History Series / AlmostParadise

** A sad one for Alex as he tries to gets his disability pensions paid up in time. This is explored in "Finding Mabuhay" where he insists that the pension was there is due to Todd Carpenter double crossing the joint DEA-SNP task force.

* RuthlessForeignGangsters: The local gangs can be dangerous but they are mostly small-time. However, Mactan's recent growth as a tourist town has attracted many foreign criminals who like to use the location as a new place to do business. In the pilot a Malaysian drug lord wants to use the area to manufacture a new synthetic form of heroin and he recruits the local gangs as his muscle. He kills the one gang leader who prefers to remain independent.

* TheAce: Prior to them discovering the presence of Alex in Mactan, and him occasionally lending his aid, it was apparent that the local police department had little luck at countering the island's criminal element; in the first episode, he practically awes them with his in-depth knowledge of how drugs are made in and moved from one country or hemisphere to the next without the presiding authorities being the wiser, along with the most likely culprit factions orchestrating such stock-in-trade. And it also helps that he's a non-Asian since it allows him to conduct sting operations on their behalf, more convincingly than any Mactan local, when getting up front with foreign criminals. Kai herself was once busted this way because the person whom she and Alex were trying to intercept instantly identified her as not the person he was supposed to meet, all because she was native to the island.

* TheAce: Prior to them discovering the presence of Alex in Mactan, and him occasionally lending his aid, it was apparent that the local police department had little luck at countering the island's criminal element; in the first episode, he practically awes them with his in-dept knowledge of how drugs are made in and moved from one country to the next without the presiding authorities being the wiser, along with the most likely culprit fractions orchestrating such stock-in-trade. And it also helps that he's a non-Asian since it allows him to conduct sting operations on their behalf more convincingly when getting up front with foreign criminals.

* TheAce: Prior to them discovering the presence of Alex in Mactan, and him occasionally lending his aid, it was apparent that the local police department had little luck at countering the island's criminal element; in the first episode, he practically awes them with his in-dept knowledge of how drugs are made in and moved from one country to the without the presiding authorities being the wiser, along with the most likely culprit fractions orchestrating such stock-in-trade. And it also helps that he's a non-Asian since it allows him to conduct sting operations on their behalf more convincingly when getting up front with foreign criminals.

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''Almost Paradise'' is a 2020 DetectiveDrama show executive produced by Dean Devlin and Gary Rosen (who previously worked on [[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]] together) and staring another Librarians alum, Creator/ChristianKane, as lead Alex Walker (who also worked with Devlin on {{Series/Leverage}}) alongside a bunch of Philippine-based actors/actresses due to the show being co-produced by ABS-CBN and Electric Entertainment. It's schedule to air 10 episodes on WGN America and it's available via Amazon Prime. While the language used is English, there are subtitles for non-English languages, including Tagalog.

** Even ignoring the fallout from his time with the DEA Alex didn't have a very good childhood, apparently losing his parents in some unspecified way when young and being raised by his less then ideal con-artist uncle who frequently made Alex part of his cons.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Thus far averted, as therapy both physical and mental are part of Alex's hypertension treatments. Whether or not Alex actually does his part to participate in his own therapy is another matter though, but for the most part he tries and is seen talking to his doctor.

* A FreezeFrameBonus in "Lone Wolf" shows the State Bureau of Investigation under the Department of Local Affairs, standing in for the National Bureau of Investigation.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Even ignoring the fallout from his time with the DEA Alex didn't have a very good childhood, apparently losing his parents in some unspecified way when young and being raised by his less then ideal con-artist uncle who frequently made Alex part of his cons. Then there's Kai, who was a former juvinial delinquent who cleaned up her act when her mother was murdered when she was young.

* RunningGag: A sad one for Alex as he tries to gets his disability pensions paid up in time. This is explored in "Finding Mabuhay" where he insists that the pension was there is due to Todd Carpenter double crossing the joint DEA-SNP task force.

Alex Walker (Kane), a former DEA agent who was forced into early retirement. Once the DEA’s most [[TheAce resourceful undercover operative]], the combination of [[EtTuBrute his partner’s betrayal]] in a joint operation with the Spanish National Police in Barcelona and a life-threatening battle with hypertension has made him decide to leave the agency and live in Cebu as an expat, where he's employed by Paradise, a resort hotel located in Mactan. While Alex is content to start all over (and while just leaving his only daughter Evelyn to attend to her university studies in America), he ruins a Mactan Police-led undercover op. From there, Alex does lend a hand to his new friends in the MPD by using his law enforcement experience while trying to ensure that he pays the bills in Paradise (mostly for rent and other utilities that he may encounter in the hotel) and attends to the needs of the hotel's guests.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Even ignoring the fallout from his time with the DEA Alex didn't have a very good childhood, apparently lossing his parents in some unspecified way when young and being raised by his less then ideal con-artist uncle who frequently made Alex part of his cons. Then there's Kai, who was a former juvinial delinquent who straitened up her act when her mother was murdered when she was young

* ThereAreNoTherapist: Thus far averted, as therapy both physical and mental are part of Alex's hypertension treatments. Whether or not Alex actually does his part to participate in his own therapy is another matter though, but for the most part he tries and is seen talking to his doctor.

