Warning! There Are Spoilers Forward For Season 1 Of Paradise
Season 1 of Paradise, which you’ll be able to watch in full with a Hulu subscription, didn’t finish fairly how I assumed it could. The season’s penultimate episode appeared to arrange a showdown between our hero Xavier Collins (Sterling Okay. Brown), and the present’s ruthless villain, Samantha Redmond (Julianne Nicholson), recognized by her codename “Sinatra.” Because the finale performed out, that wasn’t the place the cliffhanger left us. Nonetheless, it left me scared for Season 2 and what’s in retailer for the residents of the Paradise bunker, and simply what our seeming new villain, Jane Driscoll (Nicole Brydon Bloom) is as much as.
The Twists In Paradise Maintain Coming Till The Very Finish
In a present that had twist after twist, true to showrunner Dan Fogelman’s model, it was the ultimate one which stunned me. Xavier, who we final noticed in Episode 7, which CinemaBlend’s Sean O’Connell referred to as “one of many biggest episodes of tv I’ve ever seen,” confronting Sinatra over the reality in regards to the destiny of his spouse after the worldwide disaster.
Sinatra exhibits her true colours and admits that she has kidnapped his daughter, and calls for Xavier and his cohorts stand down. Confronted with the potential for impeding doom for his daughter, and after studying that Sinatra just isn’t accountable for President Cal Bradford’s (James Marsden) demise, Xavier relents and will get his crew to again down.
That’s when issues go off the rails. After complying with all of Sinatra’s calls for, he returns to be taught that she has misplaced management of her murderer, Jane, who has, Sinatra believes, murdered Xavier’s daughter. Consumed with rage, Xavier holds a gun to Sinatra’s head, however earlier than he can actual his revenge, Sinatra is shot within the chest by an unseen Jane, who then tells Xavier that his daughter is alive and tells Sinatra that she wants her alive.
Okay, so this just isn’t how I anticipated issues to play out. I ought to have recognized to be on my toes with Fogelman’s model of twisting issues while you least count on it, however in my mind, I penciled in a Season 2 plotline making Sinatra one of many darkest villains in TV historical past, the place nobody on the present is secure. That may have scared me essentially the most for the heroes, however that’s not what scares me now.
The Actual Worry Right here
I’m not scared for Xavier as he’s on his means out of the bunker and presumably to Atlanta to seek out his spouse Teri (Enuka Okuma). We’ve solely had small glimpses into life outdoors the bunker, however we all know individuals are surviving and it doesn’t seem like a nuclear winter. I’m skeptical that Teri is definitely nonetheless alive, however that’s one other story, and Xavier shall be high quality, I hope. He is too succesful and pushed to not be.
What scares me essentially the most about what’s coming in Season 2 is what sort of chaos will come down on the unusual residents of the Paradise bunker. Sinatra dominated the “city” with an iron fist and confirmed again and again simply how brutal she might be to keep up a type of peace. Certain, it was roughly a jail, and Sinatra was mendacity about what was taking place outdoors of the bunker, together with the potential fates of 1000’s of bunker residents’ family members, but it surely was peaceable. She knew how one can hold it that means till the president was murdered.
Individuals Are Dealing With The World Ending Outdoors The Bunker
Outdoors the bunker has clearly been anarchy because the volcano erupted and the nukes began flying, however the folks that have lived are surviving. Within the years because the disaster, it appears (from what restricted info we’ve) that some are constructing communities and looking for misplaced family members. In the meantime, inside the whole lot has been, at the least on the floor, idyllic.
That phantasm was shattered by Bradford’s homicide and cascaded shortly from there, however now it’s on the market. Xavier has little doubt impressed a resistance motion along with his messaging and that would result in all out civil battle, with no escape for the harmless bystanders, and that may be a scarier prospect than something on the present.
The one particular person preserving it altogether as a considerably benevolent dictator (till these days) is in a hospital mattress. The 2 characters who we’d count on to take cost are sidelined for one purpose or one other: Sinatra is within the hospital and Xavier is off to rescue Teri.
We all know how incompetent the vice chairman is, and the billionaires are going to maintain arguing and by no means agree on a pacesetter. In actual phrases, the bunker is in a state of anarchy, and there are a lot of armed troopers. We will discover some hope within the skills of Xavier’s former boss, Agent Nicole Robinson (Krys Marshall) and Dr. Gabriela Torabi (Sarah Shahi). They’ve made some questionable decisions up to now, however they had been those who recognized Bradford’s killer and his confederate.
Amongst all of the chaos, there’s Jane. She was final seen having fun with a pleasant sport of tennis on her newly acquired Wii. That final shot is disturbing. She’s simply shot the chief of the bunker, and her boss, however she’s obtained time to sneak in a pleasant little bit of online game tennis? She’s both an entire agent of chaos or she has a plan she’s so assured in, she will be able to sneak in some relaxation and rest because the bunker teeters on the brink. It is onerous to imagine she has good intentions, both means.
We all know Jane wants Sinatra alive, however what are her plans for the founding father of Paradise and for the city itself? Nobody besides Sinatra is aware of simply how ruthless Jane might be. Is her plan to switch Sinatra? Does Jane simply need to see the world burn? Does she need to expose the key to the survivors on the skin?
All of it spells doom for the residents of Paradise. The bunker is on the verge of a dystopian hell, as an alternative of the utopian heaven that Sinatra first envisioned. No quantity of faux cheese fries goes to maintain the residents distracted in Season 2 of one in all Hulu’s finest exhibits. Let’s simply hope we do not have to attend too lengthy to see what occurs subsequent.