Paradise Renewed For Season 2 On Disney+

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains a spoiler for Paradise Season 1.

Sterling K. Brown's Secret Service Agent Xavier Collins isn't done with Paradise yet, folks. In news that will surprise approximately nobody, This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman's latest water cooler primed show, which starts out as a hooky if familiar feeling presidential murder-mystery before very quickly becoming something altogether different, has been picked up by 20th Television for Season 2 on Disney+ (or Hulu, if you happen to live in the States.)

A marked change of pace for showrunner-writer Fogelman, whose past credits include Tangled, Crazy, Stupid, Love, and Pixar's Cars, Paradise has rapidly proven itself to be appointment viewing, with the show kicking off to an audience of over 7 million viewers in its first week alone. And given the show's shock early doors reveal that *SPOILER ALERT* this isn't just a story about Brown's Agent Xavier Collins trying to work out who bumped off James Marsden's POTUS, but rather a Truman Show-esque sci-fi series set within an elaborate underground city built following an extinction-level event, it's not hard to see why viewership has rocketed — or why the show's been picked up for more episodes.

According to Fogelman himself, the grand plan for Paradise is a three-season run that will continue to shapeshift before our eyes. Speaking to THR ahead of the first season's premiere, the creator said, "“I have a plan for three seasons of the show. Without giving away too much, each season of the show is a slightly different show, within the same show with the same characters.” And given Fogelman's proclivity for playing the long game and lining up all of his narrative ducks way ahead of time (again, this is the man behind emotional hand grenade This Is Us), we'd be very surprised if he doesn't get to see this one through to the very end.

Will our return to Paradise offer up another genre-switching twist? Can we truly trust anyone — or anything — in this show? And will future season(s) see Fogelman reunite with any more of This Is Us' Big Three? Only time will tell. But until then, there's two episodes left of Paradise Season 1 still to come and we are seated. So, so very seated.