Rhea Seehorn in “Pluribus.”
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Pluribus, a new sci-fi comedy drama from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan, is winning over Rotten Tomatoes critics.
The first three episodes of Pluribus, starring Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn, began streaming on Apple TV on Friday. The logline for the series reads, “The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.”
The summary for the pilot episode of Pluribus, which is titled We is Us, reads, “An astronomer’s discovery turns the planet upside-down; curmudgeonly novelist Carol Sturka (Seehorn) is terrified by this strange new world.”
Created by Gilligan, Pluribus also stars Carlos Manuel Vesga, Karolina Wydra and Miriam Shor.
Rated TV-MA, Pluribus to date has earned a perfect 100% fresh critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 74 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus for the series reads, “Genuinely original science-fiction fare from television veteran Vince Gilligan, Pluribus leads Rhea Seehorn through a brave new world with plentiful returns.”
In addition, Pluribus has earned an 84% “fresh” Popcornmeter score based on 500-plus verified user ratings.
What Are Individual Critics Saying About ‘Pluribus’?
Dan Jolin of Empire Magazine is among the top critics on RT who gives Pluribus a “fresh” score, writing, “Vince Gilligan’s long-awaited return is a compellingly strange, Black Mirror-style sci-fi satire. And there are plenty of thrills and laughs along the