After a thrilling debut season, Hulu's hit series Paradise dropped its season finale, and the episode provided so many anxiously awaited answers. For starters, we learned who killed President Bradford (James Marsden), which was the inciting incident that rather brutally displayed the foundational cracks in this show's titular underground society.

The last few episodes found Xavier (Sterling K. Brown) fighting back against the leadership regime that hasn't been honest with the residents of Paradise, and that has put him in a very dangerous battle of the wits with Sinatra (Julianne Nicholson). Their tense battle reaches its most shocking fever pitch in the finale, which leaves one life hanging in the balance.

Even though we did receive plenty of answers about our lingering questions, the Paradise season finale connecting all of the dots was a slight let down. Perhaps it's a matter of high expectations or looking for the answers in the most obvious of places, but the season finale's storytelling felt contrived and purposefully misleading to maximize a shock that just didn't payoff.

Sinatra didn't kill President Bradford. Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom) didn't even kill President Bradford. The person who assassinated Bradford wasn't a character we had spent a significant amount of time with. The reveal came out of left field and was not satisfying, if we're being completely honest. The killer? Paradise's librarian, "Trent" (Ian Merrigan).