Centered on Franklin Saint (Damson Idris), Snowfall has spent five seasons paralleling Franklin's growth from teenager to a man with his ascension from impressionable helper of his uncle Jerome Saint's (Amin Joseph) street cannabis business to the biggest seller of crack cocaine in all of Los Angeles. Set in 1980s Los Angeles during the cocaine epidemic, Snowfall is quite literally a coming of age story on crack.
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The show made leading man Damson Idris an international star and gave FX its most-watched show ever while not being afraid to make fans fall in love with characters right before they pump their chest full of bullets. "I really wanted to see the transition from what we saw in my first movie, Boyz n the Hood, to how it got that way," Singleton told Thrillistin 2017. Co-created by the late director John Singleton, who helmed such iconic movies as Boyz n The Hood, the show delivered classic gangster flick-level quality every week, bringing the uncompromising gruesomeness and sociological commentary on drug dealing and addiction of the best from the genre. Since July 2017, FX's drama series Snowfall has been a visceral reminder of how the war on drugs changed America forever. The Following story contains spoilers for Snowfall Season 5