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The Best Episodes of Almost Paradise

Every episode of Almost Paradise ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Almost Paradise!

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...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Brigade" is the best rated episode of "Almost Paradise". It scored 8.8/10 based on 196 votes. Directed by Francis dela Torre and written by Sean Presant, it aired on 7/20/2023. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Something Walker This Way Comes".

  • Brigade
    8.8/10196 votes
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    #1 - Brigade

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 7/20/2023

    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.

    Director: Francis dela Torre

    Writer: Sean Presant

  • Something Walker This Way Comes
    8.7/10463 votes
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    #2 - Something Walker This Way Comes

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/1/2020

    The partner who betrayed Alex shows up on the island, and Alex's long-absent daughter shows up on his doorstep to tell him she's joined the Peace Corps.

    Director: Dean Devlin

    Writer: Sean Presant

  • Bahala Na
    8.6/10231 votes
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    #3 - Bahala Na

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 7/20/2023

    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.”

    Director: Dan Villegas

    Writer: Calvin Sloan

  • All In
    8.5/10206 votes
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    #4 - All In

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 7/20/2023

    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.

    Director: Irene Villamor

    Writer: Kristen Cloke, Glen Morgan

  • Old Times
    8.5/10175 votes
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    #5 - Old Times

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 7/20/2023

    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.

    Director: Marc Roskin

    Writer: Calvin Sloan

  • Unbecalming
    8.3/10448 votes
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    #6 - Unbecalming

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/27/2020

    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.

    Director: Milan Todorović

    Writer: Kerry Glover

  • It's Personal
    8.2/10491 votes
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    #7 - It's Personal

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/6/2020

    When the body of a friend of Detective Alamares washes up on a beach, Alex suspects the international smugglers who just checked in at the resort may be involved. While Ernesto tracks down the murderer, Alex goes under cover with Detective Kai.

    Director: Marc Roskin

    Writer: Dean Devlin

  • A Wedding to Die For
    8.2/10396 votes
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    #8 - A Wedding to Die For

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/25/2020

    Kai is assigned to a clandestine intelligence operation during the wedding of Tommy Chow aka the Scorpion, the boss of the Qin Xiong Di, Hong Kong's most brutal Triad. Alex is unintentionally dragged in the deadly dangerous game.

    Director: Hannah Espia

    Writer: Calvin Sloan

  • The Magellan Cross
    8.2/10245 votes
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    #9 - The Magellan Cross

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/20/2023

    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.

    Director: Dean Devlin

    Writer: Dean Devlin, Gary Rosen

  • Breaking Badminton
    8.2/10217 votes
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    #10 - Breaking Badminton

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/20/2023

    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.

    Director: Gary L. Camp

    Writer: Marco Schnabel

  • Ghost Month
    8.2/10199 votes
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    #11 - Ghost Month

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/20/2023

    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.

    Director: Irene Villamor

    Writer: James Wong

  • Uncoupled
    8.2/10192 votes
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    #12 - Uncoupled

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 7/20/2023

    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.

    Director: Hannah Espia

    Writer: Kerry Glover

  • Reef Eel Soup for the Soul
    8.1/10461 votes
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    #13 - Reef Eel Soup for the Soul

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/13/2020

    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.

    Director: Francis dela Torre

    Writer: Ty Freer, Nick Keetch

  • Pistol Whip
    8.1/10443 votes
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    #14 - Pistol Whip

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/20/2020

    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.

    Director: Dan Villegas

    Writer: Calvin Sloan

  • Uncle Danny
    8.1/10418 votes
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    #15 - Uncle Danny

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/11/2020

    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.

    Director: Francis dela Torre

    Writer: Gary Rosen

  • Lone Wolf
    8.1/10441 votes
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    #16 - Lone Wolf

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/18/2020

    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.

    Director: Irene Villamor

    Writer: Ty Freer, Nick Keetch

  • Deus Ex-Wife Machina
    8.1/10207 votes
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    #17 - Deus Ex-Wife Machina

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 7/20/2023

    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.

    Director: Francis dela Torre

    Writer: Sean Presant

  • A Fisherfolk Tale
    8.0/10211 votes
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    #18 - A Fisherfolk Tale

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/20/2023

    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.

    Director: Dan Villegas

    Writer: Calvin Sloan

  • Rise of the Kalangay
    7.9/10435 votes
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    #19 - Rise of the Kalangay

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/4/2020

    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.

    Director: Hannah Espia

    Writer: Sean Presant

  • Finding Mabuhay
    7.7/10597 votes
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    #20 - Finding Mabuhay

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/30/2020

    When an ex-DEA agent retires to a tranquil, out-of-the-way resort in the Philippines, he finds himself falling back into his undercover operative ways when he's pulled into a drug sting run by the local police department.

    Director: Marc Roskin

    Writer: Dean Devlin, Gary Rosen