'Paradise' Season 3 gets exciting filming update a week after intense Season 2 finale
Hulu's hit post-apocalyptic drama 'Paradise' ended its sophomore season on March 30 in an explosive fashion and also set the stage for Season 3. Now, a week later, the show's creator and showrunner, Dan Fogelman, has announced that production has already begun for Season 3. On April 7, he took to Instagram to share a picture of lead actor Sterling K. Brown filming on the sets of the show with the caption, "S3. Let’s go." The still shows his character, Xavier Collins, dressed in a white T-shirt, staring intently at a piece of paper, while his wife, Teri Rogers-Collins (Enuka Okuma), stands in the background carrying two plates of food. Written across the image is the phrase, "Another day in Paradise."
The series was renewed for a third and final season on March 17, two weeks before the Season 2 finale. A few days later, on March 21, Fogelman announced on Instagram that the writers' room had already completed the scripts for the show's third chapter. "We finished writing S3 of Paradise. This very fun, very talented room has completed the assignment. Vegas here we come," he wrote as he shared an airplane selfie with the writers. Moreover, he told The Los Angeles Times after the Season 2 finale that filming for 'Paradise' Season 3 would begin in mid-April and added that he plans to drop the next season "even quicker" than Season 2. "My instinct with this show, and all these types of shows, is the sooner you can get them back on air in a regular rhythm, the better it is for the show and for the viewer," he told the outlet.
The production schedule for the next installment of the sci-fi thriller follows the last two seasons, which began filming a year before they were released on Hulu. Season 1 dropped in January 2025, while the second season aired in February this year. Hence, it's safe to say that Season 3 will likely arrive in early 2027. 'Paradise' began as a political murder-mystery with the death of President Cal Bradford (James Marsden) in the premiere episode. It evolved into a dystopian thriller in the second season as the focus shifted to the survivors living inside an underground bunker in Colorado. Season 2 also introduced new survivors living outside the bunker through Xavier, who stepped outside in search of his wife, who was presumed dead.
It also incorporated sci-fi elements like time travel and multiverses by teasing the presence of the ominous 'Alex,' a quantum AI supercomputer with the ability to manipulate time and events. At the end of Season 2, the Colorado bunker is destroyed, allowing the survivors to step outside for the first time in years. Furthermore, Xavier learns of a second bunker in Denver, which houses Alex, and is instructed to shut down the supercomputer by the project's leader, the billionaire Sinatra. Fans are now eager to see what Season 3 of 'Paradise' has in store for Xavier and the rest of the survivors.
