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Paradise Breakdown: Post-Apocalypse Twist, Secret Service Murder & Human Drama
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Paradise on Hulu gets the Streamin’ Demons deep dive. Jo & Amelie unpack the wild extinction-level event reveal, Sterling K. Brown's gripping lead as agent Xavier, James Marsden's president flashbacks, and why this smart sci-fi thriller feels so grounded and human despite the bunker world. A killer first-episode hook that had us hooked—perfect binge if you love mystery with heart.
Key Moments:
Opening chaos – Jo kicks off with the usual chaos, allergies, sickness blame game, and that deep 15-year friendship telepathy riff (hummus sync!).
Main plot or twist – The massive premiere reveal: what looks like a normal day turns into post-apocalypse bunker life after an extinction event, president murdered, total game-changer.
Character study – Sterling K. Brown shines as the dedicated agent/single dad Xavier—fit, intense, relatable struggles; James Marsden nails the charismatic president in flashbacks.
Jo’s big take – Thought it was some neighbor drama at first, blown away by the smart sci-fi that doesn't shove tech in your face, more thriller/mystery with real human connections (loved not recognizing faces for immersion).
Amelie’s reflection – Praises the grounded, sober approach—like Black Mirror or Battlestar Galactica, everyday problems in extreme settings, character depth, no over-info overload, hooks you right from episode one.
WTF moment – That late-episode jazz-hands twist flips everything you thought you knew, leaving you desperate for more.
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Solid pick, Amelie—went from "meh screener week" to this hidden gem (well, not so hidden with those Emmy noms and buzz). The human stuff hits hard, the twist lands perfectly, and yeah, Sterling looks way too good for any of us. Go stream Paradise on Hulu/Disney+ if you haven't—worth the ride. Peace out!
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Transcript
Introduction and Past Production Debacle
00:00:07
Jo
Hey everyone, Joe and Amelie here for another exciting adventure of Streaming Demons.
00:00:08
Amelie
Thank you.
00:00:12
Jo
Today, today, today, like and subscribe out of the way because we actually got something good today. Unlike the fucking debacle I just put out with something about a black screen shaky cam and whatever the fuck that was.
00:00:19
Amelie
feel
00:00:25
Amelie
feel water
00:00:27
Jo
Today...
Movie Picks and Screener Experiences
00:00:29
Jo
It was Emily's pick. Why? Because all the review people hate her. Apparently we went on screeners and mine's filled with everything in the world and hers is like empty like a fucking ghost town.
00:00:42
Jo
How does it make you feel, man? Just curious.
00:00:45
Amelie
Bad, I guess.
00:00:46
Jo
but I'm so sorry. and but There wasn't really anything. okay We were between screeners this week.
Upcoming Releases and Delays
00:00:57
Jo
Because we had so many things coming out anyways. and There's an amazing one coming out. I guess. Shit. Okay. So recording this one on February 1st.
00:01:10
Jo
But on this Friday, the Bugs Bunny one. Excuse me, the Daffy Duck and the Porky Pig one. I was going to come out, I think, on February 6th. So you will actually see the one I'm talking about, which we love.
00:01:27
Jo
before you see this one, which we're taping now. So that's one of those things. So we had like a little lull in like movie screening and I still want to see 28 years later, the bone temple and I still want to do silent hill.
00:01:43
Jo
Um, but Amelie got me sick. So I can't see them.
00:01:49
Jo
If you don't see the podcast, she's telling me I'm number one. And she's stirring it up. No, honestly, I think this is just allergies.
00:02:00
Jo
I've been sneezing a lot. And then there's fucking hay fever because the wind is negative 40 degrees yesterday because of the wind for the last three or four fucking days.
00:02:13
Amelie
I'm sorry, but I like to believe because we have a very special relationship and profound love over 15 years of friendship, right?
00:02:23
Amelie
Of following each other. You may have been, you know, like spiritually... got sick from my flu. We're so connected by the universe, you know, you're kilometers from me, you're far, far away across the ocean.
00:02:35
Jo
Yeah.
00:02:41
Amelie
shi No, I like to believe it's because my chakra is very negative this time because I've got the flu and runny nose. and therefore you've got runny nose.
