Spoiler Alert: This list includes spoilers for ‘Paradise’ Season 1.
They live in a manufactured world;a bunker housing just 25,000 people following a global cataclysmic event.
Paradisecleverly incorporates needle dropsof well-known songs in between intense moments.
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This goes beyondSiddartha Khoslas composing which, too, supports the drama.
From cover songs to bonafide classics, these are the best needle drops inParadise, ranked.
…The use of Knockin on Heavens Door as an omen of death is done subtly and beautifully.
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This makes the lyrics of Sandy Szigetis cover of Make Believe World all the more ironic.
Their world is make-believe, in many ways.
Yetthe problems they face murder, conspiracy, catastrophe are all too real.
This makes the lyrics of Sandy Szigetis cover of Make Believe World all the more ironic.
There is no real wind down in the bunker, or real sunlight, or real trees.
But there are weapons.
And thats a start to break out of their Make Believe World.
Its simple and sweet, like their budding romance in an otherwise dark series.
This needle drop offers one ofParadises few uplifting momentsas Presley and Jeremy watch the simulated ocean.
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Its simple and sweet, like their budding romance in an otherwise dark series.
This does not happen.
Cal was unable to go his own way, but things are changing with the next generation.
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Cal was unable to go his own way, but things are changing with the next generation.
Her previous life was plagued by the loss of her child.
She took this tragedy and built the underground bunker based on survival, rather than empathy.
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This name stuck, as did her reputation.
Messages continue to appear in the sky.
We learn that he spent much of his youth in prison after killing his father.
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But this isnt the Billy presented to viewers in the underground city.
As it turns out,Sinatra brought Billy to be a potential killing machine; his history follows him.
Or maybe the rose is his girlfriend, Jane Driscoll (Nicole Brydon Bloom).
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Beyond her sweet exterior, the otherwise innocent agent is capable of murder beyond what anyone could imagine.
There are many thorns in Paradise.
Presley finds the tablet with information on the world-ending events.
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Jeremy sits in his fathers presidential plane scrolling through his final texts with his father.
Xavier stands on a crowded street, glaring into the lamp illuminating fake sunlight.
At its core, Eye of the Tiger is about resilience and the ability to overcome challenges.
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Or rather, Xavier stares through it, knowing that Sinatra is on the other side.
At its core, Eye of the Tiger is about resilience and the ability to overcome challenges.
They return to Xaviers home and sleep together in a moment of vulnerability for these two otherwise closed-off characters.
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So,he leaves breadcrumbs for his son before his untimely death.
Paradise was intended to be a haven.
Those in power decided who was worthy of surviving there.
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But it goes deeper.
In Episode 8, Sinatra tells the architect to Build me a city.
This city, of course, was built on lies and access only to the privileged.
Only viewers have more certainty as to whatParadiseis all about anything but.
Xavier prepares the presidential plane to find his wife.
Is he breaking out of Paradise?
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