When it comes to playing sad dads and husbands, Sterling K. Brown can't catch a break. After six seasons of playing Randall Pearson on NBC hit This Is Us, Brown has endured his fair share of tragedy — he met and lost his biological father,

The actor and creator tried something much less weepy this time: a sci-fi thriller. Still it was “a homecoming on so many levels,” Brown said.

The actors star in Hulu's "Paradise," which reunites Brown with "This Is Us" creator Dan Fogelman and meditates on climate change and technology.