00:02:51
Jo
Yeah.
Canadian Weather and Resilience
00:02:54
Amelie
It's not because it's minus something, it's not because if you went through the highway almost dying several times a day, right, for the past five days.
00:02:54
Jo
Yeah. That's what you think?
00:03:01
Jo
Yeah. That was fucked up last week, not gonna lie.
00:03:05
Amelie
It's not because you were waking up very early to arrive late, right? It's not because
00:03:11
Jo
Yep.
00:03:11
Amelie
You know, you went outside while every city in Canada closed, except Montreal. We don't know why. They're like, no, people from Montreal are different.
00:03:20
Jo
We're retarded, that's why.
00:03:21
Amelie
You know, they have to face... crazy condition right it's it's completely normal it's it's completely normal right making me really worried sick is your life u just blurb or at that point attacked by a polar bear no you don't have a flu because it's cold outside you have a flu because you really like me and because we have a special bone attention
00:03:46
Jo
i I see what you're doing. and i i That's kind of cute. And that would explain why every month I piss blood. Because it's not because the amount of times I'm just drinking and abusing my body or getting like punched.
00:04:01
Jo
It's because it's the way I can mimic you having your period. I know you don't piss blood during a period I get it. I dropped out of med school be after that lesson, by the way.
00:04:07
Amelie
All right.
00:04:11
Jo
But you know, just making a joke.
00:04:11
Amelie
Oh. Yeah.
00:04:14
Jo
I don't really piss blood anymore.
00:04:14
Amelie
mother
00:04:15
Jo
Anymore.
00:04:15
Amelie
See? See? See? When you're depressed, I'm depressed. When I'm up p yo happy, you're happy. See what I
Telepathic Connection and Hummus Love
00:04:21
Amelie
mean? See what I mean?
00:04:22
Jo
Yeah.
00:04:23
Amelie
You like hummus? I love hummus. Here we go.
00:04:26
Jo
I made you hummus.
00:04:26
Amelie
Here we go.
00:04:26
Jo
Well, technically I made myself hummus.
00:04:27
Amelie
Like you texted me, look, I made hummus. And I'm like, that's why I like hummus. That's why I was looking at bold food hummus. I'm like, m I don't know why. Out of nowhere, I want hummus.
00:04:39
Amelie
Telepathy, telepathy connection, my friend.
00:04:41
Jo
Maybe. Maybe. Now, I do appreciate that. And it was really weird. Honest to God, didn't welcome to our food talk. I didn't know you liked hummus at all. I didn't. I was just like, you know, I was making something. i am but Tonight, I've said this for the last fucking week and a half, but I'm going to make my vegan gumbo.
00:05:00
Jo
I didn't make a couple days ago. i was I was name dropping. Talking to Tony Horton the other day. And he was talking about some kind of plant box stew. And they're actually really fucking good.
00:05:12
Jo
Plant strong stew. Jesus, they're good. Something just kind of like eating those, like a small rabbit. But yes, small things come in good sizes. Wait, what?
00:05:23
Jo
You know what mean.
00:05:23
Amelie
No, that's why you, lets see, you eat like a rabbit, therefore you do like a rabbit, right?
00:05:29
Jo
Maybe.
00:05:30
Amelie
and
00:05:30
Jo
Well, no, I've been... No, no, it's not like that. We're talking about shit. like It's not like small rabbit pellets at all. I mean, I don't know. But for those you that are wondering like why they're so talking about this, this all goes back to us not having any screeners and not being well enough to see the movies because we're both sick.
00:05:55
Jo
And we don't want to be the asshole who gets other people sick we want to see a movie. That's not us. And so we'll review Bone Temple and Silent Hill in a couple weeks.
00:06:08
Jo
A little bit later than we wanted, but still, whatever. and you got to pick
Series Selection Methodology
00:06:13
Jo
what we watched. And you picked Paradise, the TV show on Disney+.
00:06:18
Amelie
Correct.
00:06:18
Jo
plus
00:06:19
Amelie
Yes, so we play the role of dice, the role of three.
00:06:20
Jo
Or Hulu, sorry.
