Paradise (2025 TV series)

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Paradise
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Genre
Created by Dan Fogelman
Starring
Music by Siddhartha Khosla
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers
ProducerChris Nguyen-Gia
Production companies
Original release
Network Hulu
ReleaseJanuary 26, 2025 (2025-01-26) 
present (present)

Paradise is an American drama television series created by Dan Fogelman and starring Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, and James Marsden. It was released on Hulu in the US on January 26, 2025. [1]

Contents

Premise

The series involves a Secret Service Agent assigned to the protection detail of the President. [2]

Cast

Main

Recurring

Episodes

No.Title [3] Directed byWritten by [4] Original release date [5] Prod.
code
1"Wildcat is Down" Glenn Ficarra & John Requa Dan Fogelman January 26, 2025 (2025-01-26)1PTV01
Agent Collins goes for a morning jog, then prepares for his duty as a Secret Service Agent. In the residence of President Bradford, Collins discovers the President dead and bleeding on the floor. Collins examines the premises and discovers that the President's safe has been raided. He also examines the security footage and discovers that the footage froze for a few hours after his last contact with the live President. Collins suspects foul play by Agent Robinson, who is also the mistress of the President. Collins asks Agent Billy to check the perimeter outside the President's house before asking Agent Jane to call in a Code Red. Flashbacks show that President Bradford personally recruited Agent Collins to be his lead Secret Service agent and that once Collins took a gunshot on behalf of the President, saving his life. When Collins returned to duty after surgery and rest, President Bradford revealed a top-secret project being built inside the mountains in Colorado in preparation for an extinction level event. A flashback of the night before the death shows that Collins was resentful towards the President for an unapparent reason and told the President that he'll forgive Bradford when he sleeps again, and he'll sleep again when Bradford is dead. The outro shows a digital signboard indicating that the dawn is delayed by two hours due to scheduled maintenance and a flyby reveals that they are living inside a domed construction inside a mountain with a large, powerful light source supplying artificial sunlight to the settlement.
2"Sinatra"Glenn Ficarra & John RequaDan Fogelman & Katie FrenchJanuary 28, 2025 (2025-01-28)1PTV02
In a flashback, Samantha Redmond brings a team of brilliant people to a secret excavation inside a mountain and asks them to build her a city. In the present day, Agent Collins dreams of a memory where he speaks to his wife over a satellite phone before the white flash of an explosion blinds him through the aircraft windows. Collins awakens and is taken for questioning by Agent Robinson. En route, Collins asks why the mistress of the President is heading the investigation, to which Robinson replies she has a strong alibi. In the questioning using a lie detector equipment, Collins openly shares that Robinson was sleeping with the President, and Robinson asks Collins if he murdered the President. After he replies that he didn't, Robinson asks Collins to walk through the event. Dr. Torabi interrupts them and asks Robinson to leave. She then asks Collins if a part of him is happy that the President is dead, and prompts him to answer yes with a note in her hand. Dr. Torabi tells Redmond that Collins is telling the truth as he wouldn't admit to hating the President if he had murdered him and is lying. The public is called to the town hall where the death of the President is announced and a new President is sworn in. A flashback shows then-Senator Bradford meeting with Redmond at a conference where a speaker tries to warn that the world will end due to natural causes, but is greeted with an almost empty auditorium. Bradford asks the speaker what they should do, to which he replies to dig a hole in a mountain and get inside. At the town hall, Collins tells Billy that he's suspicious of Redmond (nicknamed Sinatra), and he plans to bring her down.
3"The Architect of Social Well-Being"Gandja MonteiroJason WilbornJanuary 28, 2025 (2025-01-28)1PTV03
4"Agent Billy Page"TBA Scott Weinger February 4, 2025 (2025-02-04)TBA
5"In the Palaces of Crowned Kings"TBA Stephen Markley February 11, 2025 (2025-02-11)TBA
6TBATBAGina Lucita MonrealFebruary 18, 2025 (2025-02-18)TBA
7TBATBA John Hoberg February 25, 2025 (2025-02-25)TBA
8TBATBANadra WidatallaMarch 4, 2025 (2025-03-04)TBA

Production

In April 2023, it was reported that Hulu had commissioned the series by 20th Television written by Dan Fogelman who is also executive producer via Rhode Island Ave. Productions, along with Jess Rosenthal. Sterling K. Brown and John Hoberg are also executive producers. [6] Brown was also expected to star in the series. [7]

In February 2024, James Marsden was cast as the president, with Julianne Nicholson and Sarah Shahi also joining the cast. [8] In November 2024, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Aliyah Mastin and Percy Daggs IV joined the cast. [9]

Filming began under the title Paradise City in Los Angeles in February 2024. [10] [11] Filming locations include Los Angeles. [12] [ better source needed ]

Release

Hulu released the first episode of the series early on January 26, 2025. [1] It was originally set to premiere with the first three episodes on January 28, 2025. [9]

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 79% approval rating with an average rating of 6.8/10, based on 19 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Teeming with heady concepts and themes, Paradise is an overstuffed but addictively ambitious reunion of Sterling K. Brown and creator Dan Fogelman." [3]

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