The numbers are in for the second season finale of Paradise. The genre-bending drama wrapped its eight-episode installment on March 30, with global count of 4.3 million views on Disney+ and Hulu, according to Deadline. That’s a season-best audience for the show, and an increase of 35% compared to this season’s premiere.
With no direct comparison to the first season’s performance, Disney did share Thursday that the season one finale accumulated 6.3M views in its first week. Hulu added that 13B minutes of the show has been streamed to date.
Created by Dan Fogelman (Pitch, Las Vegas) and starring This Is Us‘s Sterling K. Brown (Army Wives), Paradise’s first season presented as a political thriller, with Brown’s Xavier Collins being framed for the murder of James Marsden’s (Jury Duty, X-Men: The Last Stand) President Cal Bradford. However, the pilot delivered a memorable plot twist, revealing life in an underground bunker, where 5,000 survivors dwell after the world suffered a catastrophic climate event. As the murder was solved, a new mystery was born as Xavier learned life existed on the surface. With this knowledge, he pursued to find the wife he left behind five years prior.
Season two sees Collins journeying to find his wife, Enuka Okuma’s (Rookie Blue, St. Denis Medical) Teri, in Atlanta. As the truth about the surface comes to light, life in the bunker becomes fractured. Dissenters are disappeared as chaos and tensions grow. The situation becomes more complicated when strangers arrive at the bunker’s door, demanding to see Alex. By season’s end, a new mystery has revealed itself, shifting the thriller into strong science fiction territory.
Joining Brown are Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown, The Outsiders) as the stern Samantha Redmond aka Sinatra, Sarah Shahi (Black Adam, City on a Hill) as Dr. Gabi Torabi, Nicole Brydon Bloom (The Gilded Age, The Affair) as Agent Jane Driscoll, Krys Marshall (Supergirl, For All Mankind) as Agent Robinson, Aliyah Mastin (And Just Like That…, Honey Girls) as Presley Collins, Percy Daggs IV (Never Let Go, The Last Days of Ptolmey Grey) as James Collins and Charlie Evans (Leave the World Behind, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay) as Jeremy Bradford. Marsden recurred with Jon Beavers (Animal Kingdom, Licorice Pizza) and season newcomers Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies, Divergent) and Thomas Doherty (The Invitation, The Lodge).
With season three already written, the final season begins production within the next weeks. Stream both seasons of Paradise on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.