00:06:23
Amelie
So if you want to go out and hang with a friend who, for example, like DVDs, movies, or for example, new series, I do the role of three. You select three series you wish to watch or three movies you wish to watch and say, basically, this is my three.
00:06:41
Amelie
If you don't like the selection, you can replace by... one serial movie you like and my selection went to Shogun and Paradise.
00:06:53
Amelie
Why Shogun and Zootopia?
00:06:53
Jo
and Zootopia
00:06:55
Amelie
Yes. Zootuber was a movie because i heard of it a lot of time. It's the first cartoon.
00:07:02
Jo
oh you didn't watch it you never saw Zootopia pieces of it we'll watch it next time I'm sorry I thought you saw that I was just like for me there's like no but it's like if I saw the fucking cartoon I'm guessing everyone else in the universe saw the cartoon too because I don't really watch those
00:07:08
Amelie
I just saw pieces of it. I never took the time to watch Zootopia. Okay.
00:07:24
Amelie
Let me rephrase. i never took the time to watch Zootopia.
00:07:29
Jo
Okay.
00:07:30
Amelie
Voilà.
00:07:30
Jo
But we got Paradise now.
Discussion on 'Paradise' and Sci-Fi Elements
00:07:32
Jo
And Paradise, it was something i wanted to watch. And i was like, no, I just can't do it. I can't do it. i can't do it. And lo and behold, season two starts this month. I'm like, fuck.
00:07:43
Jo
I thought it wass just like a brand new show. But apparently it's been like a year old. And... It is something we both watched a lot closer than we did with the Don't Look in the Dark bullshit.
00:07:56
Jo
Because you know why? This one had things on the TV screen that were important things. And they were talking. And and no one was colorblind in this fucking thing.
00:08:07
Jo
And it's got Cyclops from X-Men. I think that's fucking Cyclops. It might be Beast. I'm pretty sure James Marsden is Cyclops, right? James Marsden, yeah, James Marsden's Cyclops from the X-Men, like the original good X-Men back from like the 2000s. Holy fuck.
00:08:27
Jo
X-Men was the 2000s, the movie. 2000s. Not even 2000s, plural. 2000 on the dot. Did you realize that? The movie X-Men came out in the year 2000? And
00:08:39
Jo
I'm going to see either thinking about this deeply or frozen.
00:08:44
Jo
By the head shaking, I'm not sure which.
00:08:46
Amelie
No, I said didn't believe it. It's crazy how time it's flying.
00:08:52
Jo
Welcome to Streaming Demons when we will have 20 minutes of talking before the show and then as soon the show starts recording, Amelie's internet fucks off.
00:09:03
Jo
Or computer overheats. But yeah, anyways, it's the 2000s, so James Morrison's Cyclops is in it. He's not playing Cyclops in this. He's playing the president United States, which could be Cyclops. Fuck, who knows, actually.
00:09:17
Jo
And that is a nice little surprise for me because I didn't know any money. i i don't know Sterling K. Brown. I don't know Nicole Byron Bloom. I don't know Sarah Sholly. I don't know any of these people at all. And it kind of works.
00:09:33
Jo
Because I think ah something a series like Paradise where they're recreating Secret Service people and they're recreating the presidency and stuff like that, works better if you don't know who the fuck people are. Does that make sense?
00:09:47
Jo
This is me testing Amelie's internet again.
00:09:50
Amelie
Yes! Yes, that makes sense. So, learning like so thats three is when i watch the trigger
00:10:07
Jo
yeah And then with this one, going be a quicker.
00:10:14
Jo
So when we're watching this, we just watched episode one.
00:10:16
Amelie
so
00:10:19
Jo
We watched episode one, season one of Paradise. And I do apologize every time we do this, but yeah, I swear we do have better shows than not just hearing myself and Echo and stuff like that.
00:10:25
Amelie
Yeah.
00:10:35
Jo
um It is what it is today. But apparently this was nine wins and 29 nominations for Emmys and stuff like that. So it's not as like a sleeper hit. It's definitely huge hit that I never watched.
00:10:50
Jo
And it's cool because it starts out slow. the The first episode starts out slow and it's just a normal day and stuff like that. And it ramps up really quickly from there. And then they do the jazz hands reveal at the last, spoiler alert, the last 20 or 30 seconds of the episode.
