{"id":395154,"date":"2026-04-12T19:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:23:14","slug":"paradise-hits-the-mark-again-in-season-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395154\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise hits the mark again in season two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paradise has matched and surpassed the brilliance of its first season with an action-packed follow-up.<\/p>\n

Before you read on, there are spoilers in this piece if you have not seen Paradise season two.<\/p>\n

The twist at the beginning of season one set it up as one of the best post-apocalyptic thrillers of recent years. What looked like a presidential assassination thriller, we soon learned that the death of Cal Bradford (James Marsden) was far from what it seemed.<\/p>\n

Paradise follows survivors in a high-tech bunker built deep underground in Colorado, after a seismic climate event ended the world as we know it.<\/p>\n

His Secret Service lead Xavier Collins (Sterling K Brown) was tortured by the assassination and soon became the standout character in Paradise.<\/p>\n

Season two is no different<\/a> as Brown’s character gets a glimpse of the outside world in the search for his long-lost wife Teri (Enuka Okuma).<\/p>\n

This is where we meet a new addition in season two, Annie (Shailene Woodley). A tour guide at Graceland, the former home of Elvis Presley, Annie has survived against all the odds.<\/p>\n

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Shailene Woodley in Paradise season two.<\/p>\n

This type of storytelling was part of season two’s brilliance as viewers were shown what had occurred outside the bunker, while flashbacks were also used expertly.<\/p>\n

This medium helped us learn more about the dark characters of agent Jane Driscoll, played by Nicole Brydon Bloom, and Samantha “Sinatra” Redmond (played by Julianne Nicholson).<\/p>\n

The eight episodes build suspsens for a confrontation that always seemed invetiable as a an eclectic but organised group of outsiders demand entrance to the bunker.<\/p>\n

A few show favourites meet their grisly ends, but Xavier emerges as the key to the survival of not just our heroes, but humanity itself.<\/p>\n

We are left with the revelation that he is the only one who can help a mysterious supercomputer called Alex in its quest to keep the survivors from total destruction.<\/p>\n

Paradise is a thrilling watch and the eight episodes, all available to watch on Disney+, will leave viewers wanting more.<\/p>\n

A third season has already been finished by writers with production set to begin soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paradise has matched and surpassed the brilliance of its first season with an action-packed follow-up. Before you read…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-395154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}