Agency Operative Teddy McDonald played by Carter Hudson and Franklin's Closest Family and Friends, who'll be leaving us for good soon enough, but man oh man is this show ever-good!?
One could argue, at-length, that this closely knit, but dysfunctional family was doomed to failure where America's Central Intelligence Agency, the law enforcement community, and the drug trade is involved. So you'd think these youngsters and their people would’ve quit before things ever got started?! BUT they didn't. They stayed with it. Through it all. The ups and the downs. Through the sin and the betrayal and the outright lies they kept going, "and now its all over...."
Sadly, this season will be the swan song for this critically acclaimed television series. Many in the core cast have already moved on and are in FACT are doing other things; films, television dramas, art and music, though they remain a closely knit family. And I suspect they will remain a Family for some time to come.
I am gonna miss it most because it was and is a television program that didn't shy away from the TRUTH of the matter. Drugs, the drug trade and the law enforcement community, at best, do not at all care who or what it; hurts, mames or kills. Money and power, for whatever nefarious purposes, is the name of the game for them.
DEO VINDICE.