Pluribus - The new show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan

[Something Awful]

2:03

Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows author Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), who seems to be the only person immune to an unexplained virus that transforms the world's population into content and optimistic citizens.



Pluribus premieres November 7 on Apple TV.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

So basically she is the only one noticing?

 

[Something Awful]

She's the reverse of @Dyn's avatar.

 

[Breadbassket]

I wonder how many dystopia/horror stories there have been where everyone is seemingly happy except the protagonist who sees the world as it really is?

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

So, it's They Live but with meth?

 

[Rapesputin]

Vrabo Cinve

 

[xXWild_DripXx]

I doubt it will be as memorable as breaking bad

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

for a moment I thought it was going to be about the old bullshit video game faux urban legend

 

[Inco G. Nito]

So when I first saw the word "Pluribus" I at first assumed it was some kind of a multiplayer implementation of Desert Bus, as in "Plural" and "Bus". Perhaps democratically controlled.

 

[frozen_runner]

I'm cautiously optimistic. Rhea Seehorn is a great actress who could play "grumpy cunt" well, and the premise is pretty funny.

 

[Walmart Wagie]

My stream crapped out right before it started to get really interesting. Apple TV+ got overwhelmed with people trying to watch according to Twitter.

 

[Water Store Remark]

I'm just glad it doesn't seem to be mystery-boxing. If Severance's writers were doing this, we'd find out in two months that "THERE ARE OTHERS UNAFFECTED!" in the last 30 seconds of the season.

 

[smee]

Love the premise, even though I can't yet see how gripping it can stay after the many 1 hour long episodes they have planned.
I'll be looking forward to it weekly.

 

[NSJAP]

>have the memory/experience of all the murder/mudering/raping/raped/burned/tortured/enslaved/etc
>a woman being upset makes you tilt

 

[#lurker]

The first two episodes were decent enough. I went in expecting dogshit and was surprised. However it has the potential to really shit the bed depending on where it goes.

 

[Flatline]

However it has the potential to really shit the bed depending on where it goes.

For what it's worth, some of the best shows had slow or shitty first seasons before hitting their stride in later seasons. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul had that issue.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

I doubt it will be as memorable as breaking bad

I remember everyone (including myself) being super pessimistic about BCS when it was announced, saying it was a dumb idea, a cash grab, couldn't live up to BB but it ended up having an argument that it's better. Gilligan has earned giving it a try. And Rhea Seahorn is so cute even in her 50s.

 

[Water Store Remark]

Spoiler: I'm a newfag so I still don't know if I can openly post spoilers in threads like this

So far I'm having a hard time internalizing that the hive mind is a single character, but I guess I don't feel bad since the other characters are obviously having the same problem, especially with the way they argued about Pirate Lady at the end of the second episode as if she was an individual despite both knowing better. Quintessentially French guy thinks he's made a genuine connection with "her" and Not-Kim seems to be getting protective of "her."

 

[Jex]

Using a childless lesbian white woman and chinky/pajeet extended families to express the conflict between hyper-individuality and collectivism was a bit on the nose.

The collective are going to be like fallout 1 super mutants, they think they are superior but will doom humanity due to a fatal flaw. In this case it's because they're emotional faggots that have seizures when their fee fees get hurt and wild animals just start eating them when they realise they don't fight back. They might not be able to reproduce hence the urgent incentive to assimilate people.

I like it, but I hope it doesn't go down the lost/severance never ending mystery route.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Does the show at least have the balls to argue we should kill the hivemind no matter who dies in the process (the based slav final solution), or is it a faggy moral that we should live with it (the faggy Japanese non-solution).