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    ‘Paradise’ Finale Unmasks the President’s Killer to Tee Up Season 2

    David GroveBy David GroveMarch 5, 20257 Mins Read
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    [Editor’s note: The follow article contains spoilers for “Paradise” Season 1, including the finale.]

    This is perhaps controversial: the very best mysteries can’t be solved.

    Possibly it’s the job — consuming and analyzing too many TV exhibits to depend and not likely having the time or vantage level to play detective — however I’ve realized that I don’t theorize and attempt to get forward of exhibits the way in which I used to. Even after I did (in the course of the heyday of “Misplaced”), I derived as a lot (if not extra) enjoyment from seeing how a present, ebook, or film would finally reply burning questions, as a substitute of putting an excessive amount of weight on whether or not it lined up with my guesswork.

    THE OFFICE, (from left): Angela Kinsey, Kate Flannery, Oscar Nunez, Jenna Fischer, Ellie Kemper, 'Sex Ed', (Season 7, 704, aired Oct. 7, 2010), 2005-. photo: Chris Haston / © NBC / Courtesy Everett Collection
    Sean Baker, winner of Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Screenplay for “Anora,” attends the 97th Annual Oscars Governors Ball at Ovation Hollywood on March 02, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

    Typically being shocked — whether or not that’s tinged with pleasure, anger, disappointment, or one other feeling — is extra emotionally satisfying than simply being proper.

    When Dan Fogelman instructed IndieWire in January that he didn’t suppose followers would actually be capable of predict the bigger arc of “Paradise,” he was largely proper. Season 1 had loads of satisfying, if predictable turns: the folks dwelling in a bubble, the double agent, the riot of Episodes 6 and seven, and the sinister nature of Sinatra/Samantha (Julianne Nicholson). By the season finale, it’s straightforward sufficient to grasp why somebody would kill Cal (James Marsden), particularly after the reveal that it’s somebody from the surface world.

    However to my level about unsolvable mysteries: nobody might have predicted this actual arc, as a result of a superb 85 % of it wasn’t revealed till the finale — and that’s why it really works. You may suspect Trent the librarian (Ian Merrigan), Maggie from the diner (Michelle Meredith), Cal’s unseen murderer from the previous, or the literal Dewey Decimal system, however finally it’s as much as the present to place these items collectively and current them.

    The episode opens with one other flashback — not Cal or Samantha or Xavier (Sterling Ok. Brown), however an unknown man (or is he?!) working as undertaking supervisor on the development web site that can finally turn into their haven from environmental disaster and nuclear battle. He’s vital to “Paradise” and to saving the 25,000 individuals who find yourself dwelling there — even when he and his crew have been by no means going to make it (a crew composed largely of Black and brown staff, which is simply one thing enjoyable so that you can unpack at residence). After he’s fired from the job for flagging a deadly security challenge, the person goes rogue and seems to be the one that shot at President Bradford in a earlier flashback.

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    That is such a “Paradise” chilly open, and units the tone for the remainder of the episode, which is ludicrous, tacky, heartfelt, shocking, and apparent — . Each adjective I take advantage of about “Paradise” is respectful, even when the broader connotation of the phrase isn’t.

    Trent the Librarian, which I assume is his full Christian identify, was by no means a suspect inside the present (credit score to the eagle-eyed viewers who noticed building hats within the library, although); he lurks in plain sight like all whodunnit wrongdoer, however “Paradise” doesn’t isn’t performative about his display time. Trent and Maggie are pillars of their neighborhood, given no particular therapy by the showrunner POV (not like Amy Pietz as Marsha, who was my dad and mom’ prime suspect).

    A man sitting at a desk and working on a large laptop, in front of a large bookshelf; still from 'Paradise'
    Ian Merrigan in ‘Paradise’Brian Roedel/Disney

    That stated, if a person who was engaged on the Colorado building then ended up attempting to assassinate the President whereas screaming “The world deserves to know!,” there’s merely no means that anybody within the loop on Versailles wouldn’t have flagged it as a significant risk from the leap. That man was believed lifeless by the point Cal was murdered, so it is smart that his identify didn’t come up then (his actual identify), and I’ll chalk it as much as negligence and the trauma and chaos of The Day that his identify or face wasn’t on some sort of watchlist (that additionally goes for the one that let him by way of safety; like, you had one job).

    How did Trent and Maggie go two years with out getting caught? Did nobody vet everybody the second they obtained inside? I’m not siding with Sinatra & co. right here, however possibly we should always have misplaced incompetence within the apocalypse.

    One factor the present does account for is why Trent didn’t do something for 2 years; he obtained comfy! That is arguably lazy and easy, however can any of us say we wouldn’t do the identical? A supervolcano precipitated a tsunami that flooded the world and led to nuclear battle. Let the person set up books and eat cheese fries! The world of “Paradise” would ideally encompass simply that, however capitalist billionaires needed to convey weapons with them so it is going to most likely by no means know peace. Do I sound like Trent proper now…?

    Xavier finds Cal’s CD, the place the message recorded for his son results in the library — and the conclusion that the numbers on Cal’s cigarette are a Dewey Decimal classification. The viewers was led to imagine it was the serial quantity for a aircraft within the hangar — once more, “Paradise” preserves the thriller by obscuring it nearly solely. Dewey Decimal numbers are six digits, however so are loads of different issues, and there was no purpose to suppose Cal was referencing that greater than anything. The library has been a constant piece of the “Paradise” setting from the beginning, together with Cal’s (and Trent’s) presence there.

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    He finds Cal’s notes, together with directions on go away the neighborhood. Trent plans to make use of them, although his plans past murdering the president are greater than slightly half-baked; he’s shortly caught by Xavier and Robinson and escapes them by leaping from the highest of the dome and plummeting to his loss of life.

    After the relentless motion of Episode 7, the “Paradise” finale is nearly stress-free — however fulfills Fogelman’s promise to reply all the present’s main Season 1 questions whereas setting Xavier on a aircraft to the surface world and Season 2. With Sinatra down, Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom) continues to be at giant and incognito, and Jeremy (Charlie Evans) is dipping his toes into main the folks.

    Is that this a future President Bradford? Provided that his society lasts lengthy sufficient.

    Additional Transmissions

    • Gabriela (Sarah Shahi) saying she’s getting “frat home drunk” with white wine in a glass, woman, what frats did you go to?
    • Her scene with Robinson (Krys Marshall) is nothing superb, however Shahi and Marshall have robust chemistry that I hope we discover in Season 2.
    • Sid Khosla might add music to most likely something and immediately I’ll be in tears. Good shit bhaiyya.
    • Significantly, unhappy piano cowl of “One other Day in Paradise” whereas we relive Cal’s final hours?? Objectively tacky, but in addition HURTING MY FEELINGS.
    • Jane wanting the Wii and capturing Samantha for it’s concurrently so dumb and wild. Actually? The Wii? But in addition that’s completely the sort of insane leap a psychopath would make! I’ve no selection however to respect it.
    • Brown praised costar Marsden in a dialog with IndieWire, saying, “If he wasn’t lifeless, God, I want we might do it once more.” Watching poor Cal bleed out in his bed room this episode, I actually felt that.
    • In the identical interview, Brown revealed that the writers room has already convened for Season 2, with no less than three episodes drafted. Take it from the chief producer himself: “The shit slaps.”

    “Paradise” Season 1 is now streaming on Hulu.



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