[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Paradise Season 1 Episode 1, “Wildcat Is Down.”]
In a shock flip of occasions, Hulu launched its new drama Paradise a few days early, debuting the premiere episode on January 26 at 9/8c and providing followers a glimpse into Sterling Ok. Brown and Dan Fogelman‘s newest team-up since This Is Us.
If in case you have but to tune into the episode, we’re going to advise that you simply cease studying now as a result of in true Dan Fogelman vogue, Paradise delivered one of the jaw-dropping twists on TV in fairly a while. Suppose This Is Us premiere-level twist! For individuals who have tuned in, be happy to hold on studying as we delve into the premiere episode’s set-up.
As viewers will understand, Paradise isn’t precisely the homicide thriller thriller that was teased previous to launch; there’s a lot extra happening as is revealed within the premiere episode’s closing moments. Within the present, Sterling Ok. Brown performs Xavier Collins, an agent tasked with defending the president, Cal Bradford (James Marsden).
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The primary tip-off that issues aren’t normal is Cal’s housing as he’s not occupying the White Home when Xavier arrives to work and enters the residence. Realizing he hasn’t exited his bed room and it’s fairly late within the morning, Xavier steps into the president’s bed room to search out him useless on the bottom with wounds on his head, surrounded by a pool of blood.
However who might have probably killed Cal? It’s a query that may loom massive over this political thriller, however it seems that Xavier might very effectively be a first-rate suspect. As he takes within the scene and begins to arrange, he finds out as many particulars as he can earlier than the dying is formally known as in. It seems that Xavier was the final particular person to see Cal alive.
By a sequence of flashbacks, we be taught that Xavier had beforehand saved Cal from an assassination try, taking a bullet for the president and incomes a considerable amount of belief. In change for that gesture, Cal affords to let Xavier in on a significant nationwide safety secret, informing him {that a} undertaking was underway as they ready for a large disaster that might trigger an extinction-level menace to humanity within the close to future.
Plainly the disaster will need to have occurred as a result of that undertaking occurs to be the underground metropolis the place Xavier is at the moment residing together with his two kids, and the identical metropolis Cal has been killed in. In one other flashback scene, Cal will get candid as he asks Xavier if he’ll ever forgive him, the implication being that Xavier’s spouse was misplaced on account of this disaster.
Xavier tells Cal that he’ll forgive him when he can sleep once more and that gained’t be till he’s useless. When Xavier makes his manner house from the president’s house, additional implications of the underground metropolis are revealed as kids pay for ice cream with automated wristbands, a employee tends to the pretend geese on a pretend waterway, and a digital poster alerts residents that daybreak is being delayed by two hours for upkeep.
Whereas many questions swirl, notably about who killed Cal, we will’t assist however marvel what predicament led everybody to hunt solace underground and the way precisely that course of was discovered. Both manner, this underground post-apocalyptic twist is one we didn’t see coming, which leads us to marvel, what did you consider the twist?
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Paradise, Tuesdays Starting January 28, Hulu