
In the second season, Melanie departs Snowpiercer to find a place that humanity can recolonize. Wilford, and the surprise return of Melanie's believed-dead daughter Alexandra. After the revolution, Melanie officially hands leadership of the train to Layton and resumes her duties as Head Engineer, but her plans to remain indefinitely in the engine room are threatened by the arrival of Mr. Ultimately the secret is exposed, leading to a coup attempt by wealthy passengers from First Class, and a revolution by the Tail and Third Class sections with Melanie siding with Layton in the end. With few aware of her true identity, she is also desperate to maintain the myth of Wilford and keep her identity secret. Melanie has been facing the crushing burden of directing Snowpiercer on its global journey, managing mounting resource and class issues, having her authority and decisions challenged and maintaining Wilford's iron order throughout the train to preserve the last of humanity. It is later revealed Melanie has assumed his identity and is actually Snowpiercer 's Head Engineer, working tirelessly to keep it functional. Wilford's representative in relaying orders to the passengers and crew. To the majority of the train, Melanie is believed to be Mr. Though many of her peers are dismissive of the lower-class passengers, Melanie is curiously fascinated by them as she came from humble beginnings, explaining much of her sympathies.

Designed and built by the eccentric billionaire Mr. Snowpiercer is set in 2026, seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland, and follows the remnants of humanity who have taken shelter on a perpetually moving luxury train.
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In June 2022, ahead of the fourth season premiere, it was announced that the fourth season would be its last, being intended to make it the final scripted original series to air on TNT before the production of original programming was ceased. In July 2021, ahead of the third-season premiere, the series was renewed for a fourth season. In January 2021, ahead of the second-season premiere, the series was renewed for a third season which premiered on January 24, 2022.

The second season premiered on January 25, 2021.

Prior to studio shutdowns that occurred due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, most of the second season's production was completed. However, in September 2019, the decision to change networks was reversed. The series remained in development hell until May 2019, when it was announced that the series would instead air on TNT's sister network TBS for a release in the second quarter of 2020 and that it had already been renewed for a second season. While in development at TNT for over three years, the series faced numerous production issues and delays arising from creative differences between the series' producers and the network. Steven Ogg, Rowan Blanchard and Sean Bean joined the main cast in the second season and both Chelsea Harris and Archie Panjabi joined the main cast in the third season. Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs star alongside Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Iddo Goldberg, Susan Park, Katie McGuinness, Sam Otto, Sheila Vand, Mike O'Malley, Annalise Basso, Jaylin Fletcher, Lena Hall and Roberto Urbina. The series questions class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival.

The series, a reboot of the film's continuity, follows the passengers of the Snowpiercer, a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe carrying the remnants of humanity seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland. It is based on both the 2013 film of the same name, directed by Bong Joon-ho and the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette, from which the film was adapted. Snowpiercer is an American post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller television series that premiered on TNT on May 17, 2020.
