Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 10 – “The Original Sinners”: Daveed Diggs as Andre Layton, Sean Bean as Mr. Wilford. Image Copyright Warner Media and TNT 2022. Snowpiercer ‘s third season draws to a close with “The Original Sinners”. Alliances are made and betrayed as the train races toward the Horn of Africa and Layton’s dream of New Eden. One second, quickly thrown together armies face off in an agricultural car, the next they’re hugging it out in the Night Car. Your hosts, Paul, Cat, and Inez, t...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 9: “A Beacon For Us All”. Sean Bean as Joseph Wilford. Image Copyright Warner Media and TNT 2022. Melanie’s back! But that doesn’t mean she’s just going to jump on board the New Eden train. Chaos ensues when passengers line up behind their leader of choice as Mr. Wilford reaches out to his loyalists. We discuss these plot points and more in this weeks’ podcast! Listen, rate, review, and subscribe to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen! And write in a...
Mar 22, 2022•54 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Snowpiercer Episode 308 “Setting Itself Right”. Daveed Diggs as Andre Layton and Sheila Vand as Asha. Copyright Warner Media 2022. So many characters to discuss and your intrepid hosts try and hit them all! We even manage to talk about Josie, despite not having any screen time this week – Or did she? One of the topics the hosts had to discuss was just who received LJ’s cheese grate skin graft? MAYBE Josie? We discuss and will have to wait to find out though… We discuss these plot points and more...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 7 “Ouroboros”. Sean Bean (Wilford) and Rowan Blanchard (Alex). Image copyright Warner Media 2022. In “Ouroboros”, we got to see into Andre’s psyche as the episode presented a dreamworld version of Snowpiercer. A “Dreampiercer”, if you will. In the podcast, Paul, Cat, and Inez take a stab at dream interpretation to bring you the possible symbolism behind the actions in Andre’s dream. Warning: none of the co-hosts are actually trained in dream interpretation, so let us...
Mar 08, 2022•47 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Snowpiercer Season 3 – Episode 306 “BORN TO BLEED” – Steven Ogg as “Pike”. Photograph by DAVID BUKACH. © and ᵀᴹ 2022. Warner Media, LLC. Passengers on Snowpiercer are no strangers to death. Every mile they pass by the frozen world outside their windows, they roll by vast graveyards filled with what remains of the world before they got on the train. Once aboard, regardless of their status as ticketed or not, they were given a chance to outrun death thanks to Mr. Wilford’s Engine Eternal. But outr...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 5 “A New Life”. Steven Ogg as Pike. Copyright 2022 by TNT and Warner Media. We’ll ring bells every hour on the hour until that darn baby is born, whether you like it or not! Paul, Cat, and Inez cover all aspects of Andre Layton’s first day as a father, including Pike’s weird turn as a chaos agent, Ben’s role as healer, Josie’s search for reliable companionship, and Alex’s complex feelings toward her father figure, Mr. Wilford. Warning: One of our hosts discusses a pa...
Feb 22, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Snowpiercer 304 “Bound By One Track”. Daveed Diggs as Andre Layton. Photograph by Robert Falconer. Image Copyright Warner Media 2022. Melanie Cavill is back! Kind of! TNT played a little trick on the legions of Snowpiercer fans by using clips of Melanie in the teasers for this week’s episode. They never actually said that she was back in flesh though, did they? So, we got head-versions from the perspectives of her daughter, Alex, and her mentor, the imprisoned Mr. Wilford. Throughout the episode...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Snowpiercer 303 “The First Blow”: Sean Bean, Sheila Vand, Roberto Urbina. Copyright Warner Media 2022. Photograph by DAVID BUKACH Andre Layton and his pirate train make their big play this week, but there’s drama up and down the line. Last week, we correctly predicted that Mr. Wilford would have a Plan B after his EMP was foiled. But a harpoon? We discuss the wisdom and possible outcomes Joseph might have intended for the harpoon (versus the near-disastrous outcome it actually had). We also disc...
Feb 08, 2022•57 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Snowpiercer 302 “The Last to Go”: Rowan Blanchard as Alex Cavill. Photo by David Bukach. Copyright 2022 TNT. Mr. Wilford always has something up his well-tailored sleeve, doesn’t he? Very much a no-risk / no-reward kind of guy, using an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) device -intentionally- against the world’s last piece of high technology would certainly have taken balls. And balls, ladies and gentlemen, is a topic where Mr. Wilford thinks of himself as something of an expert. Lots of -first-hand- ...
Feb 01, 2022•58 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Snowpiercer episode 301 – “The Tortoise and the Hare”: Daveed Diggs (Layton), Mickey Sumner (Till), Katie McGuinness (Josie). Image Copyright 2022 Warner Media and TNT. Two trains, one fast and hot, the other slow and cold. Our mechanical versions of “The Tortoise and the Hare” pick up six months after the events of season2’s finale with different missions. With an eye toward the future, Layton and his pirate train aboard Snowpiercer’s engine endeavour to carry on Melanie’s work by collecting im...
