Wanda and Leon are coming back. FX has released the trailer for The Drop: A Snowfall Saga, the spinoff series picking up where the beloved drama left off, premiering Tuesday, September 8 at 9 p.m. ET on FX and Hulu. New episodes will roll out weekly across eight episodes, with the series also available internationally on Disney+.
Gail Bean and Isaiah John return as Wanda Bell and Leon Simmons, the fan-favorite characters who became the emotional backbone of Snowfall over its six-season run. Where the original series tracked the crack cocaine epidemic tearing through 1980s Los Angeles, The Drop moves the clock forward to the 1990s and places Wanda and Leon at the center of a new cultural eruption: the rise of West Coast rap.
Wanda enters the series convinced that West Coast rap has the power to reshape American culture. She sets out to assemble a ragtag group of talent and navigate the dangerous overlap of music and street politics, leaning on her cousins Lamar Kinsey, played by Asante Blackk, and James Kinsey, played by Peyton Alex Smith, while pursuing volatile local rapper Artillery, played by Simmie “Buddy” Sims III. An internship with former D-boy-turned-label-owner Darryl “DG” Grant, played by Brandon Mychal Smith, opens doors but creates new friction with Leon, who has left the streets behind to run a free legal clinic.
The cast also includes Mykelti Williamson, Nicki Micheaux, Isidora Goreshter, Eric Balfour, Richard Portnow, Zaire Adams, Demetrius Grosse and Quincy Chad, who reprises his Snowfall role as Big Deon.
The series is executive produced by showrunner Malcolm Spellman alongside Dave Andron, Thomas Schlamme, Julie DeJoie, Michael London, Trevor Engelson and Paul Garnes. FX Productions produces.
Snowfall, created by John Singleton, Eric Amadio and Dave Andron, ran on FX from 2017 to 2023. The Drop was first rumored to be in development in 2023 and received a pilot order in 2025.
The Drop: A Snowfall Saga premieres September 8 on FX and Hulu.