‘Paradise’ Creator Dan Fogelman and Star Sterling K. Brown Unravel Premiere’s Big Twist: ‘There’s Two Mysteries in the Show’

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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from the series premiere of Hulu’s “Paradise,” which is now streaming on Hulu and Disney+.

Fool us once, shame on Dan Fogelman. Fool us twice, shame on us. Following the now-famous twist at the end of the 2016 pilot episode of NBC’s family drama “This Is Us,” it’s hard to remember a time when the world didn’t know the show was not about separate people in different circumstances all living in modern day, but a time-jumping show about one family over the span of decades.

Now the “This Is Us” creator has debuted his new series, Hulu’s “Paradise,” and caught everyone off guard once again with an even bigger surprise: a show that’s at first blush a political conspiracy drama is actually a thriller set inside a giant bunker in a seemingly post-apocalyptic world. “He gets you, because in a script that’s 52 pages, the first 49 pages, is like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m feeling the story.

This is really cool. I’m loving it,'” “Paradise” star Sterling K. Brown says about the start of Fogelman’s “This Is Us,” on which he starred for six seasons as Randall Pearson. “You’re loving it already.