It’s the end of the world on TV – and we can’t get enough
When society feels on the brink, as it currently does, with climate change and the impacts of AI dominating the news cycle, there’s a comfort in apocalypse narratives.
Rhea Seehorn plays Carol Sturka in Pluribus, a woman immune to a virus that leads to a psychic harmony among every human on Earth.
In Pluribus, the Apple TV series created by Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad, 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”.
