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After sitting through 4 episodes, all I can say is something better happen soon. The start and series premise was interesting but the writers seem lost at that early point, it just hasn't moved on, to the point of boredom & frustration.

The lead character is not likeable, which is done by design as part of plot, but with little plot movement, she's just annoying, I'm starting to side with the aliens, they're more fun.

Due to this stagnation a claustrophobic edge is developing, which again may be deliberate.but it's getting hard to sit through, I actually fell asleep in Ep. 4.

Production values and dialogue is excellent, but something positive needs to occur, something that opens up hope & direction for the lead character and the viewer, if it doesn't it's going to sink.

"Pluribus" on Apple TV feels less like a show and more like being trapped at a dinner party with that person you cannot escape, and that person is Carol. She is not charming, not complex, not misunderstood; she is simply loud, smug and relentlessly irritating. Every scene with her is like being cornered by a self-appointed life coach who mistakes monologuing for personality. She talks too much, feels too much, explains too much, and somehow still says absolutely nothing. The writers clearly think she is a lovable bundle of eccentricities; in reality she is pure viewer repellent.

By the middle of episode 3 I realised I was no longer watching television, I was enduring it out of stubbornness. The plot might have been salvageable and the world building had some potential, but any redeeming qualities are suffocated the moment Carol opens her mouth. I gave up after episode 3, not because the show was slow or confusing, but because spending another minute with this character felt like a punishment. Life is too short and there are too many other things to watch to waste time on a series built around someone this spectacularly annoying.

What is all the hype about? Vince Gilligan's talented. Sure. Rhea Seehorn was great in Better Call Saul, especially the finale.

But what in the world is going on in this show?

Production values seem B-movie grade. Maybe that's the point?

The plot is frankly ridiculous.

Other than Seehorn, the acting is hard to take, even given the premise that almost all characters are alien-possessed.

But the behavior of Carol (Seehorn) doesn't resonate. Some of her reactions feel authentic, while others defy logic and reason.

If you walk into an ER and every person is paralyzed and shaking uncontrollably, what would you do? Certainly not stick around, or try to talk to them, or (God Forbid) touch them. And yet, Carol does all those things.

The rest is full of holes, silliness and set pieces that showcase Seehorn's ability to perform rage and frustration.

Apparently there are people that find this "amazing" and "masterful".

Maybe the entire series is Carol having an existential crisis in the bar where all the strangeness begins, and the last episode will be her waking up in a hospital. Or maybe this is just bad.

But. I. Don't. Get. It.

Bummer.

Quite well made. Production and all, and still it is of those that just might become Vince Gilligan's 'Alien Earth'..

Usually with Vince we have well written, well produced "situation" where character, even though pushed into hypothetical obviously, still is with the real world environment, where "slow" and "dragged out" bits and pieces such as taking a rest, watching TV, or just buying groceries, a family lunch/dinner, work well as part of the premise, because that is life..

However, here we have "alternative" world, sci fi premise, where mentioned "slow" bits and pieces regardless of all, often do not work, and should be reduced to minimum, because such premise works as an allegory, for which case, the premise (story) must pick up the pace..

Reviews and ratings can be edited, adapted and changed. Six more episodes for this season, and most likely after next two or three, it will be more clear if there's hope for this show, or not..

I don't get the inflated rating, it's an okay series, really stretched out, with very little character development or anything of much going on in the long running episodes (so far 3 are out), hopefully it will improve but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Also it's not sure to the maker what they want the tone of the series to be, at times it's comedy, at times (though very little of it) it's thriller, but mostly it's a drama. Multi genre series have worked, the expanse had pretty diverse genre throughout it's running seasons, however it doesn't really work in this one.

Excited to see Gilligan back and the 1st episode did not disappoint, but the last 2 have been total snooze fests. Carol is absolutely insufferable. Could they have written a worse character. I was rooting for the grenade. As many have said, this has 1 episode left to make grab me, but any more of Carol's insufferable tantrums and I also would rather watch Golden Girls re-runs. Can't believe this thing is pushing a 9 rating.

I'm through 4 episodes, and so far, I will remain neutral. That's why I gave 5 stars; I will update after all 9, and my rating will go up or maybe down. If I had to rate it today, after the dismal episodes 3 & 4, I would give it 3 stars based on the fact that 1 & 2 were really good. Now, they are coasting. Episode 3 was terrible as was 4.

I'm pretty sure Gilligan has something that will rescue this series because after the first 2 episodes, it's going downhill.

