8 Shows Like Paradise To Watch if You Like Paradise

Everyone is crawling out of their underground holes to get a glimpse of Hulu's Paradise, a post-apocalyptic thriller from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman that became one of TV's biggest hits of 2025. The series stars Sterling K. Brown as Xavier Collins, a secret service agent on the U.S. president's detail following a cataclysmic event that has pushed select survivors into an underground bunker designed to keep the human race alive until the surface of the planet is habitable again. But when the president (James Marsden) is murdered, a vast conspiracy and cover-up led by a tech billionaire (Julianne Nicholson) comes to light, and Xavier learns a lot more about what's really happening below and above ground.

Thankfully, the twisty drama isn't following current TV trends and taking years between seasons. But a wait is still a wait, and if you're waiting between seasons or episodes of Paradise and need a fix, we've got some other shows featuring underground societies, survivors of the apocalypse, and murders in tight spaces. Here are shows that fans of Paradise should watch next.

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Silo

There are a handful of shows about people burrowing into the ground to avoid disastrous problems on the surface of the planet, but Silo stands above the rest (or, to be more metaphorically appropriate, digs deeper into the issues). Based on Hugh Howey's trilogy of Silo novels, the Apple TV series stars Dune's Rebecca Ferguson as an engineer inside a massive underground facility that houses thousands of survivors bound by draconian laws after their history was erased, not knowing what lies on the surface of the Earth after an alleged extinction-level event. Like many shows in the genre, including Paradise, the political conspiracy underground is just the beginning of a story that opens up new worlds. 

This Is Us

Fogelman's breakout series was NBC's 2016 drama This Is Us, which singlehandedly renewed our faith in broadcast TV because it was one of the biggest hits of the decade in a time when premium cable and streaming were exploding. The tearjerking family drama follows a trio of siblings and details their lives in multiple timelines, while also tracking their parents in an earlier timeline. This Is Us features all of Fogelman's hallmarks that can also be seen in Paradise — extensive character building, unexpected connections, flashback storytelling, and twists galore — but on a more intimate, domestic level than Paradise. Sterling K. Brown earned an Emmy for his role as Randall Pearson and became a household name, making his casting in Paradise an easy decision for all parties involved.        

Lost

Paradise's underground bunker and post-apocalyptic wasteland make for the easiest foundations when looking to recommend a comparable TV series, but ABC's hit series Lost — which has neither of those (at least not as a foundational part of its plot; a hatch is not a bunker) — is the most similar show to Paradise on this list. Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse's six-season series about plane crash survivors on a deserted island was built on character-driven drama and intricate world building, the likes we had never seen before on TV, and its influence is all over Paradise, including its flashback storytelling, morally grey characters being pushed to their limits, answers to questions begetting more questions, and earth-shattering twists. Not everyone was satisfied with the ending of Lost (raises hand), but the early seasons still hold up. 

Ascension 

Before Paradise Season 1 gets into the "end of the world" of it all, it's a drama about a confined (and inescapable) community rocked by a shocking murder. That's the setup of the 2014 Canadian miniseries Ascension, an under-the-radar show that aired over three consecutive December nights on Syfy. Ascension is an alternate history sci-fi drama that kicks off in 1963 during the height of the Space Race, when a skittish John F. Kennedy, fearing the destruction of the Earth in an escalating Cold War, sends a massive spacecraft to the stars to colonize another planet and preserve the human race. But when someone gets murdered halfway through their 100-year journey, everyone becomes suspicious of everyone else. It's the first season of Paradise, but instead of going underground, they go way above it. 

Fallout 

If it's Paradise's uneasy safety inside an underground bunker and perilous danger on the surface of the Earth that gets you going, then you might want to give Prime Video's Fallout a go. And even better if you like cannibalistic ghouls, sarcastic retrofuturistic robots, and bodies exploding into a gooey, crimson splatter. Ella Purnell stars in the video game adaptation as a woman who has lived her entire life inside an underground vault after a nuclear war obliterated society, until she's forced to the surface to search for her missing father. Under gobs of makeup, Walton Goggins plays a movie star who's been transformed into one of the aforementioned ghouls. The goofy and fun Fallout is tonally different from Paradise, but they share a lot of the same survival and conspiracy themes found in this hyperspecific genre. 

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Revolution 

After the Season 1 revelation that there are survivors topside, Paradise is moving a lot of the action to the surface in Season 2, following characters as they traverse a world without electricity, civility, and rules. That's essentially the premise of the 2012 TV series Revolution, which was produced by J.J. Abrams and created by The Boys' Eric Kripke. True to the mystery box dramas of the era (and a response to the real-world tech boom that made us dependent on our our pocket computers), Revolution's main question was "How would people survive a global blackout that destroyed all technology and sent society back to the Stone Age, and what crazy conspiracy was behind it?" Unfortunately, it was canceled after two seasons, so it never got a chance to wrap up its story properly.      

Wayward Pines

The 2015 Fox series Wayward Pines is for Paradise fans who like a little more sinister supernatural in their sauce. Based on Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines novels, the series stars Matt Dillon as a secret service agent investigating the disappearance of two agents near a small town. After a car accident, he wakes up in Wayward Pines, a town cut off from the outside world and ruled under the iron fist of the local sheriff (Terrence Howard), who uses violent tactics to keep the people in line. Like Paradise, it's got an isolated tight-knit community, a secret service agent trying to figure out what's really going on, and a tyrant in control of everything. But it also has a little something extra on the top that we won't spoil here.          

A Murder at the End of the World

Another murder mystery unfolding in a confined space, FX's A Murder at the End of the World may not have as much in common with Paradise as some of these other shows, but it's too good to leave off the list, and its link to Paradise Season 1's launching point is too strong. Emma Corrin stars as a hacker and amateur detective invited to a billionaire's compound in the Arctic where a group of powerful elites are gathered to change the world, but things change when one of the guests is murdered. If "Who killed President Cal Bradford?" was the most interesting part of Paradise to you, then drop everything and watch A Murder at the End of the World now.