In Apple TV’s Pluribus , it’s the end of the world, and nobody’s having a good time. Well, unless they’re Koumba Diabaté (Samba Schutte), one of the handful of human survivors of the mysterious “Joining” that merged almost all of humanity into a single, peace-loving hivemind. Unlike the series’ lead character, Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), who is desperate to find a way to revert the Joining process and bring back the old world, Diabaté has embraced the new reality he’s found himself in, living it up in Las Vegas, role-playing as James Bond, and partying with celebrities and supermodels (or at least members of the Joined who are fine with indulging his extravagant fantasies.)

Their two worlds collide again in “HDP,” the series’s most disturbing installment to date, which reveals that w

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