Pluribus is the televisual equivalent of watching beige paint dry in slow motion. Apple TV's latest slog is so boring it makes buffering feel eventful, so slow you'll age in real time, and so convoluted that even the characters seem lost. Every "twist" lands with the impact of a wet tissue, every scene drags like it's wearing concrete boots, and the dialogue feels algorithm-generated by a bot that hates you. Save yourself the subscription fee and take a nap instead-same effect, less disappointment.

I've read some incredible reviews for this like it's the second coming in tv format,I mean settle down people. The opening episode presents an interesting world that can literally go anywhere but we haven't seen anything yet so are Apple staffers blowing this up because the language in the reviews read like it.

Episode two offers very little to forward the story despite meeting similar people immune to the 'virus' but still makes for interesting viewing. Im interested to see where this goes but 10/10?? Let's come back down to earth and can those reviewers please unplug from the main frame because you're making this series a reality and its a bit weird.

The first episode is a paint by numbers picture. Last seen in "The Last of us". Although "The last of us" did it way better. Mystery event, fast collapse of society. Yadayada. Colony, Falling Skies, 3 Body Problem, V, Defiance, Invasion (pick one), The Rain, The Strain, Sense8. Pluribus is nothing new or original. Just another uninspired social study in TV Show form with a scifi setting.

The moment i start watching,this series stands at 9.2.

Anything exceeding a 9 communicates this show enters GOAT territory,or its massively inflated and strongly subjected to hype and fandom.so when i see scores like this after just 2 episodes, i always get a little bit suspicious.

Regardless,I embraced this show with an immaculate open spirit, only knowing Seehorn stars,whom i tremendously appreciate.

After 2 episodes in now, i can already confidently guarantee you,this is nothing anywhere close of deserving anything near a 9.

People judging this,after just 2 episodes,as brilliant or masterpiece, and rated it to the same category as TV milestones like the Sopranos, Band of brothers or The wire,is wild...very,very wild

Im sure lots of people are going to have fun with it, but this is objectively absolutely not next level television, elevated story telling or anything smashing never seen before groundbreaking stuff you would associate with such insane ratings.

Also subjectively,for me the humor absolutely didn't work. Its just way too many poor attempts for utter meh jokes falling flat, undermining decent story developing. The show create big mystery ,but narrative wise does very little with it, the focus lies entirely on other more trivial and superficial things,the poor jokes is just one of many.

People having fun with this, that i get, but i put money this show is never going to keep up a score above 9 I wish anyone enjoying this lots of fun for the rest of the ride, but im out!

I'm usually easy to hook. Give me a decent and weird premise and a bit of intrigue and I'm in. I watched three episodes of Pluribus. Not only was I not hooked, I could barely get through them. They are unbelievably boring with long scenes of nothing and constant repeating.

I'm not exaggerating, it made me so impatient that I started watching at 2x speed... and I was STILL bored. I watched certain portions at 5x speed, which would make the dialogue impossible to hear, but it didn't matter since there is barely any dialogue. And when there is dialogue, it's just a boring conversation in one location.

I think part of the issue is the lead actress, who I like, can't carry a show. She is not lead material. But I think it's more on the writing. The problem with most shows these days is they take an interesting idea and stretch it out as much as they can.

Good shows, like Breaking Bad, have several major plot points each episode. Lots of intrigue, lot's of cliffhangers. We see the infamous bathtub acid scene in only the second episode! There are about 40 plot points in the first three episodes. By comparison, Pluribus has about five.

On top of all that, there are so many stupid parts and things that make no sense. Characters act completely unrealistically. There is a takeover of the human race with everyone losing their free will, and characters are like, "what's the big deal?" I couldn't believe it.

Or one scene involving a grenade where the lead does the dumbest thing imaginable. Given her situation, how is she possibly still surprised?

If you're one of the people who somehow thinks Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad, maybe you'll like Pluribus. I said the following about Better Call Saul which also applies here: I think these are 30 minute episodes stretched out to an hour.

(1 viewing, 11/18/2025)

I respect Vince Gilligan. He was involved in The X-Files and was largely responsible for the masterpiece that is Breaking Bad. It's an impressive resume. That's why I was eager to see his new work, Pluribus. At the time of writing this review, three episodes have been released by Apple. I've seen all three, but I don't know if I can bear to watch another.

