[s5e5] The Iliad: Part 1 [BEST]

Snowfall season five, episode five, "The Iliad: Part 1," centers on a violent ambush against Franklin Saint’s organization and a surreal sequence involving a tiger, setting up a two-part narrative shift toward high-stakes survival. The episode, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan and aired in 2022, parallels Homeric tragedy with the 1980s drug war's brutal reality, drawing thematic comparisons between Franklin and Achilles. Read a full recap at Vulture .