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Maggie Season 1 Review – Nostalgia Meets the Future in This Psychic Rom-Com
Hulu’s latest original series, Maggie, about a 30-something-year-old psychic is an unexpected treat.
The concept of seeing into the future isn’t entirely new to millennials, so it makes sense that the series is geared toward the demographic with nostalgic references and jokes that only people who lived through the ’90s and still think it’s the best decade would ever actually understand let alone appreciate.
The series taps into that millennial magic with its quirky blend of That’s So Raven, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch – with a sprinkle of Good Witch for good measure. Heck, even Sabrina Spellman’s former principal Willard Kraft (guest star Martin Mull) walks into Maggie’s storefront as Zach, a man looking for a reading to determine whether or not he should retire. It’s just one of many Easter eggs for millennials.
Why? Because Maggie is an adult Disney show is Disney made show for adults.
And that’s precisely why you need to watch it.
Admittedly, the first episode feels slightly disjointed and a little too fast-paced, but that’s to be expected when you’re jumping into the thick of things without really knowing what to expect. By episode 2, you’re fully hooked into Maggie’s drama and captivated by the eccentric supporting cast, which also includes Chris Elliot from Schitt’s Creek in the role of the titular character’s father, Jack. This is no Schitt’s Creek, don’t be mistaken, but it’s an enjoyable and breezy watch from beginning to end with a charming nature that kicks things into PG-13 territory at times.
Rebecca Rittenhouse ebbs and flows between an ethereal being and your normal girl next door. It’s never too much because — with visions or without them — she’s just a girl that can’t figure out her own life even when she has all the answers in the palm of her hands.
Despite the visions giving audiences a glimpse at what’s to come, the mystery never fades as we quickly learn that the visions are devious little things that don’t always show the full picture… likely on purpose.
And what we come to gather pretty quickly is that Maggie relies on them all too much. She’s so focused on the future, she forgets to live in the present or follow her heart since she always knows what’s going to happen next. And while that sounds great on the surface, there’s a reason us mere mortals don’t know what’s going to happen next — it’s the perfect breeding ground for self-sabotage.
Maggie does a lot of that throughout the 13-episode run.
Her first misstep is when she ends things with Ben (David Del Rio) — a once sidekick on Beauty and the Baker that has quickly (and deservedly) ventured into heartthrob territory. After their swoon-worthy meeting and one-night stand, their connection is undeniable and has the potential to become so much more. In fact, according to her vision, she could have gone all the way with Ben as he’s the one, the soulmate, and the man she actually sees herself having kids with.
Of course, that’s too easy, and Maggie’s picture-perfect life is destroyed within minutes when she gets a vision of him standing at the alter with another woman, which forces her to end things because “she knows how it will end anyway.” Except that she doesn’t.
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Much of Maggie’s visions do, in fact, come true. A few months later, Ben does move into the duplex her parents own, with his high school soulmate and on-and-off-again girlfriend, Jessie. But while Ben and Jessie are a cute couple — we even like Jessie! — it’s clear that things between them are still choppy, especially since Ben naturally gravitates toward Maggie at every opportunity. They never go there, but emotional cheating is emotional cheating. And those stolen glances between Ben and Maggie, I mean, there’s no denying it.
As nice as Jessie is, you can’t help but root for Ben and Maggie through all the ups and downs of the season, including when Maggie gives Daniel, a great guy on the surface, a shot. Even then, Ben seems to pick up on the fact that he’s just not right for her, and when it’s revealed that Daniel doesn’t believe in her superpowers, Ben is there to pick up the pieces with some cake. Why? Because he’s a man that knows the way to her heart. He knows her, sometimes better than she knows herself.
Also, let me segue really briefly into Daniel. He claims to love Maggie, but then tells her that their whole lives don’t have to revolve around her visions, which is fair, they don’t, but in that ask, he wants her to ignore and mute a core part of who she is instead of embracing it and finding a way to incorporate it into his life. It’s one thing to encourage her to live life without constantly seeking approval from the future and coming from a place of love like Angel, but it’s another thing entirely to attempt to mansplain it, which is what Daniel did. He was dismissive of Maggie and her feelings. She deserves better; and seeing Daniel’s hesitancy to accept Maggie, while Ben didn’t even question her abilities further propels Ben into “the one” territory.
There are a few moments where Maggie acknowledges the depths of her feelings for Ben, including when she finally opens up to her mom about their brief yet meaningful fling, but those are rare and far and few in between. Mostly, she’s just doing what’s “expected of her,” and what she thinks she “should do,” which again, is where most of the problems stem from.
In fact, it’s why she loses her powers in the first place. While trying to help people, Maggie gets too caught up in seeing her own future while simultaneously denying what she was seeing based solely on fear.
Her mind eventually blocks out the visions to protect her from something bad, which ends up being Jessie finding out about Maggie’s hookup with Ben.