The main character is unbearable. Okay, I understand that a whole build up is being prepared, but I think it's gone too far. That bad mood isn't funny anymore. It's pathological. What should seem like nonconformity is nothing more than some kind of illness.

The character doesn't care about anyone, does whatever she wants because she's extremely egocentric. It's painful to see someone like that, because it makes you want to see the Unity (yeah, I watched Rick and Morty, as well) get rid of her quickly.

I'll make an effort and I'll try to watch the fourth episode, but definitely, Vince Gilligan is mistaken in his handling of the character. I hope I'm wrong.

This show has zero respect for your time.

Given what happens in episode 3, I expected the nukes to be flying by ep 5, but we got yet another FILLER episode where nothing happens for 95% of its runtime.

It's just boring, and I'm over it. They fooled me once with the cliffhanger ending in episode 3, but no more. I now know it will be just more of the same for the rest of the series, and I don't care for it.

The show has a cool premise, one that's been done before but this is slightly different. It's well acted and I'm looking forward to future episodes but all these 10s have me very confused. It isn't must watch, I was never on the edge of my seat and there wasn't an episode where I couldn't wait for the next one. It's a good show so far but let's pump the brakes on making it a top 5 all time show.

After the first two episodes I have to say it's very disappointing. I thought the premise was promising and we would have a nice comedy, but it's actually a nightmare, and all because of the central character Carol, who is not believable at all. If the situation of the movie was real, any intelligent person would be asking some specific questions and taking certain actions. But Carol is completely uninterested in what is actually happening. Her response to events is just not convincing at all.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills-critics are out here calling Pluribus brilliant, but to me it's a slow-motion slog that goes absolutely nowhere. It's all mood and atmosphere with zero momentum or narrative payoff. Every scene feels stretched out just for style points, and by the end I wasn't enlightened or emotionally moved-just bored and waiting for something meaningful to finally happen. It's the kind of show that thinks silence equals depth, but really it's just empty space.

This review is based on the first five episodes. The first episode was interesting. Some weird alien virus spreads over humankind and makes us an agreeable hive mind, while one of the only people not affected is the most disagreeable woman on Earth. (Even though I would hardly describe her as that...but I think this is the premise.)

The second episode was quite interesting and held my attention. It worked the moral dilemma of whether the few who are not affected by the virus should go with the flow, or resist. I ended up liking the characters and conflict in this episode, even if some of the story premises are a tad wonky.

Episodes 3-5 are just boring and stupid, it's just the lady from Better Call Saul sitting around her home. Mostly the cast is a bunch of extras who do almost no talking. There are one or two scenes that are kind-of-sort-of just okay. It feels like Apple gave Vince a very small budget and he has some weird crush on the star so he just points the camera at her and gives her some weird not that well written material to work with. We get it, Vince. We all love Kim Wexler. But you need to give her a good script.

I just feel this is a "bleh" show without much to say. It's not exciting. It's not particularly interesting. Maybe it will get better, but five ours in and I only liked one episode. I think this is going to be a lot of 45 minute slow episodes of just Kim Wexler standing around doing not much of anything. When all is said and done, I can't say I care about her, the world, or the characters at all.

The hissing sound you hear is the hype leaking quickly out of the marketing bubble that has accompanied the launch of this heavy-handed science fiction 'satire' from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan.

We're told the show is a comedy but I failed to detect any laughs. A scrambled signal from outer space turns all of humanity into smiling, vegan zombies speaking from a single hive mind.

For some reason, Carol (a 40ish misanthropic trash romance novelist from New Mexico) is immune to the signal. Well, her and a dozen or so others from around the world.

The first episode, which sets up the moment humanity turns mindlessly 'happy', is a relative success. But the show quickly goes off the rails in episode 2 when Carol asks the zombie overlords to convene a meeting of the other 'survivors' - well only those who speak English.

Cue the scene when a cartoon cast of an American idea of 'the rest of the world' - bossy Indians, Fu Man Cu Chinese and French-speaking black Caribbean playboys - get lectured by a charmless Rhea Seehorn as Carol, who unsuccessfully tries to convince the rest that this is all a bit weird and that they shouldn't trust the nice smiley people.

As a creator Gilligan reminds me of Woody Allen, with all the latter's strengths and weaknesses. He succeeds when he generates big, universal stories and larger than life characters from a small milieu. But give him a big canvass and a much bigger budget and everything is reduced to cliche.

Do yourself a favour and read Huxley's 'Brave New World' instead. He said all this much better 90-odd years ago.

