It’s tough to trust anything that comes out of Samantha "Elvis" Redford’s (Julianne Nicholson) mouth at this point in the series, but episode 7 reveals a new sincerity to her actions. The Paradise founder doesn’t lie so much as she just sort of hides the truth.

The first season of Hulu’s ‘Paradise’ uses its penultimate episode to reveal the truth about what really happened to the world and how it was destroyed. The show held the mystery of the day of the apocalypse close to its chest so far,

This article contains spoilers for Paradise on Hulu.

The more is more approach is par for the course for Paradise, a series whose first episode opens with the murder of U.S. President Cal Bradford (James Marsden) and ends with the bonkers reveal that the show is set in an underground city built to withstand the apocalypse.

SIGN UP FOR DECIDER DIGEST FOR NEWS AND STREAMING RECOMMENDATIONS Using Agent Xavier Collins, President Cal Bradford, and the countless colleagues, friends, and family of theirs who either are or aren’t going to make it to the end of the day as focal points,

If there’s one thing to take from Paradise Season 1 Episode 6, “You Asked For Miracles” it is that you should not mess with Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown). But if you want to take more lessons from your weekly television series,