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This column contains spoilers and plot information about the FX series “Snowfall,” including details about the most recent episode that aired Wednesday night. If that type of thing bothers you, I suggest you stop reading right now.
There are only four episodes left in this final season of “Snowfall,” and I still have so many questions.
What really happened to Alton? What really happened with Peaches? Are we ever going to find out what happened with Lucia? Will Franklin get his money back? Is Teddy going to kill Franklin? Is Franklin going to kill Teddy? Is Veronique an op like we all think she is? Will Wanda and Lee make it? Will we ever see Mel again?
Ever since the show debuted in 2017, we have been captivated by the story of Franklin Saint (Damson Idris), an intelligent young man from South Central Los Angeles who unwittingly becomes a drug kingpin — going from selling bags of weed on the side with his Uncle Jerome to running a full-scale drug distribution operation.
Each week, we are transported back to Los Angeles in the 1980s. When we first get there, crack isn’t the big deal that it is now, but through Franklin’s enterprise, it becomes a main character in the show and the connecting thread between all the characters we meet along the way.
Freeway Ricky Ross — the well-known drug dealer whose criminal enterprise was allegedly tied to the CIA and the Iran-Contra affair and whose government name has been used by rappers including Philly’s Freeway and Florida’s Rick Ross — has said the character of Franklin Saint and the premise of “Snowfall” is based on real-life events from his life. While there are similarities between what happened with Ross in real life…
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