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Paradise Recap: The Man Who Saved the World
In the retelling of The End of the World, Paradise turns itself into a thrilling, relentless, deeply unsettling disaster movie.
In the retelling of The End of the World, Paradise turns itself into a thrilling, relentless, deeply unsettling disaster movie perfectly paced for an hour-long episode of television. The wave is two hours out from Key West and five from D.C. As if things aren’t bad enough — I truly cannot believe I had to write that phrase at this point — President Cal Bradford is in an intense Cabinet Meeting in which he learns that governments are out there just popping off missiles to preemptively stake their claim over land and whatever resources they can before others do. A Colonel in the Air Force during the Cuban Missile Crisis — yep, it’s all coming together now — built what is basically a failsafe switch to execute a linked array of EMPs all over the world that will “fry every electronic circuit on earth.” It will render useless everything from microwaves to, yes, nuclear warheads.
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