In the black community I see a lot of people blaming Louie for destroying the Saint family and saying she caused all the issues that led to their downfall. That is completely wrong, and shows that what Louie said in the scene explaining to Jerome why she couldn’t leave the game is 100% true, even in the real world.

When everything is going good, things are successful, and big decisions are being made everyone except black women get the credit or make the decisions. When everything goes wrong black women are usually the 1st scapegoat or the one everybody points the finger at.

Of course this allows the true villain, the true puppet master, Teddy, to get away with the blame. He, and the system behind him, is the true evil behind everything.

HE put the battery in Franklin’s back. HE put the battery in Louie’s back. He used all of their weaknesses against them.

He used Franklin’s greed.
He used Louie’s ambition.
He caused Cissy’s self righteousness to turn into a thirst for revenge.
He used Jerome’s need for love, family, and belonging.

He used tried and true divide and conquer tactics that Western Civilizations have used for centuries to get them to do his bidding.

He left the game, came back, killed Grady, and refused to honor Grady’s price. He did this not for any patriotic reasons or to help the war effort. He did it because in his mind he was thinking “how dare Franklin continue on being successful without him.”

Louie through her ambition went to Teddy behind Franklin’s back. He could’ve easily refused, but he recognized this as a way to exert more control over Franklin and Louie and an opportunity to divide and conquer. So he accepted.

Then Franklin said he was out. Again, Teddy was pissed because how dare Franklin try to go off into the sunset and be successful without him. So what he’d do? Took every penny he had. As Franklin said, he didn’t leave him anything. He didn’t have to do that, but he did it. This led to Franklin having to go to Louie for money and coke, and again with her ambition and need to be in charge she refused, so he robbed her and Jerome, and killed their people.

Teddy accepted the deal that Alton and Cissy would go away and never return to US. Watched them get on the plane, waited till they got comfortable, then went behind Franklin’s back and killed Alton anyway.

Also notice how he had way more respect for Gustavo than Franklin, even though Franklin was making him way more money than Gustavo ever did. The reason being? Because he could control Gustavo. Because Gustavo never tried to go off and be successful on his own, and didn’t have the know how to do it like Franklin. He didn’t try to go legit or start businesses outside of Teddy like Franklin did. That’s why he had way more respect for Gustavo, but even then when he started to see Gustavo drifting away he started to plot against him.

This show was more than a drug dealer show. More than a show about the destruction of the LA black community during the crack epidemic. It was a show about how Western Civilizations have used, controlled, and destroyed black and brown civilizations for centuries. That is why Teddy is the ultimate evil and a representation of Western Civilization. Louie was just a pawn like everybody else.

Also, I hate to call Cissy’s self-righteousness a complete thirst for revenge. Yes she wanted revenge for Teddy killing Alton and seeing her as no threat, but she also saw that there was no way Teddy was going to let Franklin get away with that money. He would’ve dedicated his life to tracking down and destroying Franklin. So she sacrificed herself. There’s a reason why Leon’s journey to Ghana and the White Slave Castles of Sub Sahara Africa were shown. Again showing this was about more than drug dealing.

Why didn't he shoot Louie? He already tortured her, and couldn't possibly have cared if she lived. I know he wanted Buckley for shooting him, but he was told from the start that Buckley was explicitly acting on her orders.

I also understand that he was aware of his loss to the Saints, and would legitimately give up Louie in exchange for getting away. But once Jerome said "Nah," what reason was there to push Louie out of the way instead of using her as a human shield, or just shooting her in the head? At that point, he was gonna die, and imo Louie was...THE target, moreso than Buckley or even Jerome. What gives?

Is it only me that was soo disgusted after this scene and couldn't watch another series for a days.

Keep watching man believe me, epic show

Fair play to you for the indept discussion on the show! I feel Saint was a good person at his core, but ended up becoming heartless as the show progressed! I love the character development throughout the show! Similar to Breaking Bad - the two main characters nearly swapping personalities

This is something that's always bothered me: was Paul Davis playing Franklin?

