And it shows how the bigger Franklin’s empire gets, the harder it is for him to control who gets his product and how they use it. He clicks his pager to his belt and checks his drawer to see an envelope with a birthday card from Melody reading: Franklin The last couple of months have been strange, but I couldn't stop myself giving you a card. Franklin is at home suiting up in a black dress suit. It is the thirty-first episode overall and season premier. The fact Franklin finds out about a death attached to Volpe moments after reading about Bias’s death is a national news publication is Snowfall showing us how the lives of celebrity athletes and affluent white kids are more valuable than the Black bodies the L.A. Re-Entry is the first episode of the the fourth season of Snowfall. Franklin finds out about the murder from a news report on TV, even though we’ve seldom seen the Black casualties of the drug game in L.A. Volpe is key to Franklin’s empire reaching beyond the inner city, but in the season five premiere, it brings more national attention to the drug trade in Los Angeles after one of Volpe’s white friend murders another young white man at Volpe’s cocaine-fueled house party. In Snowfall, Rob Volpe is a young white man Franklin enlists to help sell his cocaine in the predominantly white Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles without detection. government, especially given the racial makeup of the victims of his drug trade changing. But, the inclusion of Bias’s death in the season five premiere feels foreshadowing for Franklin being forced to defend his immense drug kingdom from the invading forces of the U.S.

Up until season five, Franklin’s biggest adversaries in the drug game have been other dealers. It effectively instituted a cultural war against Black people and has been commonly referred to as the Len Bias Law.

President Ronald Reagan signed into law The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which called for life imprisonment for anyone whose dealing of drugs led to the death of someone. Four months after Bias’s actual death swept the nation, U.S. It's very accurate I suppose but after everything, more often than not, I just felt sad and empty and I suppose that was the intention.The episode doesn’t delve deep into the ramifications of Bias’s death, but its repeated mentioning of it in the first half of the episode foreshadows what’s to come. He had so much and yet when it's over he decides to live in squaller. People still cared about him but he chooses to live the way he does and it just fills me sadness. Despite losing everything, despite his evil, he could have still come back. Sad that certain people died and despite Franklin being a smart, charismatic, brilliant and powerful leader he ends up the way he does and it fills me with such sadness. The actors and everyone involved were absolutely incredible but what I felt most about the ending (and I hope that I don't give too much away) was that after everything, I just felt sad. It somehow kept up momentum and didn't get worse which is what a lot of shows end up doing once it changes hands. What's refreshing is that when work is passed over, The late great John Singleton created this - after his passing, it didn't get worse. Saddened by how evil some of the people were but somehow you understood them. I was surprised, shocked and on edge throughout the entire thing. What's refreshing about it is that you actually feel things for certain characters, I won't give examples because I don't want to spoil anything for anyone. This show was utterly brilliant from start to finish, there is very little I can actually critique about it.

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