Paradise’s Writer Explains How The Hulu Show Is Pretty Much A Western

Few filmmaking tricks are as simple yet clever as the Texas Switch, in which an actor slyly swaps spots with their stunt double while the camera keeps rolling. So, you’ll appreciate my meaning when I say that creator Dan Fogelman executes a perfect genre Texas Switch in the premiere for his Hulu series “Paradise.” To be sure, the episode never so much as cracks a smile as it presents itself as a by-the-book political thriller about the mysterious murder of one fictional U.S. President Cal Bradford (James Marsden). It’s only in its closing moments that the premiere reveals what its lead, Sterling K. Brown‘s strapping Secret Service Agent Xavier Collins,…