"As the mysteries of Pluribus get deeper, the show's focus on its lead character hasn't diminished. By the end of the seventh episode of the season, Carol ( Rhea Seehorn) finally hits her limit after 40 days of isolation from The Joined. In the lead-up to that, though, she does what so many of us do in times of hardship: She turns to music."
"Because creator Vince Gilligan and the writers of Pluribus aren't the sort to resort to cliched devices like characters talking to themselves, "The Gap" instead captures the character's isolation through song. Whether singing to herself, blasting a stereo, or even turning on a literal player piano, Carol does her best to fill the silence that surrounds her, and the songs she chooses to play are an eclectic mix. Here's the complete annotated playlist (not including the unidentifiable tune she's humming in the episode's opening minutes)."
Carol endures forty days of isolation from The Joined and copes by turning to music. The creators avoid soliloquy, instead using songs to convey her solitude. Carol sings to herself, blasts a stereo, and activates a player piano to fill silence. The song selections are eclectic and reveal mood shifts: 'Tarzan Boy' plays at a gas station, offering false cheer; R.E.M.'s 'It's the End of the World' gets a stuck-in-head chorus; John Philip Sousa's 'Stars and Stripes Forever' accompanies a firework, inviting boisterous 'buh-bahs'; and Kenny Loggins' 'I'm Alright' appears during a solitary golf scene.
Read at Consequence
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]