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Pluribus

Invasion of the people pleasers.

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Pluribus is all percolator, less interested in moving through story than in reacquainting us with the thrill of watching something unfold, the disquiet that comes from sitting too long with a feeling, and the strange clarity that emerges when your brain syncs to its rhythm. It’s slow television in the truest sense: deliberate and meandering, both thrilling and confounding in its refusal to yield payoff, immediate or otherwise. There’s so much pleasure to be found in letting its slowness wash over you, and a big reason all of it works is the remarkable Rhea Seehorn, who can convey more with a furrowed brow than most actors can in a page of dialogue. She makes it easy to comply with Pluribus’s insistence on total presence as it meditates on something essential about humankind. — Nick Quah, “Trust in Pluribus”

  1. Episode 9 La Chica o El Mundo
    Pluribus Season-Finale Recap: The Last Temptation of Carol An impeccably wrought finale finds Carol allowing herself to consider the bliss of surrender versus making a hard sacrifice for mankind.
  2. Episode 8 Charm Offensive
    Pluribus Recap: Cards on the Table The intimacy that develops between Carol and Zosia in this episode is sincere yet conditional.
  3. Episode 7 The Gap
    Pluribus Recap: Saving the World Just as loneliness sends Carol to her very lowest, an unlikely ally joins her cause.
  4. Episode 6 HDP
    Pluribus Recap: Leaving Albuquerque Carol sets out to share her revelation about the Others, only to realize it might not matter.
  5. Episode 5 Got Milk
    Pluribus Recap: The Last Woman on Earth A mesmerizing gearshift episode makes us feel the weight that Carol is carrying, in both a literal and figurative sense.
  6. Episode 4 Please, Carol
    Pluribus Recap: Weirdly Honest In her quest to learn more about how the collective’s mind operates, Carol exposes herself to some harsh truths.
  7. Episode 3 Grenade
    Pluribus Recap: Flying Solo Carol is insisting on a level of independence that she surely knows is a fiction.
  8. Episode 2 Pirate Lady
    Pluribus Recap: Peace on Earth Carol gets an unlikely companion and struggles to connect with her fellow nonconforming humans.
  9. Episode 1 We Is Us
    Pluribus Series-Premiere Recap: They Live Vince Gilligan’s new series hits us with a grand-scale alien apocalypse while telling us tantalizingly little about what it all means.

The Latest on 'Pluribus'

  1. gold rush
    The Biggest Snubs and Surprises From the 2026 Emmy NominationsPast expected nods for The Pitt and Hacks, the shocks came fast and furious for Widow’s Bay, Pluribus, and Industry.
  2. finale thoughts
    Finding Manousos’s FrequencyEmbodying Pluribus’s most disciplined, stubborn character was “a beautiful challenge” for Carlos-Manuel Vesga.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  3. finales
    Rhea Seehorn Doesn’t Know What Carol’s Gonna Do, EitherThe Pluribus star explains her understanding — or lack thereof — of the season finale: “I’ve gone through a lot of possibilities.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. exit interview
    Pluribus S01
    Vince Gilligan Would Prefer You Explain Pluribus to HimYes, he has answers about that finale — and that cliffhanger — but he’s more interested in viewers’ interpretations.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  5. lingering questions
    7 Other Questions for Pluribus Season TwoThere’s still so much to learn about the Joined side of the equation.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  6. mental health check
    How Are You Doing, Carol?Let’s break down our Pluribus survivor’s breakdown, one episode at a time.
    By Erin Qualey
  7. profile
    Rhea Seehorn Assembles the Puzzle PiecesIn Pluribus, she plays the prickliest woman in the world, a role Vince Gilligan wrote just for her.
    By Jackson McHenry
  8. spokesplurb
    Pluribus Got the Right Face for the JobThe show has done an exceptional job casting the hive mind’s various mouthpieces, but for this week’s cameo, it brought in a ringer.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  9. chat room
    How Pluribus’s Samba Schutte Keeps Koumba From Being a Hedonistic Creep“We talked a ton about getting the right tone. Discussions around consent came up a lot.”
    By Nicholas Quah
  10. in conclusion
    The Best TV Performances of 2025Scene-stealing ensemble players as impressive as the leads shouldering entire series.
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