* RunningGag: A sad one for Alex as he tries to gets his disability pensions paid up in time. This is explored in "Finding Mabuhay" where he insists that the pension was there is due to Todd Carpenter double crossing the joint DEA-SNP task force.

''Almost Paradise'' is a 2020 DetectiveDrama show executive produced by Dean Devlin and Gary Rosen (who previously worked on [[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]] together) and staring another Librarians alum, Creator/ChristianKane, as lead Alex Walker (who also worked with Devlin on {{Series/Leverage}}) alongside a bunch of Philippine-based actors/actresses due to the show being co-produced by ABS-CBN and Electric Entertainment. It's schedule to air 10 episodes on WGN America and it's available via Amazon Prime.

Premiering in early 2020 Almost Paradise is executive produced by Dean Devlin and Gary Rosen (who previously worked on Series/TheLibrarians2014 together) and staring another Librarians alum Creator/ChristianKane as lead Alex Walker (who also worked with Devlin on {{Series/Leverage}})

Almost Paradise centers on Alex Walker (Kane), a former US DEA agent who was forced into early retirement. Once the DEA’s most [[TheAce resourceful undercover operative]], the combination of [[EtTuBrute his partner’s betrayal]] and a life-threatening battle with hypertension has sent him as far from the madness as he can go… a small tropical island in the Philippine Archipelago. He now runs the gift shop in the island’s luxury resort hotel, gets his disability payments at the US Naval base, and generally manages his transition from Jason Bourne to Jimmy Buffett. But the island’s luxury resort has attracted rich, powerful, and sometimes criminal elite from around the world, often on a collision course with Alex. Despite his best efforts to begin a tranquil new life, he’s pulled back into a world of dangerous people and deadly situations, either through his friends in the local police or running into people from his old life. And the problem is, he likes it.

Almost Paradise centers on Alex Walker (Kane), a former US DEA agent who was forced into early retirement. Once the DEA’s most [[TheAce resourceful undercover operative]], the combination of [[EtTuBrute his partner’s betrayal]] and a life-threatening battle with hypertension has sent him as far from the madness as he can go… a small tropical island in the Philippine Archipelago. He now runs the gift shop in the island’s luxury resort hotel, gets his disability payments at the US Naval base, and generally manages his transition from Jason Bourne to Jimmy Buffett. But the island’s luxury resort has attracted rich, powerful, and sometimes criminal elite from around the world, often on a collision course with Alex. Despite his best efforts to begin a tranquil new life, he’s pulled back into a world of dangerous people and deadly situations, either through his friends in the local police or running into people from his old life. And the problem is, he likes it.

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Almost Paradise centers on Alex Walker (Kane), a former US DEA agent who was forced into early retirement. Once the DEA’s most [[TheAce resourceful undercover operative]], the combination of his partner’s betrayal and a life-threatening battle with hypertension has sent him as far from the madness as he can go… a small tropical island in the Philippine Archipelago. He now runs the gift shop in the island’s luxury resort hotel, gets his disability payments at the US Naval base, and generally manages his transition from Jason Bourne to Jimmy Buffett. But the island’s luxury resort has attracted rich, powerful, and sometimes criminal elite from around the world, often on a collision course with Alex. Despite his best efforts to begin a tranquil new life, he’s pulled back into a world of dangerous people and deadly situations, either through his friends in the local police or running into people from his old life. And the problem is, he likes it.

Premiering in early 2020 Almost Paradise is executive produced by Dean Devlin and Gary Rosen (who previously worked on Series/TheLibrarians2014 together) and staring another Librarians alum Creator/ChristianKane as lead Alex Walker (who also worked with Devlin on [[Series/Leverage]])

Almost Paradise centers on Alex Walker (Kane), a former US DEA agent who was forced into early retirement. Once the DEA’s most resourceful undercover operative, the combination of his partner’s betrayal and a life-threatening battle with hypertension has sent him as far from the madness as he can go… a small tropical island in the Philippine Archipelago. He now runs the gift shop in the island’s luxury resort hotel, gets his disability payments at the US Naval base, and generally manages his transition from Jason Bourne to Jimmy Buffett. But the island’s luxury resort has attracted rich, powerful, and sometimes criminal elite from around the world, often on a collision course with Alex. Despite his best efforts to begin a tranquil new life, he’s pulled back into a world of dangerous people and deadly situations, either through his friends in the local police or running into people from his old life. And the problem is, he likes it.

Premiering in early 2020 Almost Paradise is executive produced by Dean Devlin and Gary Rosen (who previously worked on Series/TheLiberians2014 together) and staring another Librarians alum Creator/ChristianKane as lead Alex Walker (who also worked with Devlin on Series/Leverage)

Premiering in early 2020 Almost Paradise is executive produced by Dean Devlin and Gary Rosen (who previously worked on TheLiberians together) and staring another Librarians alum Creator/ChristianKane as lead Alex Walker (who also worked with Devlin on [[Leverage]])

Premiering in early 2020 Almost Paradise is executive produced by Dean Devlin and Gary Rosen (who previously worked on TheLiberians together) and staring another Librarians alum ChristianKane as lead Alex Walker (who also worked with Devlin on [[Leverage]])

Premering in early 2020 Almost Paradise follows former DEA Agent Alex Walker in as he attempts to make the best of his forced early retirement by running a gift shop in the Philippines