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Snowpiercer 209+210 Season 2 Finale We said, “Prepare to brace,” didn’t we? Holy crap, what a night of post-apocalyptic television! In this super-sized podcast, Cat, Inez, and Paul discuss the major plot points of our primary characters and what tonight’s events might mean going forward. Also, they recount their favorite moments from the season 2 finale, both episodes 209 and 210. To Paul’s surprise, no one picked the orgy in the 209 closing moments. Among the topics we cover: Javi’s fate and ou...
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Snowpiercer 208 The Eternal Engineer. Image by TNT. Copyright 2021. It only made sense, right? We’d been wondering all along what Icy Bob’s nefarious mission would be and this week we got our answer. Sabotage? Sure, but only as a stepping stone to Mr. Wilford’s true aims. He needed the people of Snowpiercer to need him. With the train on the verge of a massive shutdown (which he himself caused but no one in Andre Layton’s leadership care seems able to prove), Mr. Wilford swept in this week. With...
Mar 16, 2021•56 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Snowpiercer 207 “Our Answer for Everything”. Image by TNT. Copyright 2021. I’m starting to think that “Our Answer for Everything” is to run to the tail and start bashing skulls. That seems to be the only answer the upper classes of Snowpiercer want to accept for any given problem anyway. Cat, Inez, and I discuss a couple problems we had with this episode (like rushing to judgment in the breachmen murders) BUT overall, we really liked this episode. Ruth has been forced to hold a harsh mirror up t...
Mar 09, 2021•58 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Snowpiercer S2E6 Many Miles From Snowpiercer. Image by TNT Copyright 2021 Last week, we ended the podcast by saying we needed to catch up Melanie and her adventure at the research station. In Many Miles From Snowpiercer , the writers gave us more than we asked for by pairing Melanie’s harrowing trial of survival with flashbacks. In so doing, many questions have been answered and many blanks spots from the time surrounding the ark train’s departure have been filled in. Without spoiling the conten...
Mar 02, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Snowpiercer S2E5 “Keep Hope Alive”. Image by TNT. Copyright 2021. So much happened this episode! Cat, Inez, and I do our best to break down the major events in every main characters’ story, but this was a very dense episode. If we missed something, it’s only because we were so excited to get to the next character’s revelations! Stuff we talk about includes: Layton’s leadership and whether it’s faltering or if he’s just finally learning what Melanie already knew Ruth’s adjusted stance on lying to...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Snowpiercer 204 “A Single Trade” Unit 702700 12/18/19 ph: David Bukach Our first episode without Melanie (unless you count the ping), and the Snowpiercer gods treat us to something the team at Prepare to Brace has waited very patiently for – the backstory between Miss Audrey. If you tell me that you foresaw another Kevin-esque bathtub scene featuring Miss Audrey submissive to Mr. W, then I advise you to take your powers of prognostication someplace that could earn you some extra money. As podcas...
Feb 16, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Snowpiercer 203 Unit 11/18/19 ph: David Bukach Before Melanie can set off on her great odyssey, she’s going to need a few things. At this point, did anyone really expect Mr. Wilford to happily hand over his supplies without making a production out of it? Anyone that brings a throne to a negotiation is going to be trouble. You can stick that piece of advice in your pocket to use forever. Something you can’t hold on to forever is the fleeting time spent with loved ones. Even loved ones you kind of...
