‘Paradise’ Series Premiere Recap (Episode 1): “Wildcat Is Down” [Video]

I watch a lot of television. Considering that my job is “television critic,” my options on that front are limited. However, there’s been so much television being made for so long that even in the post-peak era of Peak TV, you can’t catch everything. So despite the popularity and cultural cachet of his twisty family drama This Is Us and his star-studded mystery series Only Murders in the Building, I’ve never watched a Dan Fogelman show before.

However, I have watched shows about post-apocalyptic human communities before. Fallout. The Last of Us. Silo. Station Eleven. This is to say nothing of less far-flung dystopias like Squid Game or Severance, or more far-flung dystopias like Andor and Foundation. If there’s one thing that doesn’t surprise me, it’s discovering a TV show is about the world collapsing.