(courtesy IMDb)
SNAPSHOT
“A new series from the creator of Breaking Bad.” The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness. The series is set in a present-day Albuquerque, New Mexico that faced an abrupt change away from the world as it is known. Pluribus is a sci-fi series created and showrun by TV writer / producer Vince Gilligan, best known as the creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul who worked on them until they finished; also a writer on The X-Files, Hancock, Metástasis, and Battle Creek. With writing by Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock, Vera Blasi, Jenn Carroll, Jonny Gomez, Ariel Levine. And eps directed by Vince Gilligan and Byron Howard. Made by High Bridge Productions, Bristol Circle Entertainment, & Sony Pictures Television. Executive produced by Vince Gilligan, Jeff Frost, Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock, Allyce Ozarski, Diane Mercer. (courtesy First Showing)
Who doesn’t want to be happy?
Right now – everyone!
But in the weirdly and unsettling happy clappy world of Pluribus, a strange virus has everyone happy and content and thoroughly miserable author Carol is having none of it.
Can she save the world from a surfeit on contented bliss? You can only hope so; while the idea of blissful happiness seems quite lovely, Pluribus might make you think otherwise …
Pluribus premieres its first two of nine episodes on AppleTV+ on 7 November, with the remainder releasing weekly until Boxing Day, 26 December.