James Marsden co-stars in this post-apocalyptic Hulu series that continues to raise more questions than it answers

Paradise is a science-fiction thriller that taps into contemporary fears from an indirect angle, and that shrewdness ultimately lends it much of its underlying power. Reuniting him with his This is Us star Sterling K.

The actor and creator tried something much less weepy this time: a sci-fi thriller. Still it was “a homecoming on so many levels,” Brown said.

Paradise stars Brown as Xavier Collins, the lead secret service agent assigned to the President of the United States, Cal Bradford ( James Marsden ). Xavier reports for work in the first episode to discover that the president is dead and an important tablet is missing from the commander-in-chief's personal safe.