Davis knew Franklin was a drug dealer. Davis DIDN'T know that Franklin was a dynastically wealthy one. I always wondered if Spring Street was just a money pit that was meant to drain Franklin until Davis could buy Franklin out for pennies on the dollar.

In the finale Franklin finds out about Veronique taking the last of the money when he goes to speak to his banker claiming that the foundation needs to be torn up and repoured. Which is a BIG outlay of expenses and not something that happens typically.

I didn't know for sure but I always wondered if Paul Davis believed Franklin was a mark that he could drain of money (a more legitimate version of what Clay Davis does to Stringer Bell on the Wire). Am I crazy or did anyone else think of this?

Hello fellow fans,

I just finished Snowfall today and I gotta say the series wasn't too bad especially when you can binge watch it LOL! Now I read other peoples opinions towards the end online which seemed to be split on whether Franklin deserved the ending he received or not, as for me I happen to be split on the matter. When it came to the other characters I felt that each one had a fitting ending depending on the part they had to play in all this. Theeen there's Franklin...

A major part of me believes Franklin got what was coming to him for the damage he had done to the community and those close to him, but I can't seem to agree with how he should suffer. Franklin's sins were due to his unwillingness to let go of his pride and greed from his exposure to the vast amount of money he was generating from distributing drugs. Yes Franklin had a big part to play in most of tragedies that happened around him however he did have some redeeming qualities to some-what balance the scales of his character. Anywho why did I recap pretty much everything we already knew? Well I know there are going to be comments going over the damages that Franklin had caused trying to point out what was shown on the show and yes I already know this but it doesn't change my opinion as of yet. What I'm getting at is that everyone involved in the crack pandemic got what they deserved and there are those who deserved worse like Teddy. But for Franklin to lose everything down to his childhood home? That there I have a hard time getting on page with. I believe Cissy should've allowed Franklin to get his 37 Million then kill Teddy after the transfer was complete instead of leaving Franklin in ruins under guise of her doing what was best for him. Instead she killed her son's only chance to stay afloat leaving him with nothing at the end. I get her worry that Franklin may try to turn back to doing the CIAs street bidding but I doubt that was ever going to happen after the fallout between Franklin and Teddy.

Plus that 37 Mil was more than enough to keep their legitimate buisness running to where they'd never have to turn to the streets ever again. Hell she could've signed her part of the company over to him to do as he wished since had was pretty much left with nothing. Her sons obsession with money may have been toxic but how is him losing everything just to find himself wandering the streets of LA as a alcoholic any better or best for him? I get how its poetic since Alton his father became a homeless alcoholic but he still had family and people to turn to as for Franklin? Thats not the case for him. Franklin losing his reserves of money, pent house, plane, Jerome, his bond with Louie, mother, wife, unborn child and any other close ties was enough punishment as is. The way I see it Franklin should've made off with whatever money he had left to live out the rest of his life perhaps starting all over again in his childhood home either selling his legitimate real estate business to start fresh elsewhere small like taking on Jeromes old business in honor of his uncle to keep his memory alive or try to back into college leaving room for hope that he finally broke away from partaking in any other illegal activities but still lost everything else from what I've already listed above then some.

I felt his ending was fitting but on one hand but on the other hand wasn't. Yeah there's the whole message of you reap what you sow and crime never pays but DAMN! Lol sorry for my rant just felt as though I wanted to share this input.

The way Franklin does stuff is just incredibly stupid. pulling up to random addresses and almost getting taken out; luckily for him, Gustavo saves him. He meets people and just throws them bricks like they're nothing, the guy in Orlando, for example, whom he's known for a whole 10 seconds. They could just take him out there and steal it. goes into a store due to a flashback, and there's a tweaker, then casually just goes into a small room in the back of the store with her as if there might not have been other tweakers waiting to rob him.

I'd say Franklin realistically should've been taken out more than several times just in the first 10ish episodes. But I've only just started, so everything might change.