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Jan 29, 2025

Will You Find Any Trouble In Paradise?

Rolling Stone’s chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall is back for Hulu’s dystopian thriller starring Sterling K. Brown, plus a Better Call Saul Canon pitch and more!

Sterling K. Brown takes the lead in Paradise, and in the investigation that drives Hulu’s new paranoid thriller — and Rolling Stone‘s lead TV critic, Alan Sepinwall, is back to discuss both. Do the layered flashbacks work better for this material than for Brown’s previous Dan Fogelman project, This Is Us? Does the dumb world-building outweigh the watchable acting? After we talked about how this underground/domed world stacked up against others on TV, we went Around The Dial with Common Side Effects, Mythic Quest, and the latest documentary from the Ken Burns Industrial Complex before Alan carefully constructed a Canon pitch for a Better Call Saul episode. Jennifer Garner won, Don Lemon lost, and what hark through yonder earbud breaks but a Shakespearean Game Time. Pack a bag for Colorado and join us!

Episode Rundown

Announcement

Lead Topic

Around The Dial

The Canon

Winner & Loser

Game Time

Episode Notes

Episode Transcript