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From ‘Paradise’ To ‘Zero Day,’ Conspiracy Thrillers Are Dominating TV Again As Government Distrust Swells In America — Is That A Good Thing?

Conspiracy thrillers have been dominating TV as of late, but is that a good thing as public distrust of government swells in the U.S.?

If you turned on the television earlier this year, you may have tuned in to watch Sterling K. Brown fighting to save what he thought was left of his country from the selfish interests of a power hungry billionaire in Hulu’s Paradise. In fact, Fogelman tells Deadline he remembers a sense of “strained credulity” while writing Julianne Nicholson’s Sinatra as a power broker in the private sector with such direct access not only to the President of the United States but to the actual machinations of the federal government. Cahn, who cut her teeth on shows like The West Wing and Homeland, also says she’s not all that interested in becoming too entangled in the current truths of U.S. politics and instead prefers to contend with what happens when “even if we’re all doing our best with good intentions, we still wind up in bloody quagmires.”

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