Rhea Seehorn in a world Breaking Glad. Vince Gilligan's PLUR1BUS on Apple

First two episodes available now then weekly instalments.

Your life is your own, Carol

thought abt starting this & would have exactly used that “your life is your own, Carol” quote so well done

this show seems extremely good so far based on moral of second episode (‘americans are worst xunts going’)

from reading early reviews I might have gotten the wrong end of the stick - rhea seehorn is the heroine apparently though you’d never know it from her nauseating individualism and narcissistic total absence of curiosity in the first two episodes. interested to see how they develop this to make her perspective more sympathetic - have to say the blissful community and interconnectedness of everyone else on earth seems mildly idyllic (and def not at all dystopic - notwithstanding the mortality figs) so far

Vinny gills has done it again

starting this tonight -excited to dig in!

I like it so far

Seehorn’s contrarianism & fear & righteous indignation speaks to me pretty deeply so I enjoy the growing sense that she is on the outer rather than the hero. Also the shiny + creepy vibes of the whole thing is very good

Albuquerque suburban sprawl & its associated architecture continues to confuse, delight, amuse & fascinate me

Rhea Seehorn is the GOAT

The Mauritania dude & his Fanta Girls is v good

Carol frisbeeing the sunhat over the fence, and her sitting in the VERY back row of the plane = god-tier contrarianism no notes.

Oh also in ep1 the CSPAN phonecall w the President/Secretary of Agriculture and the buzz words of their convo appearing in the chiron was so funny to me

I did chuckle at the Indian (?) woman's look of angry FFS! at Carol when her son is fitting next to her after Carol's latest outburst has set them all off again.

Did I miss them explain how almost the entire planet seemed to turn at the same time? Like it seems to need fluid transfer to spread at first (kissing, licked donuts etc) so not sure how it then happened to everyone instantaneously

yeah i tried not to ponder that stuff too hard i dont really get it

It did lead to that fantastic sequence at the bar so not going to complain too hard

I assumed they dispersed it in the _chemtrails_

wonder if we’ll get a sutter cane-like situation - ‘bitter chrysalis’ seemed a little too pointed

Of course, lol xp

This is like that twilight zone episode where the guy wakes up and he’s the same but everyone else is different!

For real tho, very it’s a good life in particular. Also thought of watchmen with the idea of this v extreme cataclysmic intervention for supposedly benevolent purposes

I laughed at the doughnut licking scene coming AFTER the agar plate sequence, v funny hat on a hat

The whole concept of this is so clever, upending the idea that zombie-like infections have to be spread in a horrible way and that becoming infected is a fate worse than death. Apart from anything else, it saves the production company a lot of money in special effects to simply spread an infection through kissing rather than ripping each other's throats out.

I would like to know that there's a full roadmap for this series before I get too invested in it, though. I mean, I've more faith in Vince Gilligan than I would in, say, Damon Lindelof, but still.

Thought this was toe curlingly bad!

just finished the first episode and I’m dying at the chyron messages on the tv while she’s on the phone

so good!

Dying at Peter Bergman showing up. Didn't know he existed outside The Young and the Restless

omg i didn’t realize that’s who it was! perfect casting

i was listening to a lovely interview w Gilligan on The Watch podcast this morning and i am struck by this feeling that maybe is just unique to me, not saying its a universally held truth by any means but:

i feel like just in terms of loyalty and creativity, Gilligan is sort of like an American George Miller.
Crews and actors work w him for years and he engenders so much loyalty in his projects; but also he never ever stops praising and giving credit to the people who get him to this place of fame, etc. They both have that.

I dunno.

Obv George for me is one of one, let’s be real, but Gilligan gives me a little of that flavor and I enjoy not only the things he creates, but listening to him talk, and listening to ppl talk about him.

It’s good when good ppl create good things!