Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus Debuts on Apple TV With a Weekly Release

Overview

• Three of nine first‑season episodes are now available on Apple TV, with new installments arriving on Fridays.
• Vince Gilligan says it took about three years and more than 100 discarded options to name the series, citing “Be Kind, Remind” as the worst contender.
• “Pluribus” derives from Latin for “of many” and echoes “E pluribus unum,” a usage traced by Encyclopaedia Britannica to texts associated with Virgil.
• The story envisions an alien-triggered shared consciousness that makes most people uniformly happy while a small number remain outside it.
• O Globo reports the show is set in Albuquerque with Rhea Seehorn starring and Bob Odenkirk appearing as a guest, and says a second season has been ordered.