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


Sterling K. Brown and "Paradise" creator Dan Fogelman explain the shocking twist at the end of the first episode of Hulu's "Paradise."

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. As the episode ends with Xavier running, the audience’s attention is taking away from the mystery at hand when we notice the ducks in the town’s pond are fake, the residents are paying for everything with the same exact wristbands, and the entire community is enclosed in a giant dome inside a cave. “In the original version of the script, there were these sprinklers, like you see Xavier running through this whole thing at the beginning,” Brown says, during an interview for a Variety cover story.

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