Pluribus (TV series)
| Image |  |
| Image Class | skin-invert |
| Image Alt | The word "Pluribus" in a sans-serif font in capital letters, with the letter "i" stylized as the digit 1. |
| Creator | Vince Gilligan |
| Showrunner | Vince Gilligan |
| Composer | Dave Porter |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Num Seasons | 1 |
| Num Episodes | 9 |
| Location | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Camera | Single-camera |
| Runtime | 42–63 minutes |
| Network | Apple TV |
| First Aired | 2025-11-7 |
| Last Aired | present |
Pluribus is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series created by Vince Gilligan for Apple TV. Set and filmed primarily in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows novelist Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), who finds herself isolated after an alien virus transforms the rest of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind, which nevertheless seeks to assimilate her and other immune individuals.
Pluribus premiered on Apple TV on November 7, 2025. A second season has been ordered. The title of the series refers to «e pluribus unum», a Latin motto of the United States which means . Pluribus has received acclaim from critics, with praise for Gilligan's writing and direction and Seehorn's performance, as well as the show's originality, tone, and stylistic influences, though its pacing received some criticism. It has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and two Critics' Choice Awards, with Seehorn winning Best Actress in a Drama Series in both ceremonies.
Premise
Pluribus follows Albuquerque author Carol Sturka, who is one of only 13 people in the world immune to the effects of the "Joining", an event in which an extraterrestrial virus transformed the rest of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind known as the "Others". The hive mind happily accommodates the wishes of those who remain unaffected, but admits that it will ultimately seek to assimilate them when it learns how to do so. Carol is adamantly against their efforts as she searches for a way to reverse the Joining.
Cast and characters
Main
- Rhea Seehorn as Carol Sturka, an American romantasy author who survives the Joining and seeks to reverse it
- Karolina Wydra as Zosia, a Polish member of the Others who acts as Carol's chaperone
- Carlos-Manuel Vesga as Manousos Oviedo, a Colombian immune individual living in Paraguay who refuses all contact with the Others
Recurring
- Miriam Shor as Helen L. Umstead, Carol's manager and wife
- Samba Schutte as Koumba Diabaté, a Mauritanian immune individual who lives a hedonistic lifestyle in the aftermath of the outbreak
- Menik Gooneratne as Laxmi, an Indian immune individual who is hostile to Carol
- Darinka Arones as Kusimayu, a Peruvian villager amenable to joining the Others
Episodes
Production
Development
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Vince Gilligan conceived the premise of the series after becoming "weary of writing bad guys", following a decade of working on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. During production of Better Call Saul, he came up with the premise of a man who everyone in the world suddenly adored after some cataclysmic event. He expanded on the idea, turning the lead into a female character that was written with Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn in mind, and coming up with the idea of a hive mind. As he wanted the story as grounded as possible, he came up with the idea of the hive mind coming from a signal sent from space containing code for RNA that would transform humanity. Gilligan crafted Seehorn's character to be a "flawed good guy" who tries to save the world.
Gilligan told Seehorn that he was working on something he wrote for her, and she immediately agreed to be a part of it even before seeing the initial drafts. After Better Call Saul ended in August 2022, Gilligan pitched a new series that he would develop with Sony Pictures Television. His pitch triggered the first bidding war for one of his works, with Apple TV winning the rights to the show in September 2022 and giving it a two-season order. Gilligan was named as showrunner and executive producer. Seehorn was cast as Carol Sturka, a successful but discontented romance novel author. Gilligan said he felt that he had about four seasons' worth of ideas for Pluribus, and did not envision that there would be a demand for more beyond that, nor would he have the energy to pursue more, given how long each episode takes to produce.
In March 2024, Karolina Wydra was cast in the lead role of Zosia, one of the "Others" that serves as Carol's liaison. The series title was chosen from a list of over 100 names as "a tip of the hat to the unofficial motto of America", E pluribus unum, a Latin phrase meaning "out of many, one".
