Surprise! If you tuned into Hulu’s new thriller Paradise because you thought you were getting a straight political thriller about a secret service agent going rogue to investigate the suspicious murder of the President of the United States, well, you were ...
partially right? But also very wrong. Yeah, sure, Paradise is about secret service agent Xavier Collins investigating the suspicious murder of President Cal Bradford, but also, as we learn in a whopper of a reveal at the end of the pilot episode, that murder takes place in a bunker in a Colorado mountain after the world gets obliterated from a yet to be fully explained catastrophic event; For three years now, 25,000 selected Americans have been living in this mountain bunker designed to look like the most idyllic suburban town a production design team could ever dream up and the first murder to ever happen in this bunker is that of the President, found on his bedroom floor still in his bathrobe and slippers. So, you know, maybe not a straight political thriller.
Now, if you tuned into Paradise because you realized it was a reunion of sorts between This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman and the best onscreen weeper in the business and This Is Us star, Sterling K. Brown , maybe there was a moment, even just for a second, where you thought hmmm This Is Us liked to toss a twist or two at us every once and a while, is this series going to be twisty, too? Maybe you had a little padding going into the pilot so you weren’t absolute.