7.7/10597 votesLoading...#1 - 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
7.9/10435 votesLoading...#2 - 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
8.0/10211 votesLoading...#3 - 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
8.1/10461 votesLoading...#4 - 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
8.1/10443 votesLoading...#5 - 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
8.1/10418 votesLoading...#6 - 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
8.1/10441 votesLoading...#7 - 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
8.1/10207 votesLoading...#8 - 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
8.2/10491 votesLoading...#9 - 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
8.2/10396 votesLoading...#10 - 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
8.2/10245 votesLoading...#11 - 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
8.2/10217 votesLoading...#12 - 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
8.2/10199 votesLoading...#13 - 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
8.2/10192 votesLoading...#14 - 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
8.3/10448 votesLoading...#15 - 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
8.5/10206 votesLoading...#16 - 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
8.5/10175 votesLoading...#17 - 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
8.6/10231 votesLoading...#18 - 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
8.7/10463 votesLoading...#19 - 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
8.8/10196 votesLoading...#20 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Almost Paradise
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Finding Mabuhay" is the worst rated episode of "Almost Paradise". It scored 7.7/10 based on 597 votes. Directed by Marc Roskin and written by Dean Devlin, Gary Rosen, it aired on 3/30/2020. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Rise of the Kalangay".