It Starts On The Page: Read ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Premiere Script “Graceland” With Foreword By Eric Wen

Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page (Drama) features standout drama series scripts in 2026 Emmy contention.

After scoring four Emmy nominations last year, including Outstanding Drama Series, Dan Fogelman‘s Paradise returned for Season 2 with new cast additions, greater mysteries and a finale cliffhanger to rival its first season. In its sophomore year, the popular post-apocalyptic thriller flipped audience expectations by picking up not with series lead Xavier’s (Sterling K. Brown) quest to find his wife outside the bunker, but rather newcomer Annie (Shailene Woodley), who has been waiting out the climate catastrophe in Graceland.

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