Dan Fogelman gave us one of the worst films of the last decade with “Life himself” of 2018. At the same time, he is also responsible for some of the best television programs to present since 2015, as The phenomenal fantastic musical “Galavant”, “ The rather underestimated “field” and, of course, “it’s us”.

These last two series are significant because they have made their debut in a few days of each other and share a very great thing in common: their pilot episodes end with a fairly great twist of the plot which radically changes what You think the show you watch concerns. This article will not reveal what these twists are, but it is enough to say that Fogelman has a particular style and continued this trend with his latest television program, the Hulu political thriller “Paradise”.

“Paradise” brings together Fogelman with his star of “This is us” Sterling K. Brown. The latter plays the secret service agent Xavier Collins, the man who discovers the corpse of former American president Cal Bradford (James Marsden, reaching a great balance between playing an inspiring and progressive leader straight out of “The West Win “And a George W George.

This is and in itself, it is already a mystery of convincing murder from the start. This is a story that you want to follow not only to get answers, but also to obtain the kind of drama of interpersonal and heavy character that Fogelman used so effectively for six seasons in “This is us”. Aside from Bradford and Collins, there is also the intriguing “Sinatra” (Julianne Nicholson), a billionaire with a tragic past whose influence affects all aspects of the show.

And then there is the compulsory torsion of Fogelman which comes at the end of the first episode (itself the first part of the first in the series on three episodes on Hulu and Disney + internationally). This is the kind of twist that I like to see – the one that radically goes up the kind of show you think you are watching.

Huge spoilers For the first “paradise” to follow.

It could be early, but the reader, the way I jumped in shock when I achieved what “paradise” is In fact Almost only occurred with two not “lost” shows in the last decade: the great anime “decade” and Each time “Attack on Titan” has delivered an incredible and changing touch.

At the very end of the first episode of “Paradise”, we learn that the decor of the show – which seemed to be an average (if idyllic) district – is in fact a massive underground shelter in the depths of a mountain. It is true, “paradise” is not only a mystery of murder, but also a post-apocalyptic The mystery of the murder took place after a disaster destroyed most of the American population. (It is also tragically funny how we have come to accept that this is what the future will inevitably look like, with programs like “Silo” and “Fallout” telling similar stories in underground bunkers after apocalypse ).

More than just A remarkable turn for a science fiction television programThis also gives rise to an intriguing theme once “Paradise” reveals more about the preparation work that entered the bunker before it was populated. Thanks to flashbacks that show the tangle of Bradford with Sinatra, “Paradise” acts as an act of accusation burning in the way in which oligarchs can immerse themselves and grasp power by a disaster. It is not a coincidence that Sinatra is the most powerful person in the bunker although he is not technically president; She even helped choose all the people who survive the Apocalypse.

This is the key to what makes Fogelman’s twists and turns; They not only create a mystery, they also tell viewers of what one of his shows really concern. In this case, “paradise” is an exploration of the disorderly relationship between political power and money, in addition to being a very luscious thriller. It remains to be seen if the answers to the way the world was destroyed and which killed the president is convincing, but one thing is certain: after watching the first three episodes of “paradise”, I can’t wait to Know more.

“Paradise” is streaming on Hulu.