"Breaking Bad took place in the languor of suburbia and Better Call Saul in the corrupt organs of the legal system, but Vince Gilligan's latest show Pluribus makes a home out of the stranger substrate of speculative sci-fi. It's a setting that's uncannily familiar-the world has been struck by an alien pandemic that "joins" the seven billion-some afflicted into a hive mind dedicated to the sole purpose of integrating all intelligent life into its matrix."
"Reluctant romance novelist Carol Sturka finds herself as one of the rare immune. She's no Rick Steves, but with all the time in the world and virtually every other human being at her beck and call, she takes off from her native Albuquerque to Bilbao, Big Sky, and Las Vegas with cameos from a Norwegian ice hotel, Tangier in the midst of reconstruction, a dramatic interpretation of Air Force One, and the dangerously fertile Darién Gap."
"With major wins this awards season such as lead actor Rhea Seehorn's Golden Globe for best performance by a female actor in a dramatic series, Pluribus has sowed ripe ground for discourse and fan theories. Whether or not the show is about pandemics, AI, or some ungodly combination of the two, one thing's for certain-there's never a better time to travel than during the apocalypse."
Pluribus imagines an alien pandemic that 'joins' billions into a hive mind devoted to integrating all intelligent life. A rare immune, romance novelist Carol Sturka, travels from Albuquerque to Bilbao, Big Sky, Las Vegas, a Norwegian ice hotel, Tangier, a dramatic Air Force One interpretation, and the Darién Gap while virtually every other human obeys the hive. The series achieved awards recognition, including Rhea Seehorn's Golden Globe for lead dramatic actress. Production designer Denise Pizzini constructed an endlessly varied yet largely empty world that blends real locations and surreal set pieces to convey apocalyptic scale.
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