By Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic The strangeness of “Snowpiercer,” TNT’s new post-apocalyptic drama, is all in its setting.
The series, like its graphic-novel source material as well as the 2013 Bong Joon Ho film adaptation that preceded it, can’t help emphasizing how weird its premise is: That after a failed attempt to reengineer the world’s climate, humans are able to survive a new ice age by boarding a globe-spanning train, operating in a state of perpetual motion.
But once the oddity sinks in and becomes less striking — once we get our train legs, perhaps — the show feels deeply familiar.
That’s, first, because the substance of this device is so grindingly familiar. The rich cavort in the train’s more luxurious cars while the
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