Robinson’s Paradise Season 3 Story Will Be Her Trickiest Yet After Harrowing Season 2 Ending, Says Hulu Star

This article contains spoilers for the Paradise season 2 finale. Krys Marshall (Agent Nicole Robinson) explains that what’s next for her character will be even tougher than before.

Hulu’s post-apocalyptic political thriller series Paradise continues to leave viewers guessing, as stakes continue to rise. The Paradise season 1 finale revealed who killed President Cal Bradford (James Marsden), and the season 2 finale is filled with devastating updates to the story. Among those affected, Agent Robinson continues to grow and evolve.

In an interview with Deadline, Marshall discusses Robinson’s next steps, how she is changing, and how difficult the road ahead will be. She teases that her character is still committed to doing what is right, is willing to change the system if necessary, and will be “an ever bigger badass” in season 3. Check out her comments below:

“Her allegiance is still to doing the right thing; it’s to freeing the people of Paradise, it’s to giving them an option, it’s to telling them the truth. So she’s always having her compass pointed to north. Season 3, without giving away too much, she continues on that path and just expands it even further. So what does a person look like who doesn’t believe in the bureaucracy at all, who doesn’t believe in the higher powers at all, who believes that the system is corrupt and it has to be changed? What does that person do? How does that person operate in the outside world? So Agent Robinson is a badass, and she becomes an even bigger badass in season 3. She’s always scared me, but now she terrifies me.”

Season 2 ends by essentially exploding the show’s foundational setting: the underground city/bunker known as Paradise. It collapses, and an evacuation ensues, thereby pushing surviving characters into drastically altered spaces. Robinson continues to change as well, as she didn’t think she would make it out alive after sustaining a serious injury and insisting that Jeremy Bradford (Charlie Evans) go on without her.

Given how fast the show can move and how much Paradise’s characters are all at risk, Marshall’s comments reflect how characters in this world must adapt. Robinson, a Secret Service agent who had a romantic relationship with President Bradford, in the finale ends up getting help from Jeremy, even as Robinson pulled a gun on him, telling him to leave her behind.

The moment captures Robinson’s core conflict, but also suggests how season 3 will take shape. Whatever “bureaucracy” existed in Paradise is collapsing right before the characters’ eyes, and as Robinson puts it, the creator and showrunner, “[Dan Fogelman] has no problem whatsoever killing characters that he loves… I think every single one of us is on the bubble every single episode. So you always read a script and just think, I hope I don’t die. I hope I don’t die. I hope I don’t die.”

The show rests on this back and forth, which Robinson finds herself in the middle of. Since the show’s inception, Paradise remains a terrifying premise, one in which prominent people and high-ranking citizens are shielded from harm, but the general population struggles after a sudden apocalyptic disaster. Season 2 escalates these institutional critiques, and Robinson is one of the characters who attempts to see through the confusion.

Moving forward, with Paradise season 3 already renewed, and Fogelman repeatedly framing the series as designed around a three-season arc, the story will cover a newly revealed second bunker, focus on both ALEX and Xavier’s trajectories, and it will highlight characters like Robinson who adapt, especially now that thousands of evacuees have been forced outside, and the bunker is no longer contained.

All Paradise season 1 and 2 episodes are now streaming on Hulu.