Hi Carol! We think you’re really going to like this news: episode five of Pluribus arrives on Wednesday instead of Friday this week. That means you can see what happens next in Earth’s bland yet nightmarish new dystopia before you tuck into your Thanksgiving meal—made entirely from ingredients purchased at Sprouts, presumably.
Pluribus, the Apple TV sci-fi series created by Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul‘s Vince Gilligan, follows the lonely, confusing, and (carefully) rage-filled life of Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), one of few people unaffected by an alien virus that links most of the world’s population into an eerily upbeat hive mind.
So far we’ve seen Carol grapple with the painful loss of her wife, who didn’t survive “the Joining,” as well as the agony of seeing her few fellow holdouts shrug off the changes—or worse, embrace them. Then, there’s the sheer existential horror of the way things are now, even if her personal hive-mind “chaperone” (Karolina Wydra’s Zozia) looks distressingly like the lead character of Carol’s romantasy book series.
Episode five, in classic Pluribus enigmatic form, is titled “Got Milk” and is described only as follows: “Carol doubles down on her investigation—loneliness be damned. Meanwhile, howls in the night reveal a new source of danger.”
We love Detective Carol, and we do remember seeing Zosia sipping milk in the hospital after her close encounter with that grenade. So that could be something. But dangers in the night (what could be howling?) sound very concerning and certainly nothing old episodes of Golden Girls could drown out. We’ll find out what that means on Wednesday this week, when Pluribus makes its special early arrival on Apple TV.
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