Paradise on Disney+ review: could this be the most bonkers show of 2025?
Paradise on Disney+ review: could this be the most bonkers show of 2025?
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It’s only a few weeks into 2025, but Paradise is already a strong contender for the most bonkers show of the year. There’s a troubled protagonist. He’s trying to solve a brutal death. There are shady characters galore. A run of the mill murder mystery, perchance?.
Not so! We start peaceably enough, with Special Agent Xavier Collins (Sterling K Brown, our troubled protagonist in question) getting ready for his day at work. He’s head of the security detail for the President, you see – except he arrives in the morning to find that his boss has actually been brutally murdered.
As special forces descend on the President’s house, Xavier is suddenly plunged into a living hell of interrogations and suspicion: one that’s complicated by the fact he was the last person to see his former boss alive. Now for the twist, which comes fortunately early but does turn the entire premise of the show on its head. As it turns out, they’re not in America at all. Well, they are, but the ‘Paradise’ of the show’s title is actually a bunker far below the ground that’s been designed to look like a city (bear with me).
The remainders of humanity have been camped out there ever since an unspecified world-ending event… and now, there’s a killer in their midst. As far as shock reveals go, it’s a doozy, and pivots the whole show from a generic murder mystery into an enjoyable silly ‘what if’ that aims for the kind of apocalyptic gravitas that The Last of Us managed to summon, and nose-dives short of it.
