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Breaking Bad, Pluribus creator on secrecy, hive minds and AI in art

Carol (Rhea Seehorn) is one of the only free-thinking people left on Earth in Pluribus. (Supplied: Apple TV+)

Right up until its series premiere in October, people didn't know what Apple TV's latest show Pluribus was about.

They knew it starred Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul); they knew it was the brainchild of television royalty Vince Gilligan; they knew it had something to do with cheery yet eerie smiling petri dishes.

But the narrative of the series, which was green-lit for two seasons before it even went to air, was a mystery. 

In a TV landscape where new original shows often have to scream to be acknowledged, Pluribus went quiet. 

The new series from the creator of Breaking Bad is already No. 1 on Apple TV+ and the reviews are unanimous

Vince Gilligan swaps meth labs for manufactured bliss in Pluribus, a sleek Apple TV+ original that has critics purring. Set in a world calmed by a virus that enforces happiness and non-violence, the series follows Carol, one of just twelve people who can still feel everything. The mix of high-concept satire and sly humor has propelled it to the top of the platform, with a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score to boot. This bright apocalypse is already hitting a nerve.

Vince Gilligan returns to series television with Pluribus, and the streaming landscape has taken notice. Debuting on Apple TV+ this November, the show rapidly climbed to the number one position on the service, rewarding longtime fans with the precise storytelling they expect.

In “Pluribus,” Groupthink Spells the End of Art

There are no working artists in Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus. Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), the show’s protagonist, used to be a successful romantasy novelist, but then a virus of unknown origin swept across the globe, killing millions and uniting its infected survivors into a kind of peaceful, planetary hive mind. Carol was inexplicably spared, along with 12 otherwise unrelated individuals, but she hasn’t really been in a writing mood since the end of the world/dawn of the utopia. The hive mind—which is what I’ll call the shared consciousness of most of the other people on Pluribus—is keen on advancing scientific research as well as pursuing innovations in logistics. But, at least in our limited view of them, it doesn’t seem that the hive mind has any interest in composing symphonies or painting landscapes or, say, writing prestige streaming series. Members of the hive mind methodically gobble up the nutrients they need to survive; the individuals order food and products and services from an essentially limitless menu that the hive mind is eager to fulfill for them. But no one is creating anything. Everyone on Earth is a pure consumer now.

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