Re: Paradise "Wildcat Is Down"

On Apr 12, 2025 at 11:38:46 AM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:56:42 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
 

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 4/11/25 10:47 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 

Hey! I was able to watch without knowing the revelation, although the
Wikipedia article spoils it.

 

I was impressed with Dan Fogelman's writing. Fogelman has done some good
work for tv, The Neighbors (starring Jami Gertz and Lenny Venito),
Galavant, and Pitch. He does the 27 simultaneous timelines thing as he
did in the pilot episode of This Is Us, also starring Sterling K. Brown
and with a huge revelation. That's annoying.

 

Brown plays Agent Collins.

 

His kid is played by the son of the actor who played Wallace on Veronica
Mars. The president's shrewish ex-wife is played by the evil Tess from
Smallville. The president (seen only in flashback) is played by the
goofy Prince Edward from Enchanted.

 

Freckled-face Julianne Nicholson plays another supervising Secret
Service agent (I think);

 

She is definitely not that!

 

Sarah Shahi is listed but didn't appear.

 

She doesn't appear until episode #2.

 

Jon Beavers is another agent, Billy, whom Collins relies upon who was
coincidentally poisoned and unconscious during the assasination.

 

Not poisoned - just sleeping.

 
That was just coincidence? Ok

 
He's a bit of an idiot. More so than one might expect for a Secret
Service agent on the President's detail, but it helps the story move
forward.

Were they really even Secret Service anymore at that point? And were they all
actually former USSS agents?

I got the impression that they were essentially just personal security since
the world ended and the USSS didn't even exist anymore and that some of them
may not even have been USSS before it all collapsed. Like the psychopathic
little girl agent. She didn't strike me as former USSS, just someone Sinatra
had embedded into the president's security.