Hulu’s Paradise has it all: a murder mystery involving a former president, a sci-fi premise that seems to be just scratching the surface of where the show is going, a political thriller full of deceit and strife, and, of course, some steamy shower scenes. But what Paradise has that Hulu is most excited about is plenty of buzz and fans. The series quickly became a social and ratings hit as we all opened up Dan Fogelman’s mystery box story about a special community rocked by murder, and Hulu renewed the show for a second season just six episodes into its first.

Paradise stars Sterling K. Brown as Xavier Collins, a secret service agent investigating the murder of a former president (James Marsden) in a tight-knit community that’s serving as a safe haven from the outside world. Believing his wife has died, Xavier fights to maintain a normal life for his kids, but that becomes harder and harder to do as he unpacks a conspiracy with world-shattering consequences and butts heads with the person in charge, a billionaire who goes by the codename Sinatra (Julianne Nicholson) and will do anything to keep order. Series creator Dan Fogelman also created the NBC series This Is Us.

With Season 2 officially in the works, we’re looking forward to when we can see Paradise again, what Season 2 will be about, and who is coming back.

Paradise Season 2 premiere date prediction

Hulu has not announced a premiere date, but production on Season 2 is already underway, indicating that Season 2 won’t take as long to arrive as some other recent shows, which have stretched out breaks to 18 to 24 months between seasons. In an interview with Deadline, Fogelman confirmed that a quick break is the plan.

“Scripts are written. We go into production in four weeks,” Fogelman said in early March. “I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with shows that are off the air for a very long time in which people get invested in and then it takes a long time to get it back on television. We’re ready to go right now and hoping to get this show back on TV in a normal span of time, hopefully the same time as it came out this past year as opposed to waiting multiple years. So if we came out in early 2025, hopefully the next season’s out by early 2026.” We like the sound of that!

Paradise Season 2 renewal

Hulu announced that Paradise was renewed for a second season on Feb. 20, which was six episodes into the first season.

How many seasons will Paradise go?

Though Paradise just got started, creator Fogelman already has an end in sight. “We have this very precise three-year plan, and this next season coming is kind of the middle episode of our trilogy with also its own beginning, middle, and end,” Fogelman told The Hollywood Reporter following the Season 1 finale. “We have a three-season story that’s bigger than what people think it is right now, and it’s going to span a couple of genres.”

What will happen in Paradise Season 2 and who is coming back?

Sarah Shahi and Julianne Nicholson, ParadiseDisney/Brian Roedel

[Spoilers for Season 1 of Paradise follow. Read at your own risk!] At the end of Season 1, Xavier was on his way out of the bunker city via airplane after learning that his wife was — and others were — still alive after the many disasters that blanketed the outside world. That’s going to put him on quite an adventure as he heads above ground. “We are going to pretty much be picking up in real time,” Fogelman told The Hollywood Reporter. “We’re going to live in both worlds. There is going to be a little bit of a start where we go on a journey with Xavier. A very exciting, emotional, big journey, and then we will also be living in our downstairs world of the bunker, and forces will eventually be colliding. That’s basically the plan.”

Expect new casting announcements to come as the world of Paradise expands into the outside world. And these characters won’t just be warm bodies whom Xavier runs into while looking for his wife. “Structurally, we’ll be introduced to people on the outside and then sort of flash back in their lives as well,” Brown told Variety. “If Lost and The Wire had a baby, it would be Paradise,” he said, referencing The Wire‘s knack for changing its focus each season.

Though Sinatra was shot by Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom) at the end of the season, she’s not dead and will survive to see Season 2. But she’ll be at a low point as she deals with her injury and the threat to her power. “You could imagine a version of her that is on a quest to regain her position amid who filled the power vacuum while she’s been out, and her being desperate to reclaim it,” Fogelman said. “But you also have to wonder if the psychological toll of the season’s events have changed her and what that’s going to do.”

As for Marsden, who played President Cal Bradford, his time on Paradise might be limited with his character killed off and his killer’s identity — the bunker’s librarian — revealed in the Season 1 finale. But Fogelman loves to use flashbacks, so he hopes to get Marsden in at some point. “The story will dictate where characters like Cal or like Billy Pace can come back and play in our world,” Fogelman told Variety. “But there is a big picture story we’re telling here that will allow more stuff to happen.”

Where to watch Paradise

Paradise is streaming on Hulu, but Hulu owner Disney loves the show so much, it’s airing Paradise on ABC beginning April 7.