प्लूरिबस

When I started watching it, the series had a 9.1/10 rating, so I was expecting something extraordinary. Maybe I'm jaded, but it definitely wasn't. Nothing revolutionary, nothing new. Not bad, but not innovative either.

The first episode is promising, but the second is rather boring...

We'll see if the rest lives up to expectations, but it doesn't bode well. At first glance, it looks like a series with only dialogue, differing opinions, more dialogue, and not much else.

To be continued...

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.

I enjoyed Pluribus and I think it's definitely a well-made series with solid acting, atmosphere, and an interesting premise. The production quality is high and the story keeps you engaged most of the time.

However, the extremely high rating it currently has - around 9/10 - feels unrealistic to me. While the show is good, it's far from perfect. Some episodes drag, a few character arcs feel underdeveloped, and the pacing isn't always consistent. These flaws make the near-perfect score look more like a hype bubble than an accurate reflection of the show's actual quality.

Overall, I'd say it's a good series worth watching, but the rating creates expectations that the show simply doesn't meet.

A decent show with an interesting premise, but the lead's constant anger gets exhausting fast. Three episodes in, the pacing feels slow and repetitive, which makes her intensity feel even more overwhelming.

Still, the hive-mind concept is intriguing, and despite the flaws, there's enough mystery and potential to keep me curious about where the story might go next.

I'm at episode 3 and the premise of this series is pretty interesting and the programmes are certainly well made with good production values, but my problem is that the main character is an utterly vile, horrible excuse for a human, and it's therefore almost impossible to engage with her. I find I'm constantly wondering why someone doesn't just kill her, and wishing that they would.

Quite where the story is going is hard to predict, but at times it feels some scenes are deliberately dragged to make the most of a set, where it would be better to just keep the story moving. Episode 3 is made up almost entirely of these unnecessarily long filler elements and really achieves very little, so why people are giving this a 10 is beyond me.

Unless you've got endless free time to fill, I'd skip this in favour of something better.