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It’s the End of the World on TV, and We Can’t Get Enough
Pluribus, from the creator of Breaking Bad, asks, what if the apocalypse was a happy place?
Rhea Seehorn in Pluribus.
Photographer: Jeff Neumann/Apple TVThe end of the world isn’t usually so cheery.
In Pluribus, the Apple TV series created by Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad (Fridays through Dec. 26), scientists encounter a mysterious repeating signal coming from outer space. That discovery leads researchers working for the US military to encode a sort of virus that inevitably gets set loose and, after brief periods of mass seizures, leads to a psychic harmony among every human on Earth, who now operate as an “us.”