Did you spot this similarity between Pluribus and The Last of Us? Details explored in-depth

The collapse of society due to an overarching virus in Pluribus might come off as extremely unique owing to the fact that the affected are just extremely happy people, but it is not that different from the zombie monsters of HBO's The Last of Us.

Admittedly, the hive-minded people in the Apple TV show are not attacking the unaffected at every turn, forcing them to fight for their survival, but the latest developments in the Apple TV show prove that the differences between these two cataclysmic events aren't as stark as one would think.

Keep reading to find out how Apple TV's Pluribus is similar to HBO Max's The Last of Us in more ways than one.

The Affected in Apple TV's Pluribus and HBO Max's The Last of Us

When Apple TV's Pluribus premiered, fans were quick to appreciate how Gilligan took an often-used genre of a cataclysmic virus and turned it on its head by portraying the affected in a seemingly positive light, who were docile, positive, and non-threatening, even overtly helpful to the unaffected.

This stood in stark contrast to the HBO Max show The Last of Us, the latest exploration of this genre, where a virus affects the planet and infects humanity. The affected are turned into virus zombies, intent on spreading their cause at any cost. Apart from the fact that a virus had affected the world, Pluribus and The Last of Us stood very differently from each other.

However, as the Apple TV progresses, it appears that these two shows have more in common than originally revealed. The entire portrayal of the hivemind in the Apple TV show is dependent on how these affected relish their connection and how positive and nice they are. This nicety extends to all living beings in Pluribus, even plants and animals, leading to an inability to consume them as food. So, the only means of not starving to death is for the hivemind to turn their own dead human beings into a source of food, leading to starvation on Earth.

While the affected in Pluribus cannot force the unaffected to accept the gift and join the hivemind, and this has to be done out of their own free will and consent, the latest episode reveals that this is not completely the case. Spreading the "gift," or the RNA virus, is as important to this hivemind as it was to the zombie virus in The Last of Us.

The latest episode of the Apple TV show, titled "Charm Offensive," has revealed that the hivemind has a major goal: they want (need) to spread their gift, and so they're planning to send the virus to other planets in the same way it managed to reach Earth from planet Kepler-22b. To achieve this goal, the hivemind is planning to build a giant antenna and use up all of Earth's power to spread the "gift," or the virus.

Therefore, humanity is effectively losing its food supply and power resources so that the hivemind can successfully spread the "gift" or the virus. It might not be a fight for survival where a zombie hunts the unaffected to affect them, but Pluribus's virus is no less than a death sentence to all of humanity by taking away its means of surviving.

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