Like many others i will not inflate the rating based on a couple of episodes. In fact, "Pluribus" hasn't yet actually brought anything fantastic, new or fresh to the table. Many others mentions for example "Rick & Morty" and their episodes with "Unity" and this is pretty much the same concept.

Non the less, it's a good and interesting show, but with some glaring issues. One of them being the pacing. The show contains many prolonged scenes that's just there to fill out time. The same goes for establishing the concept of the hivemind. As for now, that's been tackled with the same questions and answers for three episodes, without moving anything forward.

There's a bunch of other glaring issues with the concept, the characters, how the hivemind works, and so on, but i will stay on the non spoiler part of the hedge.

Besides, this is one of those shows that certainly will expose itself to tons of plot holes, inconsistencies, lack of logic, etc.

I've watched all the, as of now, released three episodes, but from now i will wait until the entire season has aired. The pacing is far to annoying and fruitless for a weekly show if treading water is the established route.

Loose dark-comedy reimagining of The Outer Limits episode "The Grid," but with a completely different twist: no tech dystopia, just an alien, surreal concept that flips the world upside down in a grotesque, ironic way.

Likeable, with a few jokes that raise a smirk, but slow and watered-down: too many scenes drag without bite.

The protagonist is a tough, pissed-off woman, but not exactly a genius - given how available the "people" are, couldn't she herself have put them to work on curing the virus?

From Gilligan I expected a stroke of genius, not thin soup. Hope the next episodes tighten up and don't sink to a ridiculous musical number.

Curious, but not memorable. For now, I'm staying neutral.

There is a particular strain of Apple TV+ drama that has quietly settled into a formula: the "what if" fantasia. What if the whole world went blind? What if sentient AIs erased memory? What if society were rebuilt on ritualised silence, or collectivised dreams?

This newest entry, Pluribus, plays the same speculative game, swapping out one grand existential premise for another, and yet, somewhere in the exchange, the drama forgets to earn its own stakes.

Three episodes in, and what we have is not an unfolding mystery but a stalled mood piece: three hours of a highly neurotic, increasingly inebriated protagonist stumbling through an opaque, vaguely dystopian environment, trying to work out what, precisely, is "going on." She is compelling, intermittently, in the way a marooned actor can be when given nothing to anchor herself but dread and liquor. But the series doesn't yet seem to know what to do with her, let alone with its world.

The problem is one of relatability, or rather, the absence of it. Shows like this often rely on the shock value of speculative extremity - worlds without sight, worlds divided into hive minds, worlds where memory runs on subscription - and assume that premise alone will substitute for pathos. Gilligan has built his piece on impossible foundations, and the impossibility itself becomes an alibi. With nothing recognisably real to latch onto, actors are left with abstraction: how do you "play" a scene when the premise itself is beyond comprehension? What expressions do you wear, what tone do you strike, when the world has no correlate in human experience?

Contrast that with the viscerally philosophical rug-pull of Neo meeting the Architect and realising he is not the first iteration of the "One" but the sixth. That work grounded its wildest twist in emotion, in threat, in action. Pluribus offers the promise of intellectual provocation, the language of identity disruption, collectivised thought, surveillance utopias, late-stage capitalism, and digital selfhood. But right now, these themes are less ideas than wallpaper, invoked rather than interrogated.

Perhaps the series intends to blossom into a rabbit hole of high-concept intrigue, a puzzle-box that rewards patience. It may yet reveal its own Architect, its own paradigm shift. But three hours into a season is late to be still setting the table. There must be a point where the questions broaden and the narrative gives way to adventure. As of now, there is no doorway, no descent, no hook deep enough to compel.

What remains is mood, surface, and implication. Something is wrong. No one knows what. Our lead drinks. The horizon stays grey. With so many shows grappling meaningfully with AI anxiety, class alienation, and the politics of consciousness, this one feels frustratingly ornamental.

It is too soon to declare its failure, but not too soon to doubt its ambition. By invoking the biggest fears of our era, the show sets itself up to say something significant about privacy, personhood, digital sovereignty, loneliness in the age of networks. But that significance must be earned. So far, all we've been given is the setup. And in television, even prestige television, the setup is not enough.

It seemed promising the first few minutes in. But seeing the world fall apart in the first episode was a bit too much. Even for me, I think the 8.5 stars out of ten is a bit too much. I think that rating deserves to be given to resident evil series or a virus show like the movie contagion. This did not hook me.