Paradise fans know Sterling K. Brown's wife, Ryan Michelle Bathé, is the perfect host for the show's companion podcast - but she took some convincing. "Initially, I was a little bit lukewarm about doing the podcast because I was like, 'There's no way [they can top season 1],'" Bathé, 49, who is also appearing in a mystery role in season 2, exclusively told Us Weekly. "[Creator] Dan [Fogelman] is a genius. He's got great writers but I thought that it's not going to be as good as season 1." Bathé was happy to be proven wrong. "How do you top perfection? You can't match perfection.