"Very well-received": Pluribus star Rhea Seehorn is hopeful about the Apple TV thriller's positive audience response

Apple TV's Pluribus has been received by the audience with glowing reviews and much praise, and Rhea Seehorn, who leads the show is opening up on feeling grateful for the love the show has been receiving. If you're following the science-fiction drama, you must be aware of its dystopian themes that revolve around humanity's decline to succumbing to hive mind. Led by Seehorn, who plays the role of Carol Sturka, the show has already been renewed for a second season, thanks to it's popularity and unique themes.

Talking about the show and it's reception, the actress spoke to The Hollywood Reporter

"I have been told it's being received very well. One of the most gratifying things after you just get past relief, which is the main reaction, is the fact that it's inspiring so many conversations. This portrait of isolation is inspiring all these conversations with people of a variety of sorts. And people come to it with what they're going through."

She then continued to talk about the conversations Pluribus is initiating among fans, as she added,

"Whether it's talking about isolation, whether it's talking about grief, uh I've had people want to talk about AI, people want to talk about the pandemic, divisiveness in the country. It's just bringing up a lot. And then it has this humor and I'm hearing from people that they're watching it together with their parents or their children or they're getting together with friends and talking about it. I was like, that's amazing. That's just very gratifying."

More details about Pluribus

Pluribus marks Vince Gilligan’s return to science fiction with a story that mixes alien terror, strange serenity, and a surprisingly intimate character study. Rhea Seehorn leads the series as Carol Sturka, a novelist whose quiet life in Albuquerque is overturned when an extraterrestrial virus fuses nearly every human being into a unified consciousness known as the Others. Carol, somehow immune, becomes one of only thirteen people on Earth who remain fully themselves, making her both a curiosity and a reluctant symbol of human individuality. The show’s title nods to the idea of “out of many, one”, though here that unity arrives in a deeply unsettling way.

Gilligan drew inspiration from classic science fiction while shaping the show’s tone. The Twilight Zone, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and other mid-century works served as reference points for imagining humanity under total psychic control. A lot of critics noted echoes of The Prisoner, Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, The Leftovers, and even Apple’s own Severance, especially in the show’s fascination with altered consciousness and the fear of losing one’s inner world.

The result is a series that feels timely, stylish, and unsettling in the best way, using science fiction to ask what remains of a person when the world insists on becoming one mind.

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Pluribus is streaming on Apple TV.

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