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Pluribus

★ 7.9 167K votes 2025–present 1 season · 9 episodes Returning Series Apple TV
Existential dreadMortality and meaninglessness confronted head-on.This show: 9/10PhilosophicalBig questions of meaning, ethics and existence.This show: 8/10Outsider leadA misfit or newcomer as our way into the world.This show: 8/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 8/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 8/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 8/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 8/10Mounting dreadThe pleasure is in the slowly mounting fear.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Rhea SeehornKarolina WydraCarlos-Manuel VesgaMiriam ShorSoledad CamposSamba Schutte
Written by
Vince Gilligan
Starring
Rhea SeehornKarolina WydraCarlos-Manuel VesgaMiriam ShorSoledad CamposSamba Schutte
Written by
Vince Gilligan
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About

"Being the last unhappy person alive"

A novelist wakes up to find nearly everyone on Earth transformed overnight into a serene, contented hive-mind after some kind of global event, leaving her among a tiny handful of people still capable of anger, doubt, and grief. What starts as an eerie mystery becomes a slow character study of isolation and control, carried almost entirely by a magnetic lead performance. The pace is deliberate and talky rather than action-driven, favoring unease and philosophical unease over spectacle. It's a strange, patient show that trusts you to sit with discomfort instead of resolving it quickly.

Watch it for

the lead performance turning quiet dread into something genuinely mesmerizing to watch.

Maybe skip if

you need fast plotting rather than slow, dialogue-heavy unease.

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All Seasons

Season 12025
8.1169K97h 30m
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.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1We Is Us8.9
30K56 min
2Pirate Lady8.3
23K63 min
3Grenade7.8
20K43 min
4Please, Carol8.1
18K46 min
5Got Milk7.8
16K46 min
6HDP7.8
15K50 min
7The Gap7.5
18K46 min
8Charm Offensive7.7
14K43 min
9La Chica o El Mundo8.2
14K57 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Rhea Seehorn Carol Sturka
Karolina Wydra Zosia
Carlos-Manuel Vesga Manousos, Manousos Oviedo
Miriam Shor Helen
Soledad Campos Maternal Other, Manousos Mom
Samba Schutte Mr. Diabaté
Menik Gooneratne Laxmi
Darinka Arones Kusimayu
Anna Mhairi Vesper
Max Reeves Margaux

Crew

Vince Gilligan

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