The problem here isn’t that they had a thing since it happened while Ben and Jessie were broken up, but it’s more about betrayal by all of the people she loved and trusted, including Ben. In a refreshing moment, Jessie also doesn’t put the full blame on Maggie, who is all too eager to take it anyway, but she acknowledges that part of the fallout is that Ben doesn’t seem convinced that he wants to pursue a future with her. After 14 years, he still doesn’t know what he wants and won’t commit to her fully.
Maggie then figures that the only way to course-correct and possibly get her visions back is to help fix the problem she created. She pushes Ben towards Jessie by telling him that she’s his future. It seems logical since she saw them getting married in her vision, but she’s also ignoring all the other visions that very clearly allude to Ben and Maggie having a family together one day. She’s still sacrificing her happiness for others and meddling instead of just being honest and allowing her heart to dictate what happens next.
And that’s a steep price to pay.
It’s also clear that by not trusting her heart and using her visions to dictate her future, Maggie pushed Ben right back into Jessie’s arms creating this whole mess. When Ben finds himself at a crossroads, he has a heart-to-heart with Maggie where she suggests that maybe she’s his soulmate, but Maggie continues to push him toward Jessie thinking that she can just fix the problem by ignoring it. But the truth is, if you have to convince someone to be with their long-time girlfriend, it’s likely not the person they should be with.
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Nevertheless, the final episode finds Ben and Jessie engaged. And when Maggie’s visions finally return, she gets some conflicting information as she sees both herself and Jessie standing at the altar with Ben. Initially, I thought that maybe Maggie’s visions were testing her and that Jessie was actually getting married to someone else, but now I’m thinking this is proof that nothing is set in stone. Your actions — today, yesterday, and tomorrow — have the power to change the future.
What if upon meeting Ben, Maggie said “screw the visions” and kept a good thing going? Would that have changed the future and removed Jessie from the equation entirely? Or would they still end up in this situation only for Ben to realize that he’s been trying to make things work with the wrong woman?
Obviously, things are messy now considering the whole ring of it all, but if she truly loves Ben and can’t see her life without him, she owes it to herself, to him, and heck, even Jessie, to get in the middle and mess it all up. This unconventional triangle is simply setting them up for more heartache down the line by not actually being honest.
Plus, an engagement doesn’t just make all the problems disappear. Jessie and Ben simply glossed over their core issues because they wanted to make this work instead of getting down to the root of it all. What led to their previous breakups is bound to bubble up again, ring or not.
The supporting cast offers a bit of reprieve from the whole “will they or won’t they” trope.
Lou is a fun contrast to Maggie’s more methodical personality. She’s free-spirited and up for anything, but she also knows exactly how to ground Maggie when it’s needed. Her choice in men hasn’t always been the best (looking at you. John), but I’m hoping that Sam, a fellow pug owner that she meets at Dave and Amy’s wedding, might finally be the real deal. I felt for her when she talked about the degrading nature of online dating.
Everyone on the show is fantastic, and while they started off as exaggerated characters, mostly Dave and Amy, they’ve really brought a wealth of personality to the series. Angel, however, takes the cake as the best support system a girl could ever have. He’s punny, confident, and most of all, full of knowledge that helps move the narrative along.
Really clever shows tend to get the ax all too soon, but considering that cliffhanger demands answers, I hope we get a second season.
If only I had a crystal ball to make sure that Hulu lives in the moment and makes the right decision for Maggie’s future!
Did you watch the series?
We give it a B+! What grade would you give it? Let us know in the comments below!
Paradise
‘Paradise’ Creator Announces Bittersweet Update on the Third and Final Season — And Fans Are Disappointed
Paradise creator Dan Fogelman shared a major, heartbreaking and exciting update ahead of the third season of the hit Hulu drama.
Sharing a photo of the cast of the Sterling K. Brown series, Fogelman announced that they officially wrapped production of the series, which also marks the final season.
“That’s it for Paradise in Los Angeles. Three years w this crew (and almost a decade for most of us between Paradise and This Is Us). I’m very proud of this dedicated, talented group… and incredibly grateful,” he wrote.
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Of course, the announcement is bittersweet because while fans are excited for yet another thrilling season, it also confirms that this is the end. Fogelman had a very specific plan laid out for Paradise, and no amount of fan requests will change his mind to continue the storyline beyond what was intended.
However, he did keep fans on their toes with a little tease, writing, “Until the next one…”
Given that he’s now responsible for two of our favorite dramas—This Is Us and Paradise—it seems safe to say that he likely has another emotional series in the works.
Susan Kalachi Watson, who played Brown’s This Is Us wife Beth, wrote, “Be still my heart🔥🔥🔥.”
