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Paradise: Season 2 – TV Review

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TL;DR – The more I think about this season, the more it feels like it suffered from “Part-two-itus”, taking on the needed plot swerve so it can be the bridge between the opening and finale.

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Disclosure – I paid for the Disney+ service that viewed this series.

Sinatra walks through Paradise before it destroys itself.

Paradise Review Introduction

Well, we have gotten to the end of Paradise’s second season, and I can say that it did feel like a very odd season for me. Moments of profound interest, wasted plot points, and a perplexing ending. This gives it an interesting feel, and I feel like I am still wrapping my head around it days later.

So, to set the scene, as Season Two progressed, Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) finally reunited with his wife, Teri Rogers-Collins (Enuka Okuma). Sinatra (Julianne Nicholson) has been slowly moving back into the position of main power, thanks to Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom) killing all those who opposed her. Link (Thomas Doherty) and his group have made it to the outside of Paradise and have started making demands. All while everyone is trying to work out who is Alex? Now, from here, we will be looking at the season as a whole, so there will be [SPOILERS] ahead.

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Paradise: The Mailman [S2:E5] – TV Review

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TL;DR – While it had a strong start, I think I am starting to miss the focus of the first season, as we have another new start for characters.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Disclosure – I paid for the Disney+ service that viewed this series.

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Paradise Review –

This season of Paradise has been an interesting one because it does feel like we have had multiple starts. Everyone is about to make a journey, about to make a big change, about to find their wife. But nothing tangible ever coalesces, and I am not sure today’s episode will change anything.

So, to set the scene, in the before times, we are introduced to Gary (Cameron Britton), a mailman in Atlanta, Georgia, who is not very confident, but in his heart, he thinks he is a good man. He is quite lonely, with his only friends being on the computer. He has heard of this conspiracy theory of a volcano in Antarctica. Still, we know that this is not a conspiracy, and his turning the bunker in his mail office into a survival zone might just be the one thing that keeps a handful alive during the dark days of winter. Now, from here, we will be looking at the season as a whole, so there will be [SPOILERS] ahead.

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Orphan Black: Echoes – Season 1 – TV Review

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TL;DR – This is an interesting spin on the original, that works well within the framework that was set, even if it does not quite get the tone right in places.  

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Disclosure – I paid for the Stan service that viewed this series.

Warning – Contains scenes that may cause distress.

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Orphan Black: Echoes Review –

Back in the day, I was fascinated by this small show out of Canada that took a science fiction concept, in this case, cloning, and took it to the extreme with some of the best acting and weird worlds of subterfuge, rebellion, and secret organisations. During Orphan Black’s five-season run, I was transfixed with each new clone and turn in this world, so you better believe I was excited to find out we were coming back to this universe.

So to set the scene, a woman, Lucy (Krysten Ritter), wakes up with no memory of her past life, with only a therapist (Keeley Hawes) to tell her that she has had a procedure and some of the subtlety of her long-term member might not have worked. After being sedated, the woman is not just going to sit around and breaks out when she finds the house is a fake hidden in a warehouse. But worse still is the room full of body parts, a suspension chamber full of red liquid, and an unfinished artefact of a human. Can they print humans now? And who was the woman they scanned to make this body? Am I the only one who has been printed? We will be looking at the series as a whole from here, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead. 

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