Paradise Season 2 ended with a bang (quite literally), and now we’re entering the offseason. Paradise lost, if you will. We’re looking at months before this show comes back—during which we’ll likely forget everything that happened this season—but the good news? Production is well underway. Here’s what we know about the upcoming third season of everyone’s favorite post-apocalyptic Hulu thriller.
Has Paradise Been Renewed?
Yep! It’s official as of a few weeks ago:
When Is Paradise Season 3 Coming Out?
We don’t have a premiere date just yet, but it’ll likely drop in 2027. More on the timeline below.
Has Production on Paradise Season 3 Started?
Almost! Variety reports that filming begins on April 7. Typically, it takes just under a year to go from production to screen, so expect the show to land in spring of next year.
Who’s in the Paradise Season 3 Cast?
You can expect all the main characters from Season 2, plus and minus a few. For example, it seems unlikely that Julianne Nicholson (who plays Sinatra) will rejoin the show since she died in the Season 2 finale, but hey—flashbacks are a thing (as is time travel, apparently!). On that note, James Marsden could show up again.
Is Paradise Season 3 the Final Season?
More than likely, yes. Executive producer and writer John Hoberg told Variety that the plan is a three-season arc, with the Season 3 finale serving as a “pretty definitive” ending for the story.
What Will Paradise Season 3 Be About?
It’ll likely focus on Alex, the newly introduced AI that has the ability to manipulate time and is lurking in a bunker underneath the Denver Airport at the moment. Before Sinatra’s death, she tells Xavier to use Alex and save the world, so…gonna assume that’ll be going down next season! However, Xavier isn’t necessarily game.
Dan Fogelman told the Los Angeles Times that “He just got his nuclear family back...and then a lunatic billionaire is telling you that 100 miles away under the Denver Airport there’s this thing that sounds crazy. It’s not necessarily a scenario where you run off and do it tomorrow. Part of the journey of the third season is: What is he doing with that information? And does he resist it?...If he does [accept the mission], how do they get there? What happens?"
He added that the Denver Airport is a “very prominent part of the third season,” and that Alex is “at the core of what we’re doing.”
Meanwhile, John Hoberg told Variety, “If you think about where all of our characters are and what we were left with at the end, which is Xavier has been given this task by Sinatra to go to this second bunker, the question for me is, is he going to? Does he believe in what Sinatra is up to? Is Sinatra actually up to good? Does this machine do what she thinks? Or is she actually just dealing with her own grief, like she said? And will Xavier answer the call to do what she wants? I don’t know if I can name a specific genre [to describe Season 3], but I do know we’re going with, Xavier has been given a task, and I’m asking myself, is he going to follow through on this? And what are the repercussions if he does and if he doesn’t?”
Will There Be a Paradise Spin-Off?
Maybe! The show is super popular, and John Hoberg told Parade, “I kind of think so,” when asked about the possibility, adding “I feel like whether it’s a prequel or something, I don’t know…I got really into the guys, we called them ‘Cancer Cowboys,’ and we had this huge backstory for them, and it’s Link’s crew, and it’s what they were doing, going around right after ‘The Day’ and trying to safely shut down nuclear reactors. Because if they can survive, which you realize Cal gave them that opportunity, if nuclear reactors are blowing up everywhere, it’s not going to be a survivable country.”
