"Pluribus follows a woman named Carol (Rhea Seehorn, who previously worked with Gilligan on Better Call Saul) who finds herself thrust into a very strange world. It seems that everyone on the planet, save for Carol and a few other individuals, is infected with a never-ending form of happiness. Not only are they perpetually smiling, but it seems like they'll do whatever it takes to both make Carol happy and eventually subsume her into their cheerful mania."
"But Gilligan tells me that, while he had been itching to return to sci-fi, actually getting there was a bit of an accident. "I didn't make a conscious decision to make another sci-fi show," he tells The Verge. Instead, he came up with a specific idea and discovered no other genre would do. "I realized there was no other way to explain the happenings other than science fiction.""
Vince Gilligan, known for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, previously wrote episodes of The X-Files and returns to sci-fi with Pluribus. The series centers on Carol (Rhea Seehorn), who confronts a world where nearly everyone is infected with a never-ending happiness that compels them to please her and absorb her into their mania. Gilligan conceived the concept over nearly a decade and developed it while working on Better Call Saul, where long lunchtime walks helped the idea germinate. Gilligan did not set out to make another sci-fi show; the premise itself required a science-fiction explanation.
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