Writing and filming
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In October 2023, after writing for the first season was interrupted by the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, Gilligan and the writers' room regrouped to finish the last two episodes. The strike also pushed back the plans to begin shooting, possibly into the early part of 2024, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The strike also affected some cast and crew decisions that were made before the strike; Gordon Smith, an executive producer and screenwriter for Pluribus, had to step in to direct at least one episode due to scheduling conflicts with their original planned director. Filming ran from February to September 2024, taking place in Albuquerque under the working title of Wycaro339. Each episode had a reported $15 million budget.
In contrast to Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, the long-term story of Pluribus has been planned out farther in advance with more time to develop the show. This allowed them to avoid mistakes that had been made in the earlier shows, such as the inclusion of the machine gun in the first episode of the final season of Breaking Bad, "Live Free or Die", which Gilligan did not know how to resolve until a breakthrough was made at the writers' table. In the case of Pluribus, the final episode of the first season included the delivery of an atom bomb to Carol, which the writers know will come into the story over its planned four-season run. Season 1's original ending did not include the atom bomb but was changed based on notes from Apple and Sony executives, which Gilligan states created a "better ending". However, Gilligan said he would be willing to drop these plans should a better idea come along in the future.
The official series title of Pluribus, along with its planned release in November 2025, was announced in July 2025. Denise Pizzini serves as production designer. Once Gilligan had selected Seehorn for the starring role, he was reluctant to use Albuquerque again for filming, fearing that viewers would conflate Seehorn's role as Carol with her Kim Wexler role from Better Call Saul. However, it proved more effective to use Albuquerque as the setting, given Gilligan's previous work in the city for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul along with pre-existing soundstages that were used for those shows. He also cited the city's available production talent and the financial incentives offered by the state: "I love shooting in New Mexico...But also, frankly, as a business person, I love this rebate." To avoid confusion with his earlier shows, Gilligan avoided filming at locations that he had previously used.
For exterior shots, Carol's cul-de-sac was temporarily constructed in West Mesa outside of Albuquerque, including Carol's home exteriors and interiors, six surrounding homes, a park, and roadways. Gilligan and the crew constructed fake residences for Pluribus to avoid drawing tourists to a real Albuquerque residence, as had occurred with the home used as Walter White's residence in Breaking Bad. Smith said this was also to minimize the impact to the people of Albuquerque, as some of the shots they planned around Carol's home would normally require shutting down roads and businesses if they had used existing residences. Additional footage was filmed in Spain, featuring locations such as Oviedo, Bilbao, Gipuzkoa and several places in Gran Canaria and La Palma in the Canary Islands.
Music
Dave Porter, who composed music for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, serves as composer for the series. Volume 1 of the soundtrack was released digitally on November 21, 2025, while Volume 2 was released digitally on December 26, 2025 by Milan Records, and is available to stream on all major digital music services. The label had previously released the main title theme as a digital single on November 7, 2025.
Release
After Pluribus was announced, very few details of the show were released publicly, even with the series's full trailer released in late October 2025. It was known to be a science fiction series at the time it was pitched, and Gilligan distanced the show from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, in that "the world changes very abruptly in the first episode, and then it is quite different."
An advance invitation-only screening of the series's first two episodes was held in New York City on October 10, 2025. The series held its official premiere event at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles on November 4. Entertainment Weekly released an exclusive preview of the series's first four minutes one day before the Apple TV premiere.
Pluribus premiered its first two episodes on November 7, 2025, exclusively on Apple TV. Episodes were promoted as being released on Fridays globally from November 7, but were released in Eastern Time Zones on the preceding Thursday evenings. The fifth episode was released two days early due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States and the season finale was also released two days early, due to the Christmas holiday.
Marketing
Various teaser trailers for the series have included the phone number "(202) 808–3981", which when dialed plays the following message:
Subsequent text messages included alerts for teaser trailers and an invitation to the October 2025 advance screening event in New York City. The messages, which continued through the series premiere, referred to all recipients as "Carol."
