"For a task this difficult, you need someone whose pleasant blandness can sell the fact that billions of mind-melded Others are going to be slurping down their liquified neighbors and there's nothing the dozen or so conscious and unchanged people can do about it. You need someone whose energy is that of an enthusiastic golden retriever, whose aura is a turquoise blend of compassion and comprehensibility, and whose dimples are as pleasantly textured as warm focaccia."
"Pluribus has done an exceptional job casting the Others' mouthpieces, the figures who so unnerve Carol as she struggles to understand the changing world around her. The key for all these people has been a great smile - broad, toothy, guileless - to emphasize the schism between the Others' experience of togetherness and Carol's deepening loneliness. With his perfectly knotted tie and tan glow, The Young and the Restless's Peter Bergman made a wonderful middle-management representative for the U.S. government."
John Cena's genial, bland persona is presented as the ideal conduit for delivering a horrific cannibalism revelation to a survivor. The Others' mouthpieces are cast to unsettle Carol through wide, guileless smiles that contrast their collective togetherness with her isolation. Peter Bergman appears as a polished middle-management U.S. representative. Jeff Hiller's bubbly delivery frames Carol's novels as equally revered by the Others. Karolina Wydra's robust appearance reassures that the Others would not harm hosts while alive. A cameo tactic linking fictional Others to real figures reinforces the show's world-building and the altered reality.
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