Spoilers ahead for “HDP,” episode six of Pluribus.

At least someone’s having a good time. Pluribus , Vince Gilligan’s big science-fiction swing of the soul, is as much a philosophical Rorschach test as it is a character study of one miserable writer, and one of the clearest ways it interrogates its ideas is through the handful of humans who weren’t transformed during the Joining and how each copes with the new world. Our protagonist, Carol (Rhea Seehorn), is of course hard at work trying to break global peace and revert everyone to normal. Laxmi (Menik Gooneratne), who’s hostile to Carol, seems to cope by ignoring the stakes altogether because she still has the shell of her son.

And then there’s Koumba Diabaté, an affable, elaborately dapper Mauritanian who greets the end of the wor

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