00:11:08
Jo
And the episodes themselves, they're bite-sized, but not hugely bite-sized. It's not like watching Mike Tyson Mystery. They're manageable in size, less than an hour. I'm looking for a fucking time on this thing, but currently I have to do it bit by bit by bit by bit.
00:11:23
Jo
they ah Each episode is less than an hour. Like the first one is, fuck the Vino.
00:11:30
Jo
Welcome Streaming Demons where none of the things in IMDb work today.
00:11:34
Amelie
51 minutes.
00:11:35
Amelie
It lasts, on average, 51 minutes. It's very short, it's very good. So what I was saying is, I really like that show because I knew it was sci-fi, but it's so fixed in a normal environment, like you follow...
00:11:35
Jo
Thank you.
00:11:50
Jo
Yeah.
00:11:52
Amelie
the main character who is introduced to the president, who explain to him why he chose him, blah, blah, blah, blah. And like, okay, cool, great. I can see he's get murdered. I like it.
00:12:02
Amelie
I like the path. I like how it's organized, et cetera.
00:12:04
Jo
Spoiler.
00:12:07
Amelie
Oh, it's known. It's none it's so the main plot.
00:12:09
Amelie
It's a main plot, and everything. It's a main plot. The president get killed. Who the fuck killed him? What happened? Yadadadada. So you learn a lot about the character, et cetera.
00:12:09
Jo
i didn't know it until it happened.
00:12:20
Jo
Oh, I guess I could have read the idb
00:12:20
Amelie
and And that's really interesting because it's sci-fi, but it's not over the top. Like the new technology, you notice it. It's a little bit like Black Mirror.
00:12:33
Amelie
When you watch Black Mirror, people live in the countryside and all a sudden you have a very developed computer in the house. Or the house has a very special door. It reminds me of Black Mirror in some case.
00:12:46
Jo
You know what? I've only seen one episode of Black Mirror.
00:12:49
Amelie
Shame on you! can I be friends with you like that dude?
00:12:53
Jo
What, me and Lena are going to walk through? Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. and It was the one with that you can pick your own adventure too.
00:12:57
Amelie
Shame! I'm going to follow you in Montreal street with the bell. burn Shame, bone shame.
00:13:04
Jo
Yeah.
00:13:05
Amelie
How can you, dude? Dude! Dude, you need to make a list of series, movies people watch and talk about.
00:13:17
Amelie
Because Black Mirror, come on.
00:13:17
Jo
Do really, though?
Cultural Significance of 'Black Mirror'
00:13:21
Amelie
Come on.
00:13:21
Jo
Trying to figure out why didn't I watch Black Mirror? Okay, Black Mirror started out in 2011. Yeah. Hmm. h What's the proper way of saying that? I was having a lot of sex. I'm so sorry I wasn't watching TV.
00:13:35
Jo
so so My same answer when people ask me, have you ever seen Joe Bob Briggs before Shudder? Like, no, I have not. Why not? It was a Monster Vision, whatever the fuck it's called. When was it? Oh, it was on TNT Friday nights. I'm like, yeah, I was in Vegas getting laid. That's probably why offhand, slightly offhand. I don't know, man.
00:13:56
Jo
So I get it. Black Mirror, I should probably watch it or some shit one time. I did watch it once. It was the Choose Your own Adventure version of it. i had pneumonia, so I couldn't figure it it out for like 12 hours. but
00:14:07
Jo
Yeah, so yeah, I agree.
00:14:08
Amelie
Yeah, but there is movies.
00:14:08
Jo
Yeah.
00:14:09
Amelie
There's movies and series, like, for example, like Black Mirror or some very important movie who are part of... How can I say
00:14:18
Jo
The cultural zealias.
00:14:19
Amelie
Yes, especially Black Mirror for new generation.
00:14:21
Jo
Yeah.
00:14:23
Amelie
Goddamn, especially for the millennial. We are living currently in a Black Mirror event. Like everything is a future, this is a future, but it's not...
00:14:30
Jo
Yeah, you're millennials.
