What if the biggest problems plaguing humanity vanished overnight—and there was no more violence, crime, discrimination, or conflict? But what if the tradeoff for all that positivity and bland happiness was outrageously intrusive and creepy? That’s the launchpad that Pluribus , Apple TV ’s newest sci-fi series , blasts off from, with a wonderfully complex main character at its core.

Pluribus is the latest series from Vince Gilligan , who got his start writing on The X-Files and went on to become a producer and director on that show, then created two award-winning series of his own: Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul . The inaugural season of Pluribus runs nine episodes (io9 watched the first seven for the purposes of this review), with the first two streaming today and a

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