{"id":283557,"date":"2025-11-10T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/283557\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:48:09","slug":"lets-talk-about-apples-buzzy-new-sci-fi-show-pluribus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/283557\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s talk about Apple\u2019s buzzy new sci-fi show Pluribus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lead-up to Pluribus has been very secretive. The basic premise \u2014 miserable woman is stuck in a world where everyone is happy \u2014 was known early on, but that was followed by cryptic trailers<\/a> that didn\u2019t really reveal much else. But now we have a much better idea of what Pluribus is after the first two episodes premiered on Apple TV.<\/p>\n

That mysterious nature is the main reason why I avoided almost all spoilers in my initial review of the show<\/a>. It\u2019s the kind of story where preserving that feeling of surprise is very important. But Pluribus is also a series that begs for a deeper discussion. In fact, that\u2019s one of the goals of creator Vince Gilligan, best known for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.<\/p>\n

Before the premiere, Gilligan told me that he loved \u201cthe idea of generating conversations, of generating social interactions, people getting together \u2014 hopefully in person, social media isn\u2019t my favorite thing \u2014 but whatever it takes to get people talking.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s where you come in.<\/p>\n

Now that we\u2019ve all had a chance to watch the premiere, I want to have a book club-style discussion about Pluribus for Verge subscribers right here in the comments. A place where we can discuss things in a spoiler-heavy context, and throw around theories and predictions about what we\u2019ve seen so far. As an added bonus, I\u2019ve actually seen most of the season already, so I can help answer some questions about what comes next without, of course, ruining things before an episode airs.<\/p>\n

So drop all of your questions, theories, and stray thoughts about Pluribus here. I\u2019ll be checking in throughout the day to join in the chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lead-up to Pluribus has been very secretive. The basic premise \u2014 miserable woman is stuck in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,7382,6703],"class_list":["post-283557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-streaming","tag-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}