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If the loose threads of this season are tied together in a way that pays off next year, Paradise will have avoided the curse of shows that never capitalized on their initial wonder. But right now it feels stuck more in TV purgatory than paradise.
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“Paradise” covers a lot of ground, physically, in Season 2, but it doesn’t appear any closer to finding its identity.
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It’s just a collision of characters and ideas and subplots, resulting in the rubble — some of it salvageable and some of it less so — of something that used to run smoothly enough.
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The things that grate remain (Really, we’re going to end a climactic showdown at the bunker’s gates with a self-serious rendition of “The Final Countdown”?), but the new characters we get just aren’t compelling enough to wallpaper over the fact we’ve lost, or neutered, the old characters we loved last time around. There are a few pulpy delights here and there, but this particular apocalypse moves a bit too slowly for my taste.
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This once-tantalizing show appears to have permanently lost its way.
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