The following article contains spoilers For “Paradise” until and including episode 7 of season 1.

If you are not watching Dan Fogelman’s new program “Paradise” on Hulu (Disney + internationally), what do you do with your life? This is a spectacle that combines the type of Fogelman character drama has collided the whole country on the screen in “This is us”, as well as a premise that would delight Michael Crichton.

The intensive use of flashbacks and history at high concept and concept and the whole resembles something straight out of the mid -2000s, a time when Programs like “Lost” and “Prison Break” had the public to constantly debate what new intrigue and complication awaited the main characters And what a new mystery would begin to collapse. If you missed what was already The best twist of the plot of 2025 so farI am here to tell you that “Paradise” has not only a first episode of killer or a fantastic premise, but the whole season is worth watching.

The story takes place in an idyllic city in which the whole hell comes off when the secret service agent Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) discovers former American president Cal Bradford (James Marsden). From there, Fogelman uses a premise of cuckoo, cuckooo-bananas, bats *** to explore (both superficially and with real depth) the role that the technological billionaires have usurped for themselves at the American government and attack the fears of the current era of climate change, political upheavals, and much more.

It is the television equivalent of an airport pages turner, an exciting story that remains surprising every hour that passes. Even if the show has too many emo covers of songs from the 80s, it is a television program that you will want to catch up before its final of the season.

The real premise of “paradise” is that it is a post-apocalyptic thriller that was falling after a disaster that almost destroyed the surface and killed countless people. Only 25,000 people managed to escape Armageddon by taking refuge in an underground bunker in the depths of the Colorado mountains, ignoring the state of the outside world. If it looks a bit like The excellent “silo” recommended by Stephen King ,,,, “ It is not an error.

Like “Silo” (and also “Fallout”), “Paradise” not only concerns the fear of imminent natural disasterBut that the world After The end of the world will very much look like ours in a key way: technological billionaires ruining everything for everyone. In “Paradise”, we quickly learn that a group of rich people not only funded and took command of building the bunker doomsday (ironically in a plan called Versailles protocol), but even selected each of the people who would move to bunker.

The intrigue of the season treats so far with the mystery of who has exactly killed the president, the idea that there are threats inside but also outside the bunker, and the many, many secrets that those responsible have hidden from the people. If you like to have new shocking twists and turns that reveal an entirely new layer to a show with each episode, “Paradise” more than delivered. Episode 6 also makes a fantastic tribute to “die hard” while Xavier draws a coup to expose the truth of the bunker in a tense and exciting episode which shows Fogelman and the ability of his writing team to weave in Suspense and twists and turns with good character writing.

Then there is the last episode, which has just propelled the “paradise” of a great show to the one who should be discussed alongside “Secret” and “The White Lotus” as an appointment television.

In episode 7, after a lot of waving discussions, we can finally see the light of day that provoked the end of civilization as we know it. This is a great episode of television, a masterclass in making a film in the event of a disaster within the limits of a television episode. It turns out that the world ended with a blow, in particular the eruption of a super-volcano in Antarctica which launches a tsunami 300 feet high which floods the ribs of the whole world. Knowing that many territories will soon be underwater, several countries are starting to think of the next steps and to grasp and secure the necessary resources (nuclear weapons, it is always nuclear).

The most impressive is the little of the real disaster that we see. Just like The excellent thriller by Mr. Night Shyamalan “Knock at the Cabin”, “ The only small songs we see from Armageddon are via news emissions – in this case, a single flashing and yourself with a giant wave hitting a building in Indonesia at nightfall. And yet, the episode is more effective in building an emotionally devastating and breathtaking disaster than even the most An expensive CGI spectacle or practical Roland Emmerich spectacle effects can evoke.

What really sells the episode and its representation of the end of the world is that the emphasis is on people who react to the news. We do not need to see whole cities destroyed because we see how it has an impact on people who know that they are the next. In the middle of the moments of pure nightmare fuel are many slower and quieter moments which focus on people about to be lost against whoever the billionaires have chosen to survive the apocalypse. Moments like Cal stops before evacuating the White House to speak to a concierge who worked there for nine administrations and does not think that the situation is series enough his son is left to die … This is how We understand what is lost. These are the moments that sell horror, pain and loss at the center of the show, and those who make “paradise” not only a captivating and exciting science fiction drama, but one of the best shows of 2025, period.