The announcement left fans reeling and melting down in disappointment and sadness, as one questioned, “NO SEASON FOUR?!?!” and others chimed in, “Noooooooo 😭 there are only gonna be three seasons?” and “Last season of the show???? I’m sad now 🥹.”
Filming on the final season began in April 2026, a week after the second season wrapped up its run on March 30, leaving fans searching for answers amid a cliffhanger that changed everything and killed off a main character.
There’s currently no release date for Paradise Season 3, though a wrap on production means that we may get a new season in 2027!
And Fogelman already confirmed that two fan-favorite characters will be back from the dead—at least in flashbacks (or an alternate timeline, I suppose)—with James Marsden and Jon Beavers reprising their roles as President Cal Bradford and Billy Pace, respectively.
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Season 3 of Paradise will take us to the Denver facility as Xavier Collins is tasked with activating Alex, the AI that is supposed to help reverse or survive the apocalyptic climate event.
We’re already seated.
Paradise gave an exciting update about its third season.
Paradise Season 3 is officially in production at Hulu. In fact, creator Dan Fogelman (who also gave us This Is Us) revealed that filming has already begun on the highly-anticipated final season.
“S3. Let’s go,” he captioned a still from the set—a tease that gives fans insight into what’s next for the post-apocalyptic thriller.
The photo, which shows Sterling K Brown’s Xavier, with longer hair and a mustache, sitting at a wooden table in the kitchen as his wife, Teri (played by Enuka Okuma), walks over carrying two plates.
Written over the photo is the show’s theme song and tagline, “Another day in Paradise.”
We actually don’t know where in the timeline of the show the setting of the photo is, considering it could be months after the bunker exploded and Terri and Xavier reunited with their children.
Xavier does look a bit more rugged (kind of the same look he had at the end of season 2, honestly) as he mulls over some paperwork, and we have never seen this particular kitchen, which could indicate that this is their new life as they’ve started over after the events of the second season.
“This house does not look familiar. Bout to take us on another ride 😩,” one fan pointed out.
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However, with parallel dimensions and timelines also in play, this could be a different version of Xavier entirely—from the past or the future.
Is this Xavier who has already stopped the events that led to the climate crisis using Alex? Is this Xavier who has visited the second bunker in Denver that houses Alex after Sinatra’s death?
There are so many possibilities. What is Xavier working on? Is he trying to figure out how to stop Alex? Is he deciphering some kind of secret code?
The comment section was thrilled with the Paradise Season 3 update, as the excitement from the thrilling season 2—including the explosive finale–remains at an all-time high.
“sat,” Hulu commented, as many fans were delighted that filming has officially begun, with one noting, “thank you for not taking a year to start filming 👏🏻.”
Others took Teri’s presence as a sign that the couple, who traveled to the ends of the earth to find each other, are doing alright after the awkward run-in with Dr. Torabi, writing, “Is this before or after he tells her about the therapist??? inquiring minds wanna know” and “I’m assuming Teri got over the therapist thing since she’s fixing Xavier’s plate 😂.”
“could be a flashback .. or alternate universe. You never know w Paradise,” someone else reminded.
Many were extremely hopeful, joking, “So next week we have a new episode? 😍”
When Will Paradise Season 3 Premiere?
Well, we know Paradise Season 3 is happening, and the renewal wasn’t a surprise to anyone, but the when is a bigger question.
Paradise Season 1 ran from January through March of 2025, with Season 2 running from February to March 2026, so it’s likely we’ll get it at the beginning of 2027, if we’re following the pattern.
Or maybe we can use Alex to get the episodes now?
Just kidding… sort of.
And we’re finally seeing the light!
What we’ve already come to understand is that Paradise is not afraid to blow it all up. Season 2, specifically, the Paradise Season 2 finale, was proof of that.
In addition to the bunker imploding after Exodus—the evacuation protocol enacted during meltdown mode—the season finale also saw several key deaths and answered many of our burning questions, specifically, who is Alex?
And that’s just another day in Paradise.
Sinatra’s experiment proved that humanity is its own worst enemy, but when faced with yet another life-threatening event, it can also come together and fight back, emerging stronger than ever, even after some losses.
They were given a second-chance, they ruined it, and now, as everything around them came crumbling down, they had to work together for the greater good.
Who Is Alex?
We also learned about Alex—an AI-controlled quantum computer, smarter than any computer ever built, capable of predicting events that haven’t even happened yet.
Link played a significant role in building it, and Sinatra went to great lengths to protect it. And now, Alex identified User X, Xavier Collins, as the next person who can save the world. Sinatra tasked him with getting to Alex at the second bunker located 100 miles away under the Denver airport. Xavier made it out alive (thanks to his running speed, which honestly reminds me that I should probably start working on my running condition, just in case, you know!) Also, I love Paradise for giving us that full-circle moment—the first ever episode showed us Xavier running through paradise for exercise, but this time, he was running for his life. There was even a shot of the ducks, though the fact that they weren’t swimming underscored how dire things have gotten in a place that was always far from paradise, despite being “safe” and functioning amidst catastrophic climate events.
