Overview

• Pluribus launches on Apple TV+ on Nov. 7 with two episodes and delivers its nine-episode first season weekly through Dec. 26.
• Apple TV+ has secured a second season renewal before the series even premieres, underscoring the streamer’s confidence in the project.
• Rhea Seehorn stars as Carol, the world’s most miserable person, tasked to save humanity from a mysterious contagion of happiness alongside Karolina Wydra and Carlos-Manuel Vesga.
• Vince Gilligan writes and showruns his first non-crime series in 17 years, produced by Sony Pictures Television with executive producers Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock, Diane Mercer, Allyce Ozarski and Jeff Frost.
• A cryptic teaser titled “Happiness Is Contagious,” featuring a woman in pink scrubs licking donuts, sets an unsettling tone for the genre-bending sci-fi drama.