Vince Gilligan is breaking away from Breaking Dangerous. Streaming this November on Apple TV+ is Pluribus, the following—and immediately extremely anticipated—authentic sequence by the Breaking Dangerous and Higher Name Saul creator. It is scheduled to hit the streamer November 7. Pluribus will star Emmy-nominated actress Rhea Seehorn, marking a Higher Name Saul reunion of types with Gilligan. The present’s official primary plot synopsis reads merely, “Essentially the most depressing particular person on Earth should save the world from happiness.”
So sure, Pluribus is at the moment shrouded in thriller, save for a number of breadcrumbs that set up a deeply ominous but Gilligan-esque tone. (Additionally: It could be science fiction?) On the very least, we all know that it will be far totally different from the grounded crime epics we have been used to from Gilligan for almost 15 years. However simply what the heck is Pluribus truly about? Settle in as we attempt to make sense of a present that nearly defies description.
Rhea Seehorn, within the first official picture of the brand new Apple TV+ sequence Pluribus, from Vince Gilligan. Apple
What Is Pluribus Really About?
It is protected to imagine Seehorn will play a girl named Carol, who is called in one of many present’s mysterious 30-second teasers launched July 28. The teaser features a working telephone quantity, 202-808-3981, which performs a recorded message of an unknown lady speaking to “Carol.”
Whereas plot particulars are at the moment imprecise, Pluribus is poised to be a psychological thriller of some type. Tonally, it feels harking back to one other main Apple TV+ hit, Severance, a sci-fi thriller that turns the company office right into a labyrinth of lies and unanswered questions.
One other teaser for Pluribus establishes a equally sinister and bitterly sarcastic vibe. In a teaser launched July 25, a girl stands alone in what appears to be a authorities constructing after-hours; observe the American flag and what appears just like the Maryland state flag within the far-left facet of the body. The girl stands in entrance of a entrance desk, licking doughnuts and placing them again. (Nasty!) As she does this, the digital camera strikes to a close-up of a handwritten signal that reads, “Assist your self.”
You’ll find proof that the present is going down in Maryland by noting the model of doughnuts. They’re from Sandy Pony Doughnuts, an actual Maryland-based doughnut store with areas in Annapolis, Chincoteague, and Bethany Seashore. On July 26, Sandy Pony confirmed its involvement with the present with a submit on Instagram that exhibits its employees doing a pop-up at San Diego Comedian-Con with Pluribus branding.
And if the title Pluribus sounds acquainted, it is Latin for “many.” “E pluribus unum” (“From many, one”) is the unofficial U.S. motto, printed on the Nice Seal of the USA. If you happen to verify your pockets, you may discover the motto printed on all U.S. {dollars}, dimes, and quarters.
How Totally different Is Pluribus from Breaking Dangerous?
If we needed to guess, fairly a bit. In a 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Seehorn commented on Pluribus as “a really difficult present.”
“[Vince Gilligan is] vacillating between tones and between genres like he and Peter Gould did on Higher Name Saul, nevertheless it’s much more pronounced now,” Seehorn advised The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s a very difficult function and a really difficult present in one of the best ways. It is the whole lot that an actor would need.”
Gilligan himself just lately alluded to telling new tales that do not characteristic the identical shade of antihero that exhibits like Breaking Dangerous popularized within the early 2010s. Throughout his acceptance speech for an award by the Writers Guild of America again in February, Gilligan invited his fellow writers to “write extra good guys.”
“For many years we made the villains too sizzling [and] viewers all over the place, all around the globe, concentrate. They are saying, ‘This is this badass, I wish to be that cool.’ When that occurs, fictional unhealthy guys cease being the precautionary tales they had been meant to be. God assist us, they’ve develop into aspirational.” Gilligan is nodding to the phenomenon that Breaking Dangerous followers noticed Bryan Cranston’s Walter White as a badass, not as a scumbag who jeopardized his household and their well-being even after he made sufficient cash to set them up for all times.
Whereas Rhea Seehorn’s Carol (assuming she’s Carol) won’t be a full-fledged hero like Superman, she most likely will not be Walter White or Saul Goodman both. However we’ll solely know for certain who she is when Pluribus lastly hits our streaming queues.
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