Feb 09, 2021•56 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Snowpiercer 202 Unit 11/7/19 ph: David Bukach As our newest host, Inez, says, “Smolder to Life,” is the “Holy Sh!t” episode! Someone once thought dead made her totally unforeseen return! But what will that mean for Layton (and Layton Jr.)? A valued employee of Wilford Industries and part of the Big Alice family took his last bath ever in the creepiest way possible! And Mother Earth herself has more to say on the matter of its supposed thousand year ice-age. In this podcast, we also discuss: Mr. ...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Snowpiercer 201 Unit 11/13/19 ph: David Bukach “A Tale of Two Trains” Welcome back to RIGHT where we left off just a few months ago, fellow passengers (both ticketed and tailie)! With Mr. Wilford’s Big Alice engine just having taken a giant chomp out of Snowpiercer’s rear-end, Andre Layton’s fledgling government and viewers alike have been on pins and needles awaiting their first glimpse of the man behind all those big Ws. When Sean Bean portrays that man, viewers form pretty gigantic expectatio...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Photo: Photograph by Justina Mintz That’s it for this season, passengers! What started out one track, jumped those rails and took us for an entirely different adventure than we first expected. The team here at Pod Clubhouse loves how this season turned out and can’t wait for TNT to crank out season 2! Wait a sec. Did someone say there’s another train? We joked about there being another cold-proof vehicle early this season, but we didn’t take that possibility too seriously. Then again, when they ...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Snowpiercer 109 Photo by: Justina Mintz. Copyright 2020 TNT Even though TNT gave us quarantine-bound viewers a gift in the form of a 2-hour finale, we’re releasing the final podcasts of the season as single episodes for episodes 9 and 10. Dig into episode 9 with Paul and Cat! Last episode may have been the revolution, but this one overflowed with suspense! There’s the whole issue of whether they’d actually kill Melanie. Then, there’s excitement surrounding her liberation, and finally her act of ...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Prepare to Brace! The Snowpiercer Podcast Ep 108 photo by: Justina Mintz. Copyright 2020 TNT. HBO: See, you save up your biggest fight – I mean the most brutal stuff you’re going to show all season – and put it in your next -to-last episode of the season. TNT: Hold my beer. That was intense, right? The coup uptrain beautifully distracted the jackboots from the actual revolution stirring downtrain. With Melanie’s firm hand and ruthless determination stuck behind bars, will Snowpiercer find itself...
Jul 06, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Snowpiercer Ep 107 photo by: Jesse Giddings Copyright 2020 by TNT Big, big stuff happened on the train tonight, folks. Josie, the beating heart of the tail, caretaker of the sick and ailing, Mile’s Tail Mom, and Andre’s main squeeze has been struck down at Melanie’s hand. Well, I mean the fatally paralyzing cold did most of the heavy lifting on that, but I think it’s fair to chalk up Josie’s death to Melanie. I wonder where in the Wilford Industries Hospitality handbook “torture by freezing” fal...
Jun 29, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Snowpiercer Ep 106 photo by: Justina Mintz Copyright 2020 TNT All aboard! But are you sure you really want to get on? I mean, this train can only run for about 7 years straight before it starts falling apart. Good thing the train’s designer also heads up the Hospitality department. As we learned in Snowpiercer Episode 106, she’s a champion multi-tasker. For an episode featuring the series’ most cinematic action sequences so far, we also received a fair amount of world-building and minor question...
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Snowpiercer S1E5 photo by Justina Mintz Copyright 2020 TNT. The passengers and staff of Snowpiercer were all shocked to learn that train detective Andre Layton (Daveed Diggs) had identified a suspect in the murder of Sean Wise. Although ruthless Eric the bodyguard may have performed the slicing and dicing, Andre, shortly before his unceremonious drawer-ing, believed Lila Folgers Jr. (or LJ if you’re nasty), to be the brains behind the madness. In this episode, Cat and Paul discuss what justice l...
Jun 15, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Daveed Diggs. Photograph by TNT How do you catch a killer on Snowpiercer? You hire a Train Detective, of course. What do you do when you actually find the killer? That’s when you pull out your ice axe ( I looked up what ice climbers use ) and take him out! Train justice for all and order prevails, right? Prepare to Brace! Rough track ahead! Not quite justice for all. Do you think if Melanie had laid out the “vacation” in the drawers between assignments, he would have cooperated? Or solved the cr...
Jun 08, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Snowpiercer Ep 103 ph: Justina Mintz Image copyright TNT 2020. Last episode we witnessed the night car’s various delights for up-train passengers. In this one, we saw Fight Night, an example of the depraved side of what passes for entertainment on Snowpiercer . I can’t wait to see what happens next week! Maybe a car dedicated to Cirque du Soleil, except the performers are never allowed to be out of character and always have to speak French (but no one else on the train speaks French). Plus, the ...
Jun 01, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Snowpiercer 102. Image copyright 2020 TNT. This episode, “Prepare to Brace,” inspired the title of our humble podcast. This episode’s big event, the avalanche which blew out the cow car, has made me reconsider the wisdom of train-based arks though. Ok, shoot me. When I heard that Mr. Wilford wanted a “significant arm” as retribution for the Tailies’ failed rebellion, my mind went straight to Strong Boy. After all, the best-fed Tailie had some pretty fearsome guns in Episode 1. Also, my poor, del...
May 25, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Snowpiercer- Ep 101 photo by: Justina Mintz. Copyright 2020. When the passengers of Wilford Industries’ Ark train, the magnificent Snowpiercer, hear, “Prepare to Brace”, they know to expect a bumpy ride. Podcast fans and high-concept sci-fi fans, now hear this – if you join Cat and Paul on this podcast series, we’ll do our best to smooth out those bumps for you. Based on a graphic novel that became a cult-classic Bong Joon Ho directed film in 2013, TNT’s Snowpiercer tells its own version of the ...
May 18, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 1
