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It’s a Smooth-Brained Dystopia, and I Feel Fine
This may shock you, but things on Paradise are not what they seem.
Sterling K. Brown (a This Is Us alum), is Xavier Collins, a Secret Service agent assigned to protect Callum Bradford (played by James Marsden), the former president of the United States. It is frequently silly, weighed down by both its own hyperseriousness and its constant reliance on needle drops of Gen-X anthems timed precisely so that a character says something vital and shocking a split second before a crooner wails some on-the-nose lyric. It’s big and broad, with snappy pacing, continually shifting goalposts, and an innate sense that if it doesn’t keep offering up new surprises, it will instantly lose the audience’s attention.
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