Eight years after the cinematic series concluded on our screens, Suzanne Collins has brought back her dazzling world of rising revolutions and fallen empires. “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” focuses on a new protagonist, Coriolanus Snow —played by Tom Blyth — in his ascent to presidency, fame and inevitably evil. An 18-year-old Coriolanus is tasked with mentoring the 10th annual Hunger Games, a mission he finds much more challenging than he originally anticipated.