Jan 30, 2025 09:23 PM
(This post was last modified: Jan 30, 2025 09:51 PM by Magical Realist.)
ABC almost hooked me in by airing the first episode of this last night. But no..I'm not subscribing to Hulu just to stream this series. Nice try though..
https://www.vulture.com/article/paradise...rsden.html
"There’s no way to talk about Hulu’s new drama thriller Paradise without talking about the twist at the end of episode one. That’s a familiar place to be for a show made by Dan Fogelman, a writer previously known for “there’s no good way to talk about the NBC family drama This Is Us without talking about the twist at the end of episode one,” and also “there’s no good way to talk about the Fox baseball drama Pitch without talking about the twist at the end of episode one.” Those two other series, although distinct from each other in plot, aren’t far apart in terms of tone and scope. They’re interpersonal dramas about desire, ambition, intimacy, and hope set in a recognizable contemporary world. Their twists are surprising but mostly structural. You thought these people were different, but they’re the same characters! You thought he was hard on her about her career, but he was a hallucination the whole time!
Paradise is a different variety of Fogelman twist. It has just as much of a topsy-turvy rug-pulled-out-from-under-you impact, but it has a different kind of relationship to the broader show and puts Paradise into an increasingly crowded collection of television shows all meditating on the same general idea."
https://www.vulture.com/article/paradise...rsden.html
"There’s no way to talk about Hulu’s new drama thriller Paradise without talking about the twist at the end of episode one. That’s a familiar place to be for a show made by Dan Fogelman, a writer previously known for “there’s no good way to talk about the NBC family drama This Is Us without talking about the twist at the end of episode one,” and also “there’s no good way to talk about the Fox baseball drama Pitch without talking about the twist at the end of episode one.” Those two other series, although distinct from each other in plot, aren’t far apart in terms of tone and scope. They’re interpersonal dramas about desire, ambition, intimacy, and hope set in a recognizable contemporary world. Their twists are surprising but mostly structural. You thought these people were different, but they’re the same characters! You thought he was hard on her about her career, but he was a hallucination the whole time!
Paradise is a different variety of Fogelman twist. It has just as much of a topsy-turvy rug-pulled-out-from-under-you impact, but it has a different kind of relationship to the broader show and puts Paradise into an increasingly crowded collection of television shows all meditating on the same general idea."