ON DEMAND CHOICE: Snowpiercer

Sean Bean joins the cast as the US drama about a long train circling a frozen, dead Earth

begins its new weekly second season on Netflix. Here’s our guide to the show… What’s it about? The movie Snowpiercer It’s worth watching… If you like a follows a brutal rebellion on a train full of strong female star. There’s a lot the last humans from a frozen Earth. This to like in the world-building that TV series version starts off looking like Snowpiercer does, but it’s it’s telling the same tale in slow motion, Connelly’s subtly shifting but then chooses a different track and performance as the enigmatic throws in a murder mystery for good Melanie that really holds your measure. Jennifer Connelly plays Melanie attention throughout season one. Cavill (centre), the authoritative voice If you like this, try… Altered of the train, who serves the will of the Carbon (Netflix), Game Of even more mysterious Mr Wilford, Thrones (Sky/now TV), and she is our guide to the richly His Dark Materials (iplayer), realised world of a very long Humans (All 4), Parasite locomotive that is strictly (Amazon), Snowpiercer divided by class. Season two (the film, Amazon), The Day opens with some fresh arrivals, After Tomorrow (Amazon), one played by Sean Bean. The Expanse (Amazon).