"Both Gilligan and Apple TV have been cagey about revealing what Pluribus is actually about, although if you stare at that title for long enough (and if you look at how it's sometimes styled as Plur1bus), you'll get clues. What feels fair to reveal is that Rhea Seehorn, so brilliant as Kim in Gilligan's Better Call Saul, stars as Carol Sturka, a defiant misanthrope plagued by bristly self-loathing who suddenly finds herself feeling very much alone in the world."
"Like Burgess Meredith in The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough At Last," Carol gets a brutal glimpse at a world without annoyances, and she is immediately desperate to get back what she's lost. How this happens: remember that long before Vince Gilligan created Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, he wrote for The X-Files, where he was responsible for some of the show's weirdest and funniest episodes, as well as some of its most moving and sad."
Nikki Giovanni's 1978 poem frames loneliness as a defining feature of a decade. Contemporary loneliness is attributed to social media, political disempowerment, collapsing public health, prejudice, poverty, land use, media consolidation and the willful undermining of community ties. Vince Gilligan's Pluribus is presented as a resonant work for this moment. Gilligan and Apple TV have kept plot details secret, while the title's stylization Plur1bus offers hints. Rhea Seehorn stars as Carol Sturka, a misanthrope beset by self-loathing who suddenly faces acute solitude. Gilligan's X-Files background contributes science-fiction tones alongside humor, melancholy and moral unease.
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