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Pluribus has sparked probably as much conversation as the original season of Severance at this point, hence a hasty season 2 renewal. Everyone is trying to figure out where things are going, but now fans seem to have caught a detail that is going to make the rest of the season a lot more harrowing for Carol, at least until she figures out what we all seem to have discovered. Spoilers follow.<\/p>\n
Two major things were revealed in this past week\u2019s episode of Pluribus<\/a>. First, Carol discovered that the Hivemind is grinding up bodies and drinking them in milk. Gross, but then John Cena appears to explain that actually, it\u2019s okay, given that the bodies are already dead and they\u2019re not killing anyone. Given that they can\u2019t even harvest plants due to their \u201cno kill\u201d programming, they need to do this, or they\u2019ll starve to death. But even doing it, they\u2019ll starve in a decade anyway.<\/p>\n Second, Carol learns that the Hivemind has, in fact, figured out a way to get the remaining survivors integrated into the network, and that\u2019s using their stem cells. The problem, however, is that stem cells are invasive to harvest, so they need express permission from the survivor in question. They don\u2019t give it, they won\u2019t do it. <\/p>\n Once Carol learns this, she immediately calls the Hivemind to leave a voicemail to say she does not give them permission to take her stem cells. They respond with a message on a billboard that says, \u201cWe hear you Carol, you do not consent. No stem cells will be collected from your body.\u201d That satisfies Carol, it seems, but\u2026uh oh.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom your body.\u201d<\/p>\n Fans have now remembered a line from episode 3 of Pluribus when she\u2019s staying at the ice hotel, and says she could have saved a hundred grand freezing her eggs by just staying there instead. <\/p>\n Well, guess what\u2019s in frozen eggs? Stem cells. And the Hivemind is known to find loopholes to get what they want. Those stem cells are not in Carol\u2019s body and therefore, they wouldn\u2019t be harming \u201cher\u201d or breaking their word. This all calls back to something Zosia said about how you\u2019d automatically rescue someone you saw drowning, which is how they view the disconnected survivors.<\/p>\n We have three episodes left in this first season of Pluribus, and I have to imagine a lightbulb will go on in Carol\u2019s head pretty soon, realizing this, and causing her to race to try to get her eggs wherever they were stored in Albuquerque (though the power was off for a while, no?). Whether they\u2019re there or not remains to be seen. I don\u2019t think this is just a theory, I 100% believe this is where things are going, but we\u2019ll find out shortly. Maybe as soon as this Friday.<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>,<\/a> Bluesky <\/a>and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n