Got Milk

After 5 episodes I'm really getting bored of the series. Breaking Bad had the perfect mix of story-heavy and "fly"'episodes. This series only has "fly" episodes bar the first one. In my opinion, the decision to make it a one-(wo)man-show is a real bummer. It works for an episode, but not for 4. The other survivors are mostly plain stupid and annoying like the Indian lady.

If they had a team of survivors working together, they could have kept the same story depth but bring more meaningful conversation to it.

At the current speed every episode is getting worse and the whole storyline is absolutely getting nowhere.

We have seen from Vince Gilligan's previous shows Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul that he is a man that takes him time in storytelling. We can see this here in pluribus; slow yet maintaining an interesting story. Trust in the process. Vince said in an interview that show likely will go for 4 seasons, meaning there is a lot more world building to come.

I'm astonished by the amount of people not taking the time to understand Carol's thinking process this episode, I even saw someone straight up saying they were on their phone waiting for something to happen, and I think that's not okay.

If you're one of these people, do NOT watch the show, This show, like everything Vince Gilligan made, expects you to use at least two braincells to figure out what's going on. Normally this formula wouldn't work in your typical TV show, but since it's VINCE GILLIGAN for god's sake.. the viewer is ALWAYS gonna give the show the benefit of the doubt for anything weird that happens, and in the end, they won't leave disappointed. This has stayed consistent in everything he's made after Breaking Bad.

Vince is the kind of guy that delves deep into a story, he wants you to be engaged in the experience, he wants you to theorize, he wants you to use your brain, he wants you to go wild! You'll probably end up theorizing right or something else will happen that's gonna basically scream "HAH! I knew you were thinking about that! Good try but nope, try again!"

Vince takes the "un" out of "unrealistic", his shows have quite a rare attribute to them that not a lot of shows have: The main character has common sense & isn't so extravagantly smart to the point that it kills the immersion! You don't find yourself screaming at Carol behind the screen because she missed something so obvious, and she's not thinking of stuff that magically turns out to be true like it's some divine intervention, She's acting like a human being! And I think that's the part I love the most about the show, the immersion.. which sadly, most people seem to miss.

This show still has me and I'm eagerly awaiting each new episode but 4 and 5 had several long drawn out sequences that could have been told much more efficiently and all of it combine into one episode. I mean E5 is the consequence of E4. Just pare down the unnecessarily long processes we see play out and get to it. Also the abrupt ending to E5 feels like a contrived cliff hanger after literally no suspense at any point in the whole episode. I love the show's premise but I do wish the episodes were closer to evenly paced.

Bro, Vince Gilligan is bad here - not just a little bad, he's awful. I'm watching his new series "Pluribus." The premise is fantastic, but the plot holes, the distrust of the audience, and the slow pacing are melancholic to the point of pain. It's like seeing the memorial page of your childhood Instagram account - you're surprised, but it hits you with this huge sadness.

The show gives you a fantastic argument that gets you thinking about everything that could happen, but the delivery is stupid.

It's like: everyone became one, everyone became a single consciousness, but that one consciousness became dumb. It can't understand sarcasm?! That's it? Like if we were in everyone's skin at once we'd be idiots? PLOT HOLE PLOT HOLE PLOT HOLE - full of holes, nothing makes sense, and when it tries to make sense it's just with some generic cliffhanger that offers nothing, because in the next episode the artistry dissolves. Art isn't supposed to be real life, it's supposed to be more (or less), but never exactly the same.

It's a boring series, with a boring protagonist, boring pacing, and boring direction. It doesn't deliver, doesn't interest, and doesn't engage. It tries to engage through cliffhangers, but fails miserably, because we don't care about the story anymore (ATM, Episode 5). Just like Breaking Bad - the first season is painful! Maybe in five years it'll become a classic. But for now: BOOOORIIIING

Imagine if everyone were a single consciousness, and everyone had access to all knowledge... except you remove all the important knowledge, and leave only the stuff from math and biology. Then throw away everything related to linguistics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, arts, dialetics, politics, religions and so on - what's left???

Vince Gilligan has absolutely no competence to handle a plot of that magnitude.

But I'm giving it 2 stars because the premise is good, and the first episode is fantastic. Maybe when the season ends I'll just watch a summary (youtube) to see how much the director managed to do with all that money.

Sad.