And we don’t even have to question whether he’ll do it because, as Sinatra said in her final moments, she knows he already has—likely alluding to the whole nose-bleeding situation whenever X and Link come in contact. Those memories aren’t ones these versions of themselves possess, but they are glimpses into their future.
Alex wants to manipulate time, and Dylan’s existence is proof that it’s succeeded.
Now, Alex has the power to stop all of this and possibly reverse all the deaths, including her own, all while solving the climate crisis. Maybe in this timeline—or maybe in another one? Or multiverses crossing? We don’t exactly know the mechanics of how Alex works, but Sinatra was clear that she must be protected at all costs.
Who Died on ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale?
It wasn’t just one person who died on the Paradise Season 2 finale.
Sinatra (Samantha Redmond)
The biggest death was obviously Sinatra’s. While seen as the show’s “villain,” her sacrifice was noble, as she went down with the ship. In order to prevent radiation from spraying out from the bunker and into the real world, leading to mass deaths, Sinatra stayed behind and locked the doors from inside.
She was at peace, however, as she walked around the world she created and built, knowing that her son, Dylan, was alive and that Alex was in good hands.
Sinatra’s death, in contrast with all the other ones in this series, was incredibly beautiful, as she found peace in reuniting with her little boy, as a young Dylan walked up and grabbed her hand, walking her to the other side.
In fact, Alex predicted Sinatra’s death the day of, knowing that she would have to sacrifice herself for the greater good. It chose for her, delivering a message to User X.
Big Papi/Geiger
Geiger’s death was an unfortunate one, and honestly, unnecessary. I know the stakes are high, and it’s unlikely that everyone will survive in this situation, but he went through all of that just to die minutes after infiltrating the bunker!
The man survived an extinction-level event in the world, above the bunker, and then spent years with his people trying to get to the bunker and find Alex, only to die in an explosion while the whole place was melting down.
How frustrating.
Anders
The architect responsible for building paradise was killed in an explosion that injured Mrs. Robinson. As everything started melting down, Anders tried to cool down the reactors but failed, and when they exploded, he was right in the line of the blast, meaning he didn’t survive.
Anders may not have played a huge role in the series, but he was integral to the neighborhood’s function and construction, meaning rebuilding a bunker of this scale will never be possible again.
It just shows how quickly things can go south when control is lost—and how quickly that took decades to build can be destroyed.
Who Came Close to Dying on the Paradise Season 2 Finale?
Others came close to dying, including Mrs. Robinson, though James rose to the occasion and became the man his father always knew he could be, and helped get her to safety. She’s definitely injured, but hopefully, she’ll heal soon enough. They weren’t able to grab anything from the bunker before being evacuated, which could’ve been helpful for humanity’s survival moving forward.
Link, who risked it all to get to Alex, came to the aid of Presley and Hadley, who were stuck in the elevator when the power went on the fritz in the bunker and meltdown mode was initiated. He and his men lent Sinatra and Xavier a hand, as they tried to help their daughters, pulling them to safety mere moments before the elevator in which they were trapped fell to the ground and exploded. In retrospect, Link was helping the man who was in possession of his daughter and his sister without even knowing it, proving that he’s truly a good guy. It’s just a shame his reunion with his mother was so short-lived. Though maybe it wasn’t as much of a goodbye as a “see you later.”
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Is Jane Alive?
While Dr. Torabi told everyone that she took care of Jane, that one random scene about 40 minutes into the finale, right before the whole idyllic town that looks a lot like a WB backlot goes “boom,” says otherwise. The shot seems so strange, but it’s actually showing Dr. Torabi’s shower, where we know she left Jane after she stabbed her, but there’s no body in the shower. So, did she survive and escape?
Or did Alex successfully change Jane’s timeline/existence and stop her? After all, those messages were sent to stop the baby from becoming a killer. So is she not dead, no longer dead or never existed in this scenario in the first place because Alex succeeded and she had a totally different life?
What Happened to Annie’s Baby?
Xavier may have risked it all, but he also made sure Annie’s baby was safe, delivering on his promise to get the infant to her father.
When he crossed paths with Link, he informed him that he knew Annie and that she died giving birth to his daughter. It’s a good thing he had Link’s ID card that he gave Annie, as the physical proof was enough to convince Link that Xavier was telling the truth, stopped him from killing Sinatra (his mother), and got him to safety before the bunker imploded.
Link honored Annie by naming their daughter after her.
Maybe Alex will eventually give them all a redo and a happy ending? Only time will tell.
What did you think of Paradise Season 2? Was it better than season 1? Where do we go from here?
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