00:14:35
Amelie
That's something, you know, I disagree with you. Yes, you're really good with the classic, with the movie, with ah the book, with everything, you know, and there is so...
00:14:38
Jo
Is that you're not millennial? You are millennial. You can disagree with time all you want.
00:14:47
Amelie
so many series and movies where we clash and I'm like, oh, did you watch this? No. And I'm like, why? Like, why? Like the development of the character, quote, the filming and this and that, like you with your potential, with your knowledge, with your world, you know, I expect that from you to be able to, yes, I watched it and I see this and I see like, ah,
00:15:14
Jo
Yeah, well, okay, watch.
00:15:15
Amelie
Ah, like Breaking Bad.
00:15:17
Jo
you want You really want to know the second reason?
00:15:18
Amelie
oh
00:15:19
Jo
though Emily, Emily, hold on, hold on.
00:15:20
Amelie
oh, that's my Roman Empire, dude.
00:15:20
Jo
Time out, time out, time out. I get it, millennials apparently take TV shit seriously.
00:15:22
Amelie
My Roman Empire. Like, oh.
00:15:25
Jo
Hold on. right
00:15:28
Jo
One second, so I can fucking word. Thanks. Ask me what I do on a normal day, though. Not even having a sex right now. i'm like I work a fucking lot, so when do you think I have time to watch these fucking... I barely watch a screener once a week with you.
00:15:43
Jo
I barely have time for that. So like I'm writing, a finishing a fucking screenplay. I started a new a gig yesterday.
00:15:55
Jo
And I was like, I'm doing a bunch of other fucking coursework. I ain't got time for that. Maybe one day... I'll just sit at home, watch TV all day, but it ain't me, man. I couldn't even do if I tried.
00:16:09
Jo
Like, honestly, God, even if I'm sick, I can't watch TV all day even if i' fucking tried. Even if I tried, it's not me. I'd rather just blow my fucking brains out. And like, if it comes to that, if I can't do anything else but watch TV all day get the fucking gun, it's time.
00:16:23
Jo
It's fucking time. Hunter Thompson. Let's do that shit. See, I get it. There's some things I might have missed. And the cultural zeitgeist for the millennials, because i'm again, I'm not a millennial.
00:16:35
Jo
So that's probably why. if you ever want to know, is Spade a fucking Gen Xer? I don't know. Maybe. But read David Spade's book, a Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World. And he kind of had my view of what been going through. You know.
00:16:58
Jo
But back to paradise.
00:17:00
Jo
It's a hydrate the fuck out myself.
00:17:03
Jo
Creator Dan Fogelman. and like i I'm just saying it works. I think you are correct. You are correct in it is a smart sci-fi. We're not jamming science fiction down your throat.
00:17:17
Jo
It's a smart so sci-fi where it doesn't even have to be science fiction. It's more like a thriller. that Yeah, it's more of a mystery thriller, which is surviving Scarlet Shadows.
00:17:28
Amelie
Yes, yes, yes, yes. You have limited information.
00:17:33
Amelie
It's really in the present, presentation of different characters, etc., the city by itself, etc. You know he's got kids, you know he's working for the president, it's it's ah its not a small town where he is, and there is a murder. So you see his way of thinking, his past, flashback, etc.,
00:17:33
Jo
Yeah.
00:17:55
Amelie
And I really like it.
00:17:56
Jo
Yeah.
00:17:57
Amelie
Like, it's very sober. It's well played. And you have interesting characters. And there is no over-information. I like it.
00:18:10
Jo
Yeah, I and this is something you know what I did look at. I said I didn't know Sterling K Brown. I lied. i didn't remember Sterling K Brown. I'm so sorry.
00:18:23
Jo
Which, to the point, is good. It means I'm not watching him for like, oh, I know this guy. um um ah It's alex Alexander Skarsgård. I'm going to watch it all. i'm not No, it's... I don't recognize that name.
00:18:35
Jo
I've seen him before. I've seen a single fucking episode of This Is Us. A single fucking episode created by the same guy, Dan Fulgerman. And check this out, Emily. Have you ever watched This Is Us?
00:18:50
Amelie
No, I didn't watch it I'm not interested.
