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Sterling K. Brown’s ‘Paradise’ Is a Twisty Thriller That Still Puts Feelings First: TV Review
'This Is Us' collaborators Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman reunite for Hulu drama 'Paradise', a twisty thriller that still puts feeling first.
Bradford’s political patron Samantha Redmond (Julianne Nicholson), nicknamed “Sinatra,” is a tech billionaire with a disconcerting level of influence over Paradise and its affairs, but she’s also a wife and mother fiercely protective of her family. The strength of the central performances does a lot to sell this counterintuitive emphasis on the intimate — especially odd given that Fogelman is the rare producer with enough power to get a high-concept premise greenlit with no preexisting IP to back it up. Nicholson was quietly devastating as a bereaved mother in “Mare of Easttown” and wonderfully understated in last year’s acclaimed indie film “Janet Planet”; it’s fun to watch her play hard-edged, progressing from subtly menacing to borderline maniacal as the story unfolds.
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