How ‘Pluribus’ Upends the Power Dynamics of the Apocalypse

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By now, you probably know what Vince Gilligan’s mysterious new series Pluribus is all about (and if you don’t, Dustin wrote a handy explainer yesterday). In a nutshell, an alien virus infects the entire population of Earth, linking everyone’s consciousness into a hive mind, save for 12 people who remain inexplicably unaffected. Part pandemic, part Invasion of the Body Snatchers , the show takes a lot of familiar influences and mixes them into an apocalypse with one compelling twist: the infected are not a threat. Instead, the hive mind is kinda … nice? Too nice, as it turns out - but I’ll get to that.

The first episode dispenses with the outbreak, and once the dust has cleared

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