'Snowfall' season 2 is far better in portraying the 80s' crack epidemic as compared to season 1
While talking about Franklin Saint's character in the second season of 'Snowfall', FX star Damson Idris said during an interview with NewsWeek, "This season is really gonna go focus on how inner-city communities—and not only the African American community but also the Latino communities—were really targeted and really took the fall and were thrown under the bus for this huge epidemic. That’s something that this season’s gonna explore in detail so that we can understand why many of our communities are how they are today. We weren’t just born in horrible situations. We were placed in them."
FX's hit series 'Snowfall' tells the story of the crack epidemic which took America by the neck in the 80's. As much as the CIA has been criticized for the spread of the epidemic, the Latino and American communities were further pushed to the margins due to their direct involvement with the drug trade. Season 1 of 'Snowfall' focused on the development of its characters in these times, as they tried to put up the stakes of their community in the times when America was suffering from one its deadliest periods of recession following the energy crisis of 1979. By December of 1982, the recession had reached its peak at 10.8%. In fact, the unemployment rate did not fall below 6% until September 1987.