"Encouraged by the conspiracy theory of a YouTuber, two cousins kidnap a senior executive at a pharmaceutical company, believing she is an alien from Andromeda sent to destroy human life. Two scientists who have turned the encrypted message of an extraterrestrial signal into a virus will unleash an epidemic of kindness in which all minds connect in unison a harmony that a woman immune to this viral global happiness will fight against."
"The alien-kidnapping cousins belong to Bugonia, the latest film by Yorgos Lanthimos a satire about extraterrestrials that is actually about political alienation in a population lost between distrust of the system, conspiracy thinking, and fake news. And the woman immune to the Martian happiness virus that has transformed the global population isn't real, but rather a character played by Reha Seehorn in Pluribus, the new series from Breaking Bad creator and X-Files writer Vince Gilligan."
"Gilligan came up with the original idea years ago while filming Better Call Saul. He imagined what would happen if, suddenly, the rest of the world became incredibly kind to a single person. Gilligan's series says far more about us than about whatever might be happening out there. We have to forget I Want to Believe poster that Agent Mulder had hanging in his office in The X-Files."
Three recent alien-related narratives mixed hoax, fiction, and real astronomical detection. A pair of cousins, inspired by a YouTuber conspiracy, kidnapped a pharmaceutical executive believing she was an Andromedan agent. Two scientists converted an encrypted extraterrestrial signal into a viral program that spreads ubiquitous kindness, opposed by a woman immune to its effects. Chile's ATLAS observatory detected interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, prompting internet hysteria about an approaching alien spacecraft. The film Bugonia satirizes political alienation amid distrust, conspiracies, and fake news. The series Pluribus imagines global enforced kindness to one person, highlighting societal self-reflection over literal extraterrestrial threat.
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