‘Paradise’ Season 2 Teaser Confirms February Release

Hulu’s Paradise brought back the “water cooler” show everyone needed, with each week giving us new details about this sci-fi world to speculate about, and now the series is returning for a Season 2 and it looks like we’re going to have a lot more questions. An all-new teaser trailer for the upcoming season gives us glimpses of what happens as Xavier (Sterling K. Brown) leaves the safety of his cavernous community in search of his wife, while also giving us looks at new and returning characters. Season 2 of Paradise will debut on Hulu on Feb. 23 with three episodes.

Hulu released the all-new trailer this weekend, which you can watch below.

Season 2 of Paradise is described:

Xavier searches for Teri out in the world and learns how people survived the three years since The Day. Back in Paradise, the social fabric frays as the bunker deals with the aftermath of Season 1, and new secrets are uncovered about the city’s origins.

Season 2 will star Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Krys Marshall, Enuka Okuma, Aliyah Mastin, Percy Daggs IV, and Charlie Evans, with recurring guest stars James Marsden, Shailene Woodley, Thomas Doherty, and Jon Beavers.

The Surprise Success of ‘Paradise’

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Filmmaker Dan Fogelman’s breakout hit came with This Is Us, which won over critics and audiences alike, bringing in both awards nominations and major ratings for ABC. Even though the series was a relatively straightforward drama, Fogelman’s storytelling managed to build tension surrounding the death of Jack, with its episodic storytelling allowing him to plant the seeds of this tragic reveal. Fogelman is also a producer on Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, one of the streamer’s flagship mystery series, which similarly draws in major praise from critics and compels audiences.

At the start, fans unaware of the narrative of Paradise were drawn in to the pilot episode and its exploration of Xavier trying to figure out why the president (James Marsden) had been murdered. As if this wasn’t enough intrigue for one series, that pilot episode included the massive reveal that the entire story was unfolding within a cavernous community that was designed to look like a normal American town, as this was the refuge of the country in the wake of an apocalyptic event.

Much like This Is Us, Paradise unfolded in both linear storytelling and through flashbacks. The first season culminated in the reveal that it was a researcher who helped build the bunker who killed the president, due to the fact that he previously tried to warn authorities that those building the bunker were being poisoned, yet they continued building anyway. Those who took refuge in the bunker managed to avoid the destruction of a super volcano and its aftereffects, with those outside the bunker having been assumed to be dead, only for Xavier to learn his wife Teri somehow survived, as he ventures into the unknown to try to find her.

Fogelman previously teases he envisioned a three-season arc for the series, though it’s unknown if his plans have changed.