You can’t say you didn’t see it coming. All throughout its second season, Paradise has been building to a science-fictional scenario that’s frankly preposterous even by Paradise standards. This episode confirms it. Yes, Dan Fogelman is really going there: He’s created a competent billionaire who wants to save the planet. And oh, right, there’s time travel or something.
If the second Trump administration has done anything for us, it has given us a glimpse of how billionaires operate when handed absolute power to go with their functionally unlimited money. The results — DOGE destroying USAID, attacks on the country’s health and education systems, both AI and ICE unleashed without regulation, the Iran War — speak for themselves.
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Meanwhile, when was the last time a billionaire made anything that contributed positively to your life, humanity, the planet? Self-driving
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