{"id":141897,"date":"2025-11-19T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/141897\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:31:08","slug":"the-one-thing-pluribus-carol-sturka-has-in-common-with-better-call-sauls-kim-wexler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/141897\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Thing Pluribus&#8217; Carol Sturka Has In Common With Better Call Saul&#8217;s Kim Wexler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For a very long time, we knew exactly one (1) thing about Vince Gilligan&#8217;s Apple TV series &#8220;Pluribus&#8221;:\u00a0He wrote the lead role specifically for &#8220;Better Call Saul&#8221; star Rhea Seehorn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This lone morsel of information was all we had to go on for literal years of the show&#8217;s development, forcing us all to speculate on what Gilligan has cooked up for her. But at long last, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2019098\/pluribus-review-vince-gilligan-rhea-seehorn-apple-tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;Pluribus&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8220;Pluribus&#8221;<\/a> has finally arrived, and perhaps the most shocking thing of the explosive premiere was just how different Seehorn&#8217;s character Carol Sturka is from her Emmy-nominated role as Kim Wexler on &#8220;Better Call Saul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kim Wexler was fierce and indomitable: a lawyer with such a strong moral backbone, she&#8217;ll walk away from it all to save her soul. Carol, on the other hand, is trapped in the muck of her regrets and resentments, all too comfortable living a life of consistent disappointment. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/rhea-seehorn-pluribus-secrecy-interview-1236426437\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Hollywood Reporter,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Hollywood Reporter,<\/a> Seehorn addressed the one thing that the two characters have in common, despite how different they seem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Somewhere deep, deep down, [Carol] has this thing where she&#8217;s going to fight for what she thinks is right,&#8221; Seehorn pointed out. &#8220;That is probably the only thing that&#8217;s similar to Kim Wexler, the character I played [on &#8216;Saul&#8217;]. Other than that, they&#8217;re pretty much polar opposites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Kim Wexler fought her way out of the trenches of the law firm Hamlin, Hamlin &amp; McGill, she never let the petty indignities of the work get in the way of doing what had to be done. And here, too, Carol carries on that spirit, as she is seemingly the only person left on Earth who thinks being assimilated into an alien mass consciousness isn&#8217;t such a good idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2011413\/what-to-watch-november-2025-tv-premieres-finales\/?zsource=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:What To Watch In November: Your Guide To 200+ Premieres And Finales Across Broadcast, Cable And Streaming;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">What To Watch In November: Your Guide To 200+ Premieres And Finales Across Broadcast, Cable And Streaming<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kim was the hero we all wish we could be, but Carol is &#8216;reluctant&#8217; to lead the charge on behalf of humanity<img alt=\"Kim Wexler leans against her car with her arms crossed in a maroon suit in &quot;Better Call Saul&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/98d8647a42172732bfca0052b095bc48.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kim Wexler leans against her car with her arms crossed in a maroon suit in &#8220;Better Call Saul&#8221; &#8211; AMC<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gilligan has said he was inspired to make &#8220;Pluribus&#8221; because he was tired of writing villains, but that doesn&#8217;t mean Carol is a goodie-two-shoes. Seehorn recounted how Gilligan has reminded her that Carol is &#8220;a very reluctant hero&#8221; who hopes someone else will go through the struggle of saving humanity so she can wallow in her grief following the death of her manager and partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite their differences, both Carol and Kim surprise themselves with how capable they are of fighting through the pain. While Kim was able to maintain the facade of having everything under control, Carol is all exposed nerves and explosive emotions. The characters could hardly be more different, and it&#8217;s thanks to Seehorn&#8217;s fearless portrayal of them that Carol remains a sympathetic protagonist even as she pushes everyone else away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is one more thing the two characters have in common: Seehorn was crowned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/awards\/best-tv-performance-2022-better-call-saul-rhea-seehorn-1234907743\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TVLine&#039;s Performer of the Year in 2022;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TVLine&#8217;s Performer of the Year in 2022<\/a>\u00a0for her work on &#8220;Saul&#8217;s&#8221; final season,\u00a0and the debut of &#8220;Pluribus&#8221; had her retake the throne as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2020286\/rhea-seehorn-performance-pluribus-carol-apple-tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Performer of the Week.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Performer of the Week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Enjoyed this article? <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.tvline.com\/newsletter-syndicated\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up to TVLine&#039;s free newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sign up to TVLine&#8217;s free newsletter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tvline.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:add us as a preferred search source;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">add us as a preferred search source<\/a> for the latest in TV, streaming and movie news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2030376\/pluribus-one-thing-carol-sturka-common-better-call-saul-kim-wexler\/?zsource=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:original article on TVLine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">original article on TVLine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a very long time, we knew exactly one (1) thing about Vince Gilligan&#8217;s Apple TV series &#8220;Pluribus&#8221;:\u00a0He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[75229,86904,87620,458,146,85,46,87619,68263,75230],"class_list":{"0":"post-141897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-better-call-saul","9":"tag-carol","10":"tag-carol-sturka","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-kim-wexler","16":"tag-rhea-seehorn","17":"tag-vince-gilligan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}