00:18:54
Jo
Okay, but I'm going to give you the tagline. You tell me if you're still not interested. Me, but again, I watched it for episode. It just wasn't for me. A heartwarming and emotional story about a unique set of triplets, their struggles, and wonderful parents.
00:19:08
Jo
Yeah. It's about fucking triplets.
00:19:12
Amelie
It's about triplets.
00:19:14
Jo
Yeah, for real.
00:19:16
Amelie
Ah bon? okay
00:19:16
Jo
I don't know how, but I'm just reading it off.
00:19:21
Jo
45 minutes, 2016 and 22, you know.
00:19:25
Jo
But again, it wasn't for a pandemic. I probably wouldn't even watch that either. So you have these great stories. So Dan creates great stories.
00:19:36
Jo
Right? It's like Mike Flanagan creates great stories for horror.
Dan Fogelman's Storytelling on Human Connection
00:19:42
Jo
Dan's creating, and I'm not saying Dan did fucking sci-fi in This Is Us, but he's doing great story work.
00:19:51
Jo
And I think that's the strength of Paradise. I didn't even care about the sci-fi. but That was kind of like a nice little twist for me. I didn't i didn't know it sci-fi. I had no idea what it was coming into it other than it showed up in my Disney Plus feed 12,000 million times.
00:20:05
Jo
And had like, didn't even know Cyclops was in it until I started watching the first episode.
00:20:10
Jo
You know? So I think it's a human connection in these stories that makes it.
00:20:18
Jo
Would you, yeah, agree?
00:20:19
Amelie
Yes, yes, I agree.
00:20:19
Jo
Okay.
00:20:20
Amelie
Like, for example, Galactica, the new generation Galactica, not the first Galactica from the 70s.
00:20:27
Jo
Oh, Battleship?
00:20:27
Amelie
Why it was so popular?
00:20:27
Jo
Okay, yeah.
00:20:30
Amelie
Well, because inside the story, even if it was a spaceship and there were aliens and ya da da da and robot and patati patata, you had everyday life problem. Like, for example, the president had cancer. You had people who were soldiers who didn't want it to be soldiers and they get back to soldiers. There is love triangles.
00:20:52
Amelie
people were sick, people wanted to look after their families, there were race battles, etc., philosophy, etc.
00:21:00
Amelie
It was everyday life on a spaceship, and it was very human, the way it was filmed, etc., there were battles on space, but what's really interesting and what I remember from that theory is how human it is, with people committing suicide, people who were Sikh people who were a great soldiers but had love interest and didn't know who they were going to marry.
00:21:00
Jo
Yeah.
00:21:24
Amelie
yeahda yadada Grief. How do you grief people, friends who die in space or your life on earth, etc. So that's really interesting. The the politics. Oh, now we have a new religion.
00:21:38
Amelie
Is it a sect? Is it a religion? etc Because people need to be believe in something.
00:21:41
Jo
Yeah.
00:21:43
Amelie
There are elections and stuff.
00:21:44
Jo
Should.
00:21:44
Amelie
And I really like that series for that. That's why I'm very curious with Paradise because from the trailer I thought, oh, the president is dead. Interesting. What do they do once the president dies?
00:21:55
Amelie
I like that. I like that kind of series. And all of sudden I realized, wait a minute, it's sci-fi? Really? Oh, man, I didn't know. like That's the turn of the twist.
00:22:02
Jo
Very cool. Yeah.
00:22:03
Amelie
That's... And you know, as a writer, the first chapter is always very important. Or the first episode, right?
00:22:11
Jo
Oh shit it is?
00:22:12
Amelie
To hook people, right?
00:22:12
Jo
Jesus Christ, now you tell me?
00:22:14
Amelie
And yeah, that's interesting to see up the twist, you know, how to hook people, how to create a storyline, a character, introduce, etc.
00:22:15
Jo
Fuck.
00:22:18
Jo
No one reads my stuff.
00:22:26
Amelie
it's not what it seems you think oh it's just that story and a small community bob and no no no no no no no it's way more complicated than you think so you're really hooked you're like wow now i want to know see what i mean
00:22:38
Jo
Yeah.
