Paradise starring Sterling K. Brown, espionage thriller on Hulu

[Uchiha God]

I don’t like it when shows get themselves on this hamster wheel of ever increasing mysteries/questions.

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very much doubt the kid killed the president, so her being there and having the tablet just feels unnecessary. And I know they foreshadowed it when Billy said the kid used to go over there to play Nintendo with him and his girl - but still

I also feel like there’s already enough intrigue, possibilities, plot points and strings to pull on. Hopefully the rest of the season focuses and nails down something rather than “but wait - there’s more!!” type of story telling

 

[Tj Bronson]

Is this worth a watch?

 

[Majestyx]

Cal was writing down all the secrets, I assume someone finds his journal at some point

Xavier knows where the guns are now

Paradise has a no pets policy, but the neighbor was able to sneak one through and sneak a message in the sky

this shyt ridiculously writen. Ellie Musk got all kinds of shyt on lock, but this gay dude got a puppy and causally putting msgs in the fake sky.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Funny, he’s dude from 27 dresses to me, then wesrworld

He’s the guy from The Notebook who took his fiancé back after she left him to cheat with her ex for multiple days in a house the ex built for them in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Yzak]

Okay...

My thoughts and what not. Don't take these too seriously, as per usual I'm just having some fun.

Lemme get the Coli Criticisms out the way first.

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  The Iranian picked all 25,000
  

  • looking at them demographics...
    • It does beg the question of how to deal with race in fiction. Star Trek gave them the visual basis, but Star Trek was literal about being in a non-racist society....I digress

  [*]Black man sold out his Black Father?
  [*]His daughter is trying to get cac'd..
  

  • Black Mother from Memphis calls her child Presley - really?
  • And why the daughter's friend gotta be large and in charge? (I'm fat shaming? yes I am)

  [*]His boss was getting cac'd.,,
  

  • And another dark "skinded" woman who's playing an unlikable character.

  [*]And he himself was a victim of non-consensual swirling...

Other issues

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World Building

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I'm very much reminded of Silo. All them years of reading Pop Mechanics, Pop Science, NASA briefings, and Sci Fic as a youngsta - gets me wondering about the logistics...

• Food
  • How are they growing that type amount of food for 25,000 people (and the population might grow...)
  • Grocery Store looking like Whole Foods/Trader Joes
  • Keto Shelf
  • organic shelf
• fresh Water
• Sewage and water treatment
• Trash disposal
• No insects? Really? Have the writers never been on a construction site? In a brand new building?

The Socio-Economics of the post apocalypse

• Why exactly would the billionaires remain in charge?
  • she made her money via stock -but assuming she cashed out and spent her 34B to dig out a mountain and build a city for 25K - a
    • very quickly her "money" is worth nothing, and her power should evaporate
• Even now they got a waitstaff...does she get the same house and benefit..
• There's still an unelected council of elites that are
• What is these kids learning in a school after the world came crashing down (TBF I was listening to some Gaza kids that were excited to return home and go back to school....*laughs to keep from crying*)
• WII Tennis is from 2006.
• Food aside, where are they getting the plastic and micro chips and gasoline(?) and all the other stuff required for modern life?

I'm liking the series so far. But anytime you do a Sci Fi series, that's trying to be on some Lost/Silo/"Mystery Box" steez - the world building has to be impeccable, on top of it being a good drama.

Still rocking with show though!

That's why I probably won't continue watching lol

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Just watched the first episdoe, holy shyt

 

[Jigganaut]

Man listen. I'm on episode 3 hot fire

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Is this based on a true story?

Yeah breh.

 

[Rich Spirit]

This is my favorite show right now.

Same, episodes get better every week

 

[jdubnyce]

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theres no way X's kid(s) killed Cal. If they did, im done with this show. Maybe someone gave the daughter the tablet

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Either the dad did it, or he killed himself, and someone helped cover it up, or wealthy lady had someone do it because she’s in cahoots with the VP/new president. We haven’t seen anything about the VP yet.

 

[Strapped]

Nice series

 

[Jigganaut]

Same, episodes get better every week

Got me and my wife to put our phones down.

 

[Danie84]

I like how the flashbacks is playing out like Memento by filling in the blanks up to the President assassination, which is starting to feel like another elaborate ploy from Sinatra's mastermind

 

[RickyGQ]

I hate to say this but they should've cast a badder actress as Robinson. It's hard to believe the president was fukking her

It's taking me out of the show. Them making out didn't even look remotely believable. Not just cause she homely, which I'm sure is on purpose, but shes not even charismatic or anything. She's not funny, she's not kind and sweet. She just bland nothingness...