Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn) is a grouch.

She writes best-selling fantasy novels she thinks are junk. She has contempt for the fans who fawn over her at book signings. She loves her manager and girlfriend Helen (Miriam Shor) but is unsatisfied with her success, even having Helen rearrange her book’s position at an airport store in order to boost its visibility.

In general, she’s an antisocial downer whose every thought and word is colored by discontent. So when the world as she knows it comes to a sudden, terrifying end, she is, unsurprisingly, none too pleased about it.

Pluribus, which premieres Nov. 7 on Apple TV+, is a story about transition that is itself the next phase of the career of Vince Gilligan following the tremendous acclaim of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Aside from

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