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Almost Paradise
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Almost Paradise

Mon, Mar 30, 2020
  • Action & Adventure
  • Drama
  • Crime
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

A former DEA agent forced into early retirement runs a gift shop in in the Philippines. 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 department or running into people from his old life. And the problem is: he likes it.

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Cast

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  • Christian Kane
    Christian Kane
    as Alex Walker
  • Samantha Richelle
    Samantha Richelle
    as Kai Mendoza
  • Art Acuña
    Art Acuña
    as Ernesto Alamares
  • Nonie Buencamino
    Nonie Buencamino
    as Ike Ocampo
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Episodes

2 seasons · 20 episodes

Ended · 20 aired
Season 1
10 episodes · 10 aired
▾
  • E1
    Finding Mabuhay
    Aired · Tue, Mar 31, 2020 · 60m

    An ex-Dea agent falls back into his undercover operative ways when he is pulled into a drug sting by police after he retires to a tranquil resort in the Philippines.

  • E2
    It's Personal
    Aired · Tue, Apr 7, 2020 · 60m

    Alex suspects international smugglers may be involved with a body that washes up on the beach.

  • E3
    Reef Eel Soup for the Soul
    Aired · Tue, Apr 14, 2020 · 60m

    When Alex discovers that a group of mobsters are shaking down local street-food vendors, he goes undercover as a Spanish crime lord to bring the criminals to justice. But when he learns that a murderous international businessman is pulling the strings, he realizes that the implications for the future of Cebu are far worse than he ever imagined.

  • E4
    Pistol Whip
    Aired · Tue, Apr 21, 2020 · 60m

    When a crew for a reality TV show exploring sunken WWII battlegrounds arrives at the resort, Alex's need for rent-money ensnares him in an illicit dive operation with potentially catastrophic consequences.

  • E5
    Unbecalming
    Aired · Tue, Apr 28, 2020 · 60m

    When a typhoon hits the Island, criminals and their hostages are trapped inside the police station. Alex must find a way to save his friends... as well as a sworn enemy – a US State Department bureaucrat there to "do a deal" with an arms dealer Alex had recently captured.

  • E6
    Rise of the Kalangay
    Aired · Tue, May 5, 2020 · 60m

    Alex, feeling competitive, races to solve a murder before a celebrated detective can find the killer. Things take a turn for the personal when Alex realizes the crime leads back to the murder of Kai's mother fifteen years before

  • E7
    Uncle Danny
    Aired · Tue, May 12, 2020 · 60m

    Alex's con-artist Uncle Danny comes for a visit to make amends and Alex finds himself caught between protecting the world from his Uncle and protecting his Uncle from Kai and Ernesto... and a very pissed off mafia leg breaker

  • E8
    Lone Wolf
    Aired · Tue, May 19, 2020 · 60m

    When Alex takes a job protecting a country singer he idolizes, he quickly learns that you should never meet your heroes. But when the singer is kidnapped, Alex must figure out who is really behind the crime and rescue him before it's too late

  • E9
    A Wedding to Die For
    Aired · Tue, May 26, 2020 · 60m

    Alex's curiosity entangles him in Kai's undercover assignment at the wedding of a notorious triad boss, which turns ugly after a member of the wedding party is murdered.

  • E10
    Something Walker This Way Comes
    Aired · Tue, Jun 2, 2020 · 60m

    Alex races to save his daughter when his old partner comes to town to finish the job he started.

Season 2
10 episodes · 10 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Magellan Cross
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 2023 · 50m

    A local priest is murdered over a long-lost ancient cross, the cross which Magellan held in his hand the day he was killed by Lapu-Lapu in the Battle of Mactan. Alex, Kai, and Ernesto must solve the priest's murder and find the lost relic before it can land in the wrong hands.

  • E2
    Breaking Badminton
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 2023 · 43m

    When Alex's friend from the local gym is found murdered, Alex investigates and discovers his friend was involved in an underground badminton competition. Alex and Ernesto must go undercover as badminton players to solve the murder, and in the process, end up exposing a drug smuggling ring.

  • E3
    A Fisherfolk Tale
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 2023 · 44m

    Alex befriends a boat mechanic wrongfully accused of murder in a remote fishing village, and, along with Kai and Ernesto, unravels an international smuggling operation and resolves a local blood feud in order to prove the man's innocence.

  • E4
    Bahala Na
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 2023 · 48m

    When Alex temporarily moves in with Ernesto, he is drawn into a family drama that transcends generations, spans decades, and proves that, indeed, "the past is never dead; it is not even past."

  • E5
    Deus Ex-Wife Machina
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 2023 · 45m

    Alex's ex-wife shows up with her new fiancé asking Alex to sign their divorce papers, but when the fiancé is mistaken for Alex and kidnapped by an old enemy, Alex finds himself racing to rescue the man.

  • E6
    Ghost Month
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 2023 · 47m

    During the traditional "Ghost Month" in the Philippines, Alex seems to be visited by the spirit of a dead man, wrongly accused of a crime, who seeks justice from the afterlife.

  • E7
    All In
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 2023 · 46m

    Before the grand opening of Mactan's new resort casino owned and operated by the Villegas family, Ann Villegas recruits Alex to test the casino's security designed by the great Barton Coyne. Alex assembles a team - including Kai, Ernesto, and Ernesto's cousin Angelo - to pull off a mock heist.

  • E8
    Uncoupled
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 2023 · 47m

    Kai and Alex go undercover as a New Age-y couple at a self-help retreat in order to extract a naïve young woman from the clutches of a dangerous cult.

  • E9
    Old Times
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 2023 · 45m

    When Alex entangles himself in a homicide investigation on behalf of his love interest, Ann Villegas, he is forced to befriend a geriatric couple with peculiar personality traits, coming to terms with the fact that life - and people - are often more complicated than they appear.

  • E10
    Brigade
    Aired · Fri, Jul 21, 2023 · 45m

    Alex goes undercover as a prisoner and, with the help of Kai and Ernesto, figures out how The Waterboarder has been running his criminal empire from behind bars.