‘Paradise’ Is Already Raising Big Questions With Season 2 — and Will End With a Season 3

[This story contains spoilers from the three-episode premiere of Paradise season two.]

If the first season of Paradise was a post-apocalyptic survival drama — albeit, a twisty one — the second season of Dan Fogelman’s hit Hulu series starring Sterling K. Brown is about something even bigger — and less tangible.

“This season is about: Do you believe that things happen for a reason, or is it chance? It’s a big, emotional question. It’s almost a religious question; a philosophical question. What do you believe?” executive producer and writer John Hoberg tells The Hollywood Reporter about the newly released second season of Paradise.

Fogelman, who famously created This Is Us, set out to make Paradise with a clear three-season vision, one that had a beginning, middle and an end. Hoberg, who has previously detailed the end-of-the-world research that went into Paradise, says they stuck to that vision. Now that the second season has released its first three episodes, viewers…