Pluribus: all the latest on Vince Gilligan’s Apple TV series – The Verge

The Pluribus finale showed there’s a lot more to the story

2025-12-24T11:09:51-05:00

It's a good thing that we already know a second season of Pluribus is on the way. Because the season finale for the show - a sci-fi drama on Apple TV, helmed by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan - made it clear that things are just getting started. The episode brought together a number of significant threads but, more importantly, opened up potentially explosive (literally) new lines of inquiry for what comes next.

Spoiler to follow for the first season of Pluribus.

First, a little reminder of how we got here. The inciting incident of Pluribus was the release of a virus of unknown, but extraterrestrial origins, that turned almost the ent …

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There’s finally a little bit of sunshine in Pluribus

2025-12-21T08:08:36-05:00

Things might finally be looking up. In the penultimate episode of Pluribus' first season, Carol (Rhea Seehorn) actually seems to be happy. That's a pretty big deal for someone the show describes as the "most miserable person on Earth," who also happens to be living through an odd sort of apocalyptic scenario that she is desperately fighting to stop. But what does her change in demeanor mean for the show as it moves toward the finale?

Welcome to our weekly Verge-subscriber discussion of Pluribus, the new sci-fi series on Apple TV from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. The show follows Carol as one of a handful of "survivors" on Earth afte …

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The Pluribus apocalypse gets a little quieter

2025-12-17T08:59:19-05:00

Carlos-Manuel Vesga as Manousos.

The theme of this week is isolation. That's always been a part of what makes Pluribus so unsettling, of course; in the show there are only a handful of human survivors left on Earth, while the rest of the population has turned into an interconnected hive mind, some 7 billion people strong. But watching Carol (Rhea Seehorn) and Manousos (Carlos-Manuel Vesga) struggle through that loneliness in episode 7 really drives that point home.

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Pluribus turns a ‘caloric deficit’ into a nightmare

2025-12-05T11:06:07-05:00

Every week since Pluribus' premiere, I've presented a handful of burning questions I have about what's coming next. And most of the time I really want to know the answer. This is a show where mysteries are baked into the premise, with a slow-burn structure that can make it very satisfying when the answers start rolling in. But I regret wanting to know what the hive mind are drinking in episode 5 - I now have the answer, and I really don't like it.

Welcome to our weekly Verge-subscriber discussion of Pluribus, the new sci-fi series on Apple TV from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. The show follows a woman named Carol (Rhea Seehorn), who …

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Pluribus gets even more lonely — and dangerous — in episode 5

2025-11-26T15:00:15-05:00

After the last two episodes of Pluribus - in which Carol (Rhea Seehorn) was involved with an exploding hand grenade and an ill-advised truth serum - I couldn't help but wonder just how long the hive mind would tolerate her destructive ways. Well, here we are in episode 5, and I have an answer. "We just need a little space," the hive tells her over a recorded message.

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Carol seeks the truth (serum) in Pluribus episode 4

2025-11-24T12:11:29-05:00

Last week, one of my big questions about Pluribus was whether our reluctant hero Carol (Rhea Seehorn) would find someone to help her save the world from the scourge of happiness. In episode 4, I got an answer - sort of. We're clearly introduced to a character who thinks much like her, but how they'll actually connect is still a big question mark.

Welcome to our weekly discussion about Apple TV's latest sci-fi series Pluribus, which comes via Breaking Bad creator (and former X-Files writer) Vince Gilligan. In the show, most of humanity has become part of a hive mind that seems only capable of positive emotions, while the perpetually miserabl …

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Pluribus’ third episode throws a bomb into things

2025-11-14T13:30:14-05:00

If you weren't clear on just what a miserable person Carol (Rhea Seehorn) is, episode 3 of Pluribus sure makes it obvious. It opens with a flashback, as Carol and her partner Helen (Miriam Shor) are on a dream vacation at an ice hotel in Norway, and all she can do is complain about how cold it is. When Carol sees a stunning aurora borealis, her only thought is "it looks like a screensaver." But that cynicism might also be her superpower as she prepares to solve the hive-mind apocalypse that has descended on Earth.

Welcome! The two-episode premiere of Pluribus, the new Apple TV show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, introduced a stra …

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Let’s talk about Pluribus

2025-12-04T15:15:04-05:00

The lead-up to Pluribus has been very secretive. The basic premise - miserable woman is stuck in a world where everyone is happy - was known early on, but that was followed by cryptic trailers that didn't really reveal much else. But now we have a much better idea of what Pluribus is after the first two episodes premiered on Apple TV.

That mysterious nature is the main reason why I avoided almost all spoilers in my initial review of the show. It's the kind of story where preserving that feeling of surprise is very important. But Pluribus is also a series that begs for a deeper discussion. In fact, that's one of the goals of creator Vince Gi …

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Apple’s latest sci-fi series Pluribus luxuriates in its mystery

2025-11-06T15:16:08-05:00

Toward the end of the first episode of Pluribus, Carol (Rhea Seehorn), a woman put in a bizarre and impossible scenario, asks a very straightforward question: "What the fuck is happening?" It's something you'll likely be asking yourself a lot while watching. I certainly did. But that ongoing sense of mystery, and the measured pace with which Pluribus reveals itself, is one of the best parts of the new series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. I can't tell you a lot about Pluribus just yet - but I can tell you that being bewildered is part of the appeal.

Okay, so what can I tell you? Carol is a successful writer of fantasy novels - ex …

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Pluribus’ Vince Gilligan on making shows that ‘attract really smart viewers’

2025-10-29T11:45:43-04:00

Rhea Seehorn in Pluribus.

Now he's best known for the crime-fueled duology of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but when Vince Gilligan was first starting out in television, it was in the realm of sci-fi. Over seven years he penned a number of classic episodes of The X-Files, ranging from a monster-themed spoof of Cops to a bizarre high-speed car chase that was his first collaboration with Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston. And now he's back in the genre with the upcoming Apple TV series Pluribus, which starts streaming in November.

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 m …

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