Paradise (TV Program)

The Sudden Weirdness of TV Presidents

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The Sudden Weirdness of TV Presidents

You can’t say that TV’s fictional presidencies lack for drama today. In “Zero Day,” the former President George Mullen (Robert DeNiro) sleuths out the source of a debilitating cyberattack. In “Paradise,” the feckless nepo baby President Cal Bradford (James Marsden) shoulders responsibility for humankind after an extinction-level volcanic eruption (and, …

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Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman, a Team Again in “Paradise’

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Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman, a Team Again in “Paradise’

Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman realize that some viewers might want another “This Is Us.” That tear-jerking NBC hit, which Fogelman created, was a sprawling, time-hopping family drama in which Brown played Randall Pearson, the adopted Black son in a white family who is grappling with his mental health. …

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