Pluribus: Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn on Individuality, Happiness, and Letting the Audience Decide

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In our season 3 finale, Peabody Executive Director Jeffrey Jones goes deep with the legendary, 5x Peabody Award-winning showrunner, creator, and writer Vince Gilligan to discuss his enigmatic Apple TV+ series Pluribus. In the series, curmudgeonly author Carol Sturka is one of the lone humans unaffected by a mysterious virus which has turned the rest of humanity into a strangely-upbeat collective hive mind referred to as the “Others.” In an unusual twist to the post-apocalyptic genre, the series allows the audience to consider a world that might (or might not) be better off than before, asking whether happiness is meaningful without suffering. Then Caty Borum, the pod’s Executive Producer…