Pluribus Reviews: Critics Are Saying The Breaking Bad Creator's New Show Is Your Next TV Obsession

Rhea Seehorn is the star of Apple TV+'s acclaimed new series PluribusIf the critics are to be believed, it’s time to lock in and get ready for the next great TV drama.Pluribus, the latest creation from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan, has been raking in top-tier reviews across the board, being lauded as “incredible”, “compellingly strange” and “one of 2025′s smartest shows”, even landing an enviable 100% score on the aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.The Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller centres on author Carol Sturka (played by Better Call Saul’s Rhea Seehorn), otherwise known as “the most miserable person on Earth”, who is tasked with saving the world from happiness when an alien virus threatens to sweep humanity into hive mind contentment.Here’s why it’s been billed as the next big thing…BBC Culture(5/5)“[Vince] Gilligan wraps timely social commentary in sci-fi tropes – and centres the story around a prickly but sympathetically down-to-earth heroine – to create one of the smartest, most entertaining shows of the year [...] A series that is both a plea for humanity and freedom of thought – and that is extremely fun to watch.”The Guardian (4/5)“It takes some chutzpah to make television like this [...] Pluribus has great lines and blackly funny moments but escapist fluff it is not. It’s almost as bleak as real life.”Radio Times (5/5)“Much like the virus does to everyone except Carol, Pluribus twists familiar storytelling beats into something new and otherworldly. The result is one of this year’s most inventive stories across any medium, making Gilligan’s return to TV a bonafide rarity in a sea of recycled ideas we’ve seen countless times before.”Pluribus is the latest offering from Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call SaulThe Times (5/5)“[An] addictive piece of television that, like all the best sci-fi-adjacent content, is as much about asking questions and challenging ideas as it is about the expansive world it creates and the characters that exist within it [...] This show could hardly capture the zeitgeist more firmly.”Empire (5/5)“Pluribus is likely to get you thinking about, among other things, happiness (and the value of unhappiness), individualism versus community, creepy-friendly AI, pandemics, neurodivergence, loneliness, Communism and the philosophical conundrum of goodness not always being good [...] A compellingly strange, Black Mirror-style sci-fi satire. And there are plenty of thrills and laughs along the way.”Metro (4.5/5)“Pluribus may be no Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, but it’s a wonderfully singular and confident step in a new direction for an already masterful writer.”ScreenRant (8/10)“What just may be the streamer’s most intriguing sci-fi premise yet – blending intellectual explorations of utopia and collective consciousness with existentialist dilemmas of individualism and modern loneliness.”Independent (3/5)“Pluribus is by no means bad. Seehorn is excellent, the premise is interesting, and Apple TV’s production work is as polished as ever. But it just isn’t gripping, feeling instead like a satire that’s unsure what, or who, it’s satirising.”The New York Times“It engages a lot of questions about how society is best ordered [...] A wildly fanciful series that feels unsettlingly real at its core. Seven episodes in, I am not entirely sure where Pluribus is going. But to its credit, it gives me the uneasy feeling that we could be going there too.”Financial Times (5/5)“If an argument can be made that television has become increasingly formulaic in the streaming era, then this exhilaratingly hard-to-predict series is an outlier [...] At times it is chilling and eerie, then it is thriller-ish and jumpy, then it is screwball and slapstick. It has a cerebral streak, yet wears its concept lightly [...] Each episode is a surprise, and newly, oddly delightful.”The first two episodes of Pluribus are streaming on Apple TV+ now.MORE TV NEWS:You Have To Hand It To Kim Kardashian For Her Reaction To All's Fair CriticismThe BBC Has Finally Made An Official Update About Doctor Who's FutureThere's Good News And Bad News For Anyone Hoping For A Season 3 Of Nobody Wants This

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