On November 14, 2025, Apple Books released an 11-page "excerpt" from Bloodsong of Wycaro, the fourth book in Carol's Winds of Wycaro book series, which was featured in the series's first episode. The excerpt contained a "Letter from the Author", Chapter 16 of the fictional book, and an "About the Author" biography page.
Reception
Critical reception
The first season of Pluribus received widespread critical acclaim, with critics praising Seehorn's performance, Gilligan's writing and direction, and the series' originality, tone, and stylistic influences. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds a 98% approval rating based on 166 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Genuinely original science-fiction fare from television veteran Vince Gilligan, Pluribus leads Rhea Seehorn through a brave new world with plentiful returns." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave the series a score of 87 out of 100 based on 38 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
Nicholas Quah of Vulture called the series "an entrancing piece of television", praising Seehorn's "remarkable" performance, writing, "she makes it easy to comply with Pluribuss insistence on total presence as it meditates on something essential about humankind." He compared Gilligan's direction to his work on the Breaking Bad franchise for emphasizing sequences that "luxuriate in depicting process and atmosphere", describing the series' pace as "deliberate and meandering, both thrilling and confounding in its refusal to yield payoff, immediate or otherwise" and praising its "gorgeous" cinematography and production design. Kaiya Shunyata of RogerEbert.com called Pluribus "one of this year's most complicated and thrilling television series", describing the show as a "bewildering mix of science fiction and noir". She praised Seehorn's performance for "commanding" the screen, while describing the "push-and-pull" between her and co-star Wydra as "fascinating to watch".
Linda Holmes of NPR felt Gilligan's "genius" to be in "the deft way he marbles brutality, humanity and humor into a single creation in which each element retains its punch, but the whole still makes sense". She praised the collaboration between Gilligan and the "extraordinary" Seehorn for tapping into the actress's comedic sensibilities, while also praising the series's "crushingly sad" depiction of existential loneliness, as well as its "philosophical frankness", which she found "more refreshing than didactic". Ben Travers of IndieWire gave the show a B+, writing that the series "rewards acute attention and an engaged mind, which would be more than enough reason to recommend it even if it wasn't also a sharply observed celebration of the human condition". He praised the "steady and stunning" cinematography and the "colorful and clarifying" production design, but in contrast to Quah, felt that Gilligan's "devotion to process" as a director "throws off the pacing, which is already unsteady thanks to the general shapelessness of our protagonist's overall journey".
James Poniewozik of The New York Times likened the series to several others, while considering Pluribus to be "its own mystifying thing" and "a wildly fanciful series that feels unsettlingly real at its core". He praised Gilligan as "a master of disorientation" and called Seehorn's performance "enormous, in quality and quantity". Summarizing the first season's pacing, Variety critic Alison Herman stated, "Pluribus may be slow, but it was never boring."
In contrast, negative reviews focused on the show's slow pace and underdeveloped ideas. Erik Kain of Forbes expressed that his "frustration with Pluribus stems largely from two major problems. First, the pacing and repetitiveness. Second, the stretched-thin plot. This show’s story is like too little butter spread over too much bread." Nick Hilton of The Independent concluded that "Where Pluribus could be an authorial send-up of modern America – a compelling vision of trying to stay sane in destabilizing times – it ends up being a bit listless." James Delingpole of The Spectator found that "most of the time it’s too busy being ponderous, dry, uncertain of tone (the black comedy isn’t funny enough; the dark bits aren’t dark enough; the moral message is incomprehensible) and hinting at depths it resolutely fails to fathom." Hannah Brown of The Jerusalem Post found Pluribus "incredibly slow-paced, with awkward dialogue that makes its points over and over." Inkoo Kang of The New Yorker found that "the A.I. analogy gives way to something much less satisfying: a horror story about what their version of living in harmony would really entail."
