Vince Gilligan wisely ended the "Breaking Bad" universe to focus on something completely different, a new Apple TV+ series called "Pluribus." The show follows romance author Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), one of the few people left on Earth who hasn't been affected by a strange virus that makes people optimistic. As such, she's miserable while everyone around her is far too happy. It's a fascinating setup, but what does it mean? Well, there's a line in the first episode that hints at what the show may actually be a metaphor for.

At one point, Davis Taffler (Peter Bergman) talks Carol through this new reality, and when she asks how the hive mind works, he says, "We don't know exactly. It just does." On one hand, this is an easy cop-out to avoid getting bogged down in sci-fi mumbo jumbo, but

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