Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, and welcome into The Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom. I am Ben Lindberg, senior editor for The Ringer, your host at Button Mash, also your master of ceremonies here at Ringerverse Recommends, along with my loyal companion, Grumpkin the Dachshund, who accompanies me for this intro today.
Chapter 2: What is the main theme of 'Paradise' and why is it compelling?
As usual... It's the monthly tradition here at the Ringiverse. At the end of each month, we round up some of the many nerd culture releases that we liked, but weren't able to cover in depth on a full length episode, at least as of yet. And we tell you why we liked them and why you might like them.
Obviously, this has been a busy, crowded month, but as always, some stuff has slipped through the cracks, and we'll be covering some of it today. Our spotlight feature conversation will involve me and Mr. Van Lathan, and we will be talking about Paradise Season 2 on Hulu, which just wrapped up this week. Van and I are big fans of the show.
We're going to talk about it first in a general, introductory, non-spoilery sense, but then And then for those who are current on the show, we will have a spoiler section where we talk about the wild end of season two. That will be clearly noted on the show notes for this episode. Also on the show notes, the other recommendations that will follow. my conversation with Van.
So if you want to skip ahead to some of the shorter clips or go back and find them later, you can do so. And as always, there will be a listener submission. You can nominate recommendations by going to ringerverserecommends at gmail.com. Send us some text. Send us a video. Send us an audio recording. Whatever medium, we will accept it and we'll be happy to include it.
Chapter 3: What are the highlights of 'Paradise' Season 2 finale without spoilers?
But we do have several clips to get to this month.
Chapter 4: What are the important plot points discussed in the spoiler section of 'Paradise'?
Now, I'm actually double dipping in addition to the main conversation. I'm going to pop back up for a mid-episode recommendation because we had a late scratch. Our friend Charles Holmes, he was all set to recommend the end of the Chainsaw Man manga, and then he fell ill. and was not able to complete his sacred task. And so I will be showing up again to make a recommendation.
You know, it's a tough time for us Trekkies or Trekkers, but I'm going to make the best of the situation and tell you about a little Star Trek show that I think you might actually like if you can get past some initial resistance. Resistance is not futile in this case. So let's get right to it. I'll be back at the end, of course, to recap all the selections and share the listener nomination.
But I don't want to delay my conversation with Van. Well, for me, Paradise is podcasting with Van Lathan. So podcasting with Van Lathan about Paradise. I need a new word for that. Maybe that's nirvana, whatever it is. Always happy to have you here on Ringiverse Recommends. Welcome, Van.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to me. I'm happy to be here. Thank you. Thank you for the warm welcome.
I love this show. Me too. And you've recommended this show on Ringiverse Recommends, but it's worthy of more than a short clip. We just have much more to say about this show. And I think this is the perfect place for it because, you know, maybe it's not prestige enough for our esteemed colleagues over on the Prestige TV feed to
elitists hoity-toity tv snobs looking down at uh entertainment for the common people and so we're slumming it here on ringverse recommends with the show that we care about quite a bit so we've been watching since the start season two just concluded so we will get into spoiler territory later we will warn you don't worry we'll talk about the finale a lot happened
But first, high level, let's just talk about how we got into the show, why we liked it, the premise. Take us back to the start. Take us back to season one.
This is a Kalika thing. Hold on for a second. Kalika! This is a podcast first. I cannot in any way take credit for this. Listen, podcast audiences, you're listening. I'm hoping that all of this gets kept in. I'm hoping that she gets over here. Yeah. She's the Terry to your Xavier.
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Chapter 5: What recommendations were made by the Ringer-Verse hosts this month?
She should be here. I don't know how she got into the show.
Chapter 6: What makes Arjuna's movie recommendation stand out?
I'm not sure what happened, but she kept telling me that the show was good.
Chapter 7: How does Matt describe the gameplay experience of Mini Shoot Adventures?
Come on. She kept telling me that the show was good. Hello. Talk to Ben Lindberg. Hey. Hi, Ben. Good to see you. Okay, come to Ben. Ben's question is, get on the mic, Kalika. When it's a microphone, it makes things. Oh, okay. I'm sorry.
Let me lean in.
So tell the audience how you got me into the show Paradise. I don't remember. Did you have to twist his arm? No. You don't remember?
Did you resist? I don't remember exact details, but I remember telling you that it was one of the best shows. Love Sterling K. Brown. And then I made you watch, I think it's like episode, is it episode five or six where they show how everything happened?
Oh yeah.
That's the one I made you watch.
Yeah. Yeah.
I didn't make them watch from the beginning.
That was the first one I ever watched. All right. So then I went back and watched. And that episode is interesting because Paradise does something that's really, this is unconventional podcasting that you're doing right now. Paradise does something that is really interesting is that most of the shows you could watch by themselves. They have full narrative arcs.
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Chapter 8: What insights does Ben share about the future of Star Trek and its current state?
And I got to say, Ben Lindbergh, it... delivered from the jump. From the jump, it comes out. I'm like, what the hell? Who is this character? What is she going to do? And then the twists and turns were almost infinite until we got to the end and got a whole new adventure. A whole new adventure. And Kalika. Kalika is the one. I wanted to give her credit.
Say hello to the podcast world one more time before you leave.
Hi, podcasters. Shout out to Shailene Woodley. I feel like she does it, like, give her all the nominations. She was great. She was great. She was exciting. I'm glad you liked it.
Thank you, Kalika. This is recommending at work. I mean, this is how it works right here.
So she recommended to me, then I watched, then I recommended to you guys, and now we're on recommends, like, finishing up the season.
Yeah. I think it was episode seven, I think, the standout in season one. It's called The Day, and it just takes you back through the disaster. So the setup here, this is a post-apocalyptic show. We follow Xavier, played by Sterling K. Brown. He's a Secret Service agent, and so he gets to go to the bunker, and you get to go underground.
And this isn't really, I mean, this all becomes clear quite quickly, right? So then it just pulls back further and further, and we figure out, well, what was the disaster? And we learn a little bit more about the nature and was it natural causes or was it not? Or was it some combination of both? And then how do you keep this society going in the bunker? And then it gets even broader and bigger.
And it's about rebuilding the world and what's going on outside the bunker. But it's just... You know, it's kind of a classic nonstop thrill ride of a show. It's just it's eight episodes per season and they're not saving anything for season six or whatever. Like there might be a roadmap here, but they're not holding back.
And I think there's a reason why they're able to do that. We were watching the season finale. A remark to Kalika, I said, there's something weird that's happening right now. She was like, what is that? I said, this feels like it's really happening.
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