Paradise stands as the top sci-fi series you’ve yet to discover. This Hulu show, created by This is Us’s Dan Fogelman and starring that drama’s Sterling K. Brown, wasn’t marketed as a genre program. Even the first episode felt more like a typical political conspiracy thriller… until its closing moments, when Secret Service Agent Xavier Collins (Brown) is revealed to be living in a shelter protecting a fortunate few thousand people from the apocalyptic wasteland above ground.
Season 1 gradually transitioned from a murder mystery to a sci-fi adventure, bringing to mind other post-apocalyptic shows like , , and . The final episodes indicated the world-ending catastrophe might not have been as catastrophic as initially thought, so Season 2 will explore the surface. Watch the trailer below.
This trailer picks up right where Season 1 left off, with Xavier leaving the bunker to search for his wife in Atlanta. However, it seems he won’t reach his destination, as his plane crashes. He survives the fiery wreck and is rescued by a mysterious survivor played by Shailene Woodley, and the two set off on an adventure together.
Other survivors, such as Sinatra (Julianne Nicholson) and Dr. Torabi (Sarah Shahi), remain in the bunker, working to cope with the Season 1 events that threatened to expose the truth to the public. While this season won’t entirely leave the bunker behind, viewers should prepare for major changes and answers about what life is truly like on the surface.
In Season 1, we learned that President Cal Bradford (James Marsden) chose not to deploy America’s nuclear arsenal during a crisis, instead authorizing a global EMP network that fried nearly every electrical circuit in the world, pushing society back by centuries. Yet clearly, the world has found a way to survive, and we’re just weeks away from learning how.