Paradise
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Today, this show is so serious.
I wassweatingby the end.
Its easily the best of the season.
Instead, it starts out on another day, many, many years before: October 28, 1962.
What if the wrong persons at the control next time?
Its a terrifying thought for him, for us.
A metaphor for how easy it is to end the world?
Time, and the rest of this episode, will tell.
Suddenly, we are in the middle of another important day.
Nope, not The Day yet.
There are a lot of days to get through, okay?!
Were back in Samantha Redmonds living room, and Xavier has a gun pulled on her.
Shes just told him that his wife is alive out on the surface.
Oh, buddy, does Xavier getangry.
She thinks Teri is one of them.
As much as he wants to believe, Xavier says its impossible.
But Samantha has news for him: The president did something that day that nobody knows about.
Something that might have made the impossible very, very possible.
Finally, the titular day.
It is chaos in the White House.
Something new and exciting for me to stress about at 3 a.m. Melbourne and Sydney are already underwater.
South Africa is gone.
Nuclear weapons are being prepped.
This is … well, this is the end of the world.
He calls for the Versailles Protocol, and were off.
Even with these hills and valleys, the chaos just grows and grows.
The desperation sets in.
As they pile into the elevator and the doors close, there are shots heard in the hallway.
The amount of trauma is staggering!!
The vibe at the airplane hangar as flights for Colorado begin to take off isnt any less chaotic.
So now everyone is on the planes and headed to Colorado and everything is calm and cool once again.
Its still a nightmare and everything is terrible.
Xavier is reunited with his kids but cant bring himself to explain where their mother is.
Its the only way to save the bunker.
And then he lets her in on a little secret.
It will render useless everything from microwaves to, yes, nuclear warheads.
Samantha argues against it so Samantha, am I right?
because the bunker needs outside censors to keep track of the surface and this would leave them all vulnerable.
Hes made his decision and if she doesnt leave his office, hell have her shot.
Shes seen him stand up as a leader and make and stick to hard choices.
It may not take out every nuke, but it will stop a lot of them.
He assumes, as anyone would, that the missile hit its target and his wife is dead.
But now he knows what Cal did.
But its not like Samantha is going to make this easy for him.
In fact, shes going to make it as brutal as possible.
Its here that she informs him that she has his daughter.
The little maybe I am a monster, Samantha drops as she leaves the room is chilling.
Will the newly announced season two open up theParadiseworld a bit?
c’mon say oui.
Okay, Ill admit it, that best fucking hamburgers I ever had line did make me tear up.
My defenses were down, okay?
This was all very stressful!!
