Hulu’s New Thriller Is Quickly Becoming The Frontrunner To Replace Silo While Waiting For Season 3

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Hulu’s new action thriller series Paradise looks to be a great replacement for Apple TV+’s acclaimed sci-fi drama Silo. While the two series are far from identical, both Paradise and Silo have similar dystopian themes and take place in an underground bunker where civilization survived after a cataclysmic, Earth-shattering event. Silo premiered on Apple TV+ in May 2023, helping solidify the streaming platform as a modern mecca for premium sci-fi titles along with Severance and For All Mankind.

Paradise is a relatively new series streaming exclusively on Hulu. Starring Sterling K. Brown as a Secret Service agent named Xavier Collins, Paradise blends political and post-apocalyptic story elements to create a truly original and highly engaging series. Like Silo, Paradise has a strong ensemble cast led by James Marsden, Sarah Shahi, and Julianne Nicholson. While Apple has already confirmed two more seasons of Silo, season 3 isn’t expected until late 2025, leaving Paradise to fill in the gap.

Fans Waiting For Silo Season 3 Should Check Out Hulu’s Paradise

Paradise Takes Place In An Underground Civilization Following Apocalyptic Events

The first episode of Paradise makes it seem like a relatively straightforward political conspiracy thriller, which is tonally off from Silo’s heavy sci-fi themes and elements. However, the further viewers dive into Paradise, which currently has four of its eight season 1 episodes available to stream on Hulu, the more similarities to Silo start to emerge. A mysterious death, tension within the underground civilization, and an unsettling sense of mistrust in those who operate at the very top.

Like Silo, Paradise is full of suspense, mystery, and intrigue in the system of law, order, and control in the underground civilizations. Also present is the major question of what happened on Earth to cause civilization to start living underground, as well as how humankind pulled off such an ambitious feat. Paradise continues a theme started by Silo and continued by Prime Video’s celebrated video game adaptation Fallout, painting a fictional yet cautionary picture of subterranean communities and environmental factors that brought humanity there.

Paradise Has One Advantage Over Silo’s Story (For Now)

Paradise Begins In The Early Days Of The Underground Civilization

Paradise offers more of a cutting-edge look into the origins of its underground bunker community, aptly named Paradise, than Silo offers. The origin of the silo in Apple’s acclaimed series is a major point of mystery throughout most of the first season.

Paradise digs into the early days of this community as early as the premiere episode.

Paradise digs into the early days of this community as early as the premiere episode, allowing viewers to understand the circumstances of the underground civilization from the get-go. It’s eventually revealed that the silo is centuries old by the time Silo begins. Paradise, however, marks the relative beginning, which sets it up for a multiple-season run and offers an early narrative advantage over Silo.