For a minute there, we were wondering if Apple TV would just straight-up skip releasing trailers for Pluribus, coasting instead on the fact that it’s a new show from the creator of Breaking Bad (Vince Gilligan) that stars an actor from Better Call Saul (Rhea Seehorn). But then they went and released one teaser trailer, and now a second, full one.
Said trailer remains cheerfully vague, though. I say “cheerfully” purposefully, because the premise of Pluribus is that everybody in the world is happy. Except Carol (Seehorn).
The only thing Apple TV will say about the series is this: “Picked up in a two-season order, Pluribus is a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.” The trailers so far have also made it clear that not only is everyone else on Earth happy, but they want Carol to join them. And they tend to talk in the royal “we” about it. Are the rest of the people in the world just plain old run-of-the-mill happy (terrifying), or is something else going on here?
Honestly, I’m not sure it matters. Pluribus has the same sort of chaotic odd-woman-out vibe that Mrs. Davis did. In that show, Betty Gilpin played Simone, a nun going up against an extremely powerful artificial intelligence called Mrs. Davis. I feel like Simone and Carol would be friends.
Because this series is set in New Mexico and stars a Better Call Saul vet, it feels necessary to mention that it is not at all part of Gilligan’s previous TV universe. Gilligan himself has said, “no crime, and no methamphetamine.”
Along with Seehorn, Pluribus stars Karolina Wydra (Sneaky Pete) and Carlos-Manuel Vesga (The Hijacking of Flight 601), and has as guest stars Miriam Shor (American Fiction) and Samba Schutte (Our Flag Means Death’s Roach). Its first season premieres on Apple TV on November 7th. But… will it make you happy?
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