{"id":38559,"date":"2025-03-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38559"},"modified":"2025-03-15T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T14:44:22","slug":"38559","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38559","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Paradise&#8221;: Season 1\u00a0(2025) starring Sterling K. Brown; Julianne Nicholson and James Marsden \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z111424paradise_pt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Paradise<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>: Season 1<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p>Created by: <strong>Dan Fogelman\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Glenn Ficarra <\/strong>&amp; <strong>John Requa<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Eps. 1-2; 7-8); <strong>Gandja Monteiro<\/strong> (Eps. 3-4); <strong>Hanelle Culpepper<\/strong> (Eps. 5-6)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teleplay: <strong>Dan Fogelman<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Ep. 1); <strong>Dan Fogelman<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Katie French\u00a0<\/strong>(Ep. 2); <strong>Jason Wilborn<\/strong> (Ep. 3); <strong>Scott Weinger<\/strong> (Ep. 4); <strong>Stephen Markley<\/strong> (Ep. 5); <strong>Gina Lucita Monreal<\/strong> (Ep. 6); <strong>John Hoberg<\/strong> (Ep. 7); <strong>Nadra Widatalla<\/strong> (Ep. 8)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson<\/strong><strong>, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Aliyah Mastin, James Marsden, Krys Marshall, Cassidy Freeman, Scott Lawrence, Richard Robichaux, Gerald McRaney, Rafael Cabrera, Eddie Diaz, Roberto Portales, Christopher Sanders, Matt Malloy, Tuc Watkins, Geoffrey Arend, Charlie Evans, Ian Merrigan, Vien Hong, Carlos Sanz, Michelle Meredith, Glynn Turman, Ca&#8217;Ron Jaden Coleman, Micah Fitzgerald, Amy Pietz, Joe Holt, Tyler Jacob Moore, Walter Belenky <\/strong>and<strong> Jon Beavers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Read between the lies<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xavier Collins (Brown) is part of the President&#8217;s Secret Service detail and the last person to see him alive.\u00a0 The President was killed sometime during the night.\u00a0 When Xavier is brought in for questioning, he realizes that it may be up to him to find the person who killed the President.<\/p>\n<p>And the answer to that isn&#8217;t the biggest plot twist!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I went into <em>Paradise<\/em>: Season 1 thinking it would be a murder mystery with behind-the-scenes intrigue, double crosses, action and more.\u00a0 It is, but on a much larger scale than I imagined.\u00a0 The first episode plot twist is a shocker and sets up the entire season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Paradise<\/em> has a great cast of actors.\u00a0 Standouts include Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, Aliyah Mastin, James Marsden, Glynn Turman and Jon Beavers.<\/p>\n<p>I love all episodes of <em>Paradise<\/em>, but episode 7 is a standout.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Paradise<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>: Season 1<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2025) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z031525zview_paradise.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradise: Season 1\u00a0(2025) Created by: Dan Fogelman\u00a0 Director: Glenn Ficarra &amp; John Requa\u00a0(Eps. 1-2; 7-8); Gandja Monteiro (Eps. 3-4); Hanelle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38562,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38559\/revisions\/38562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}