On this particular day, she was responsible for shooting a huge piece of the bunker evacuation in Season 2, Episode 8, “Exodus.” There’s former billionaires throwing their stuff out in the rush of packing, terror in the streets, the (fake) sky literally falling down. Those don’t work without the pure visual storytelling beats of character emotion that Culpepper balances them with. Hanelle M. Culpepper behind the scenes of ‘Paradise’ DisneyIn the Season 2 finale of “Paradise,” Culpepper gets to direct a very affecting moment where everything stops. We needed to figure out which pieces to shoot, and how, and where to hand it off, so there’s a lot of working together on that moment,” Culpepper said.