Viewership
According to Apple TV, the first two episodes of Pluribus broke its viewership record for a drama series launch, surpassing the premiere of the second season of Severance. For the week ending on November 16, 2025, Pluribus was the most-streamed original series in the United States. Prior to the season finale, Apple TV announced that Pluribus had become its most watched series in platform history, surpassing both Severance and Ted Lasso.
Accolades
Themes and stylistic influences
While developing the series, Gilligan incorporated tropes from many works in the science fiction genre, taking inspiration from the anthology television series The Twilight Zone and the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers in depicting the assimilated humans.
Several critics noted the series' stylistic influences and philosophical commentary. Sean T. Collins of Decider noted influences from several science fiction and horror works in the series premiere, including Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night of the Living Dead, and 28 Days Later. He also described the series as "a big-budget reimagining" of The Prisoner. James Poniewozik compared the series to The Leftovers, The Twilight Zone, and The Last Man on Earth. He noted that Gilligan, who was a writer on The X-Files and one of the showrunners of its spin-off The Lone Gunmen, returned to many of the themes from that universe. Pluribus was also compared to another Apple TV show, Severance, as both are complex sci-fi mysteries that deal with "transforming human consciousness". Michael Ahr of Den of Geek proposed that Pluribus took the concept and consequences of a hive mind takeover farther than other science fiction media such as Star Trek and The Expanse.
Some critics found the story to be relevant to the topical subject of artificial intelligence. Poniewozik found parallels between the show's premise and "the modern lure of AI, which promises to deliver progress and plenty for the low, low price of smooshing all human intelligence into one obsequious collective mind". Josh Rosenberg of Esquire also interpreted Pluribus as an allegory for humanity's "bizarre acceptance" of artificial intelligence, writing that "for once, we're watching a meaningful story about our connection to AI that isn't solely about choosing whether to fall in love with it or kill it". Gilligan has noted his own disdain for AI, and an anti-AI disclaimer in the end credits of Pluribus states that "this show was made by humans", though he also pointed out that he was not thinking of AI while writing the show since the story was conceived more than eight years prior.
The show makes a direct comparison between the hive mind's attempts to assimilate the immune and conversion therapy. Parallels have also been drawn between the effects of the alien virus and the COVID-19 pandemic. Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya of Autostraddle noted that the show touched on settler colonialism, stating, "the hive can be seen as representing a very extreme form of assimilation, one in which all cultural differences are replaced with a homogenous monoculture".
Notes
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- Collins, Sean T., November 7, 2025, 'Pluribus' Episode 1 Recap: When All Are One and One Is All, live, December 13, 2025, December 9, 2025, Decider, en-US
- Kleinman, Jake, November 7, 2025, Pluribus isn't the next Severance, but it might be even better, December 2, 2025, Polygon, en
- Ahr, Michael, December 2, 2025, Pluribus Poses a Hive Mind Dilemma The Expanse Never Got to Explore, December 3, 2025, Den of Geek, en-US
- Rosenberg, Josh, November 7, 2025, The 'Pluribus' Premiere Absolutely Blew Me Away, live, December 13, 2025, December 9, 2025, Esquire, en-US
- Garner, Glenn, November 8, 2025, 'Pluribus' Includes "Made By Humans" Disclaimer In Credits Amid AI Discourse, November 22, 2025, December 9, 2025, Deadline, en-US
- Fellows, Billy, November 25, 2025, This Quietly Devastating 'Pluribus' Reveal Completely Changes How We See Its Main Character, December 5, 2025, Collider, en
- Surrey, Miles, November 7, 2025, 'Pluribus' Smiles Through the Pain of the COVID Era, December 5, 2025, The Ringer, en
- Kleinman, Jake, November 14, 2025, Is Pluribus actually about AI? We asked Vince Gilligan, December 5, 2025, Polygon, en
- Upadhyaya, Kayla Kumari, December 12, 2025, Pluribus Episode 7 Recap: Resistance Requires Risk, December 13, 2025, Autostraddle, en-US
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