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2 weeks agoThe Forsytes Recap: Dance, My Puppets
The Forsyte Saga offers engaging character development and melodrama, contrasting with The Gilded Age's less compelling storytelling.
Paradise is a good show. I have to get that out of the way early, because I do think that it's fun and well-plotted and knotted with enough twists to sustain a strong momentum throughout its eight-episode seasons. The premise is simple enough, though doled out slowly throughout the first episode: President Cal Bradford (played with charm by James Marsden) is murdered, and Secret Service agent Xavier Collins (a sometimes-bored, sometimes-transcendent Sterling K. Brown) is trying to figure out whodunit.
Tracy Morgan, as a presence, as a persona, bends the rules of comedy spacetime around him. Give this guy a non-sequitur, the nonner the better, and he'll shout that sucker at the top of his fool lungs, and absolutely kill, every time.