Wait, is ‘Paradise’ Season 2 doing time travel?

Something strange is happening Paradise Season 2.

Everyone has nosebleeds. Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) keeps seeing visions of a man he has never met. And Samantha “Sinatra” Redmond (Julianne Nicholson) is working on a project that is somehow more secret and more important than the apocalypse house. I don’t know about you, but I feel a twist coming, and it could be one of two things: time travel or various shenanigans. Maybe I mean some combination of both. After all, Paradise ended its very first episode with the earth-shattering reveal that it was taking place in an underground city. If you want to follow that, you have to go big or go home – and both time travel and multiverses can count as the best.

Here are all the clues that appear Paradise Season 2 begins with three episodes that point to the passage of time.

One thing Sinatra doesn’t have time for.

Suddenly in episode 3, Sinatra has a disappointing talk with Dr. Louge (Geoffrey Arend), who is convinced that a supervolcano-megatsunami combo will destroy the world. (And you wouldn’t know it, you conclude that you are right!)

Dr. Louge tells Sinatra that even if humans were somehow able to survive the initial catastrophe and the rapid cooling that would follow, the trapped greenhouse gases would quickly heat the Earth back to unrelievable temperatures. Anyone still there could die from the heat or pressure. Basically, Sinatra’s house was going to buy people for just a few years.

“There’s only one thing that can fix this, and it’s one thing you can’t even buy,” Dr. Louge tells Sinatra.

“And what is that?” he answered.

“Time.”

Dr. Louge may have intended that statement to be a strict truth, but Sinatra probably took it as a challenge. Have we known Sinatra to back down from a challenge? Not at all. This is the woman who built an underground city to face the apocalypse. If someone tells him that he doesn’t have time, he will find a way to make more time. And how do you make extra time? Maybe with the help of a time machine. We’re talking about…

Sinatra has a secret project.

Episode 3 shows that in addition to building the basement, Sinatra has been working on another project all this time, a very large one that requires drawing power from the basement to keep it running. Paradise he hasn’t revealed what the project is, but based on how concerned Sinatra is about it, it seems he’s banking on the project to solve his time-crunch problem. Are you actually building a time machine? It looks like it is, but I haven’t ruled out the various shenanigans yet.

Let’s talk about “Advanced Wave Functions, Superposition, and Quantum Encapsulation.”

To start his project, Sinatra needs to buy the company of a brilliant professor (Patrick Fischler). We don’t read his name or what his company does, but we do do read the name of a class he teaches grad students: Advanced Wave Functions, Superposition, and Quantum Entanglement.

Now, I’m not a quantum physicist. I’m not even a regular physicist. But I be I’ve seen a lot of Marvel movies, so even looking at those names makes me think of multiverses. That thought only persists when you dig into the actual meanings of the words.

In quantum mechanics, superposition means that systems can exist in multiple states at once – at least, until we see them. Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment is an example of this. Let’s say you put a cat in a box and a Geiger counter, a small amount of radioactive material, and a mechanism that will shatter a bottle of poison when the dangerously radioactive atoms decay. If you leave this box alone and have no idea whether the atoms have decayed or not, then the cat is alive and has deadly poison until you open the box.

Elsewhere, according to NASA, quantum entanglement is “the idea that particles of the same origin, once connected, remain connected to each other … If something happens to one particle, it affects all the others with which they are bound.”

That’s all there is to it, but in the world of Paradisemaybe it means that the professor was trying to find a solution to our dying planet using quantum physics. Is there a situation where the Earth is destroyed simultaneously and not, and if so, how do we make the “not” option a reality? Or are you trying to find another version of Earth that is stuck with ours?

These theories are more focused than focusing on time travel, but one aspect of the professor’s involvement takes me back to time travel. Just before Billy Pace (Jon Beavers) kills him, the professor says, “Today, I choose to believe that everything worked out. That you should be here.”

Sir, what is “it”? What are you working on that might have worked and led Billy to you on purpose? Is testing something that will only happen in the future and repeat in the past? My head hurts.

What’s going on Paradisenosebleeds?

Thomas Doherty in “Paradise.”
Credit: Disney / Ser Baffo

You know who else has headaches? Everyone with nosebleeds and a depressing headache, that’s him. Link (Thomas Doherty) gets two nosebleeds in the first episode: both times when he and Geiger (Michael McGrady) discuss heading to the Colorado bunker and killing Alex (perfect). yours object). We also learn that Link was a protégé of the professor, so if anyone can figure out any quantum shenanigans going on here, it would be him.

In episode 2, Xavier gets a nosebleed while flying his plane in a strange storm that causes him to crash. He gets one more when he sees a vision of himself and Link walking together in a white corridor. In episode 3, Billy also has a nosebleed after meeting Link and saving his life. Somehow, the professor saw this coming and gave Billy a tissue before he died. Did he know the meeting was coming because the meeting was prearranged and he had witnessed it later? Whatever the answer, something about Link and his relationship with the dungeon is causing nosebleeds left and right, and it will somehow affect the end of the world.

(Also, how do we really know this? Has anyone ever been to a devastating future and read all the events leading up to it?)

How did Xavier and Link meet?

Xavier’s strange visions of himself and Link may refer to the passage of time. At the moment, we don’t know if these two actors have met in the past, although it seems unlikely. That means they can meet in the future, if so, why and how does Xavier see this? It must be time travel, right? Or a dream about another universe where they are together? Please, ParadiseI am asking for answers. My wall of wires would be too big.

Paradise now streaming on Hulu, with new episodes every Monday.