SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Episode 3 of “ Pluribus ,” streaming now on Apple TV.

Meat Loaf once sang, “I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that .”

And in the third episode of “Pluribus,” the hive mind that has conquered nearly all of humanity tells Carol, “We would do anything to make you happy, including giving you a hand grenade.” (I’m paraphrasing.)

In this week’s installment of Vince Gilligan’s dystopian (or utopian?) Apple TV drama, Carol (Rhea Seehorn) learns just how far her new friends will go to please her. The answer, apparently, is nuclear.

The episode opens with a flashback seven years before “The Joining,” when billions of people were suddenly abducted into one collective consciousness, resulting in hundreds of millions of casualties, in

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