As Xavier—who was, rather conveniently, a licensed pilot—guided a plane out of the Colorado bunker in a quest to find her in Atlanta, viewers staggered off the Paradise ride, too confused to tell if that queasiness in the pit of our stomachs was excitement or just motion sickness. A year later, creator Dan Fogelman, who previously applied this whiplash approach to storytelling to family drama with NBC’s This Is Us, returns with a second season that tries even harder to keep us guessing. A show that already had too many characters and timelines now has more. But Fogelman’s feints are so dependent on worn tropes that, in the three-part Season 2 premiere that is now streaming on Hulu, Paradise becomes not just predictable, but also kind of dull.