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

Paradise is a science-fiction thriller that taps into contemporary fears from an indirect angle, and that shrewdness ultimately lends it much of its underlying power. Reuniting him with his This is Us star Sterling K.

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.