00:22:42
Jo
Well, yeah, no, and for your comparison to Battlestar, said Battleship because I'm fucking sick. Battlestar Galactica, I've seen a bit of both series, like the original one as a kid, and then,
00:22:57
Jo
you know ah know, the new one with Katie Stackhoff. and James Edward almost and stuff like that. so I seen those. And I think the reason why people liked it was because of humanity.
00:23:13
Jo
You're right. If it's just sci-fi for sci-fi, they don't go so far. That's special effects bugger and you're done. If no one cares what the person who cares, like we watched one movie where didn't care who lives or dies. I actually was sad to see that the president dies in the first fucking scene or the the first episode of paradise spoiler for, you know, anyone who is wondering, I thought, I thought Emily was spoiling it for me, but you're right. If you read the IMDB, it actually fucking says it out loud.
00:23:40
Jo
So, so I guess I didn't read anything PR wise. I'm paradise, but it's telling the story. I'm just telling the story. Because honestly, God, if you would have asked me what, and they're going go to 9.5. Holy shit, IMDB.
00:23:58
Jo
People love this fucking show, Paradise. If you would ask me what the fuck Paradise was about before I saw it with you, I thought it was about a dude on a horse having a disagreement with his neighbors.
Sterling K. Brown's Performance and Fitness
00:24:11
Jo
I don't know why I thought this. That's why I'm like, oh. i thought he was like, okay, so, you know, starts off him running and I made a comment because the guy, you know, um, all right. So I made a comment because Sterling Brown looks amazing in this.
00:24:27
Jo
was like, motherfucker, I'm still struggling, you know, and like trying look halfway as good at probably the same age. Um, I have no idea how Sterling Brown is, but just feels like he'd be the same age as me. And just, pssh.
00:24:42
Amelie
He's very fit.
00:24:44
Jo
Shit, we are.
00:24:44
Amelie
like He's very fit.
00:24:45
Jo
He's like a year younger than me. Fuck.
00:24:48
Amelie
Oh.
00:24:49
Jo
But I got like four inches on him. I'm not saying where.
00:24:54
Amelie
Yes.
00:24:54
Jo
Height. It's height. Actually five inches, but still.
00:24:57
Amelie
and land la
00:24:59
Jo
I'm just taller than him. But yeah, no, it's it's weird because you see all these things and I honestly thought it'd be okay. it's the I made a comment like it's the only black guy there. In a very white town.
00:25:12
Amelie
Yes.
00:25:14
Jo
I thought like, okay, he's going to have some problems with Neighbors. It's one of those shows. Got it. It is not. And it's so wonderful because it's not. It could have been just that. And I'm like, oh, that's fine.
00:25:27
Jo
But it's amazing.
00:25:28
Amelie
which They play the game with it because...
00:25:28
Jo
And all the... Yeah.
00:25:32
Amelie
he get came with to but crazy what second sometimes weeks So like, okay, right. great to think no no no no no no like i if
00:25:49
Jo
yeah So we both liked Sterling K. Brown's performance. We slightly like, I mean, for me, I like all the fucking performances in in Paradise. I don't think I'm going to deep dive in every episode.
00:26:04
Jo
i don' mean I didn't know fucking season two starts like in a couple of weeks. I don't have time. Like it, love the show. Maybe one time I'll watch it bit at a time somehow, somewhere.
Final Recommendation for 'Paradise'
00:26:17
Jo
But it's worthy, if you've got the fucking time, you've got a Disney+, you sit your ass down and watch some Paradise. everyone Apparently everyone else is fucking watching it. It's rated 9.7 on fucking IMDb.
00:26:29
Jo
So there we go. We went from a shit show last recording to fucking Paradise. and I can't wait to see what the future brings.
00:26:42
Jo
Or not. i don't know. Maybe I can wait. I have to wait, don't I? Maybe. i don't know. But that's it from us, man. That's it. We've got a quick one. In and out. As they say.
00:26:53
Jo
behalf of myself and my co-host. behalf myself, Jesus. My co-host, Amelie. We bid you good day. Bye, y'all. Go watch Paradise.
00:27:04
Jo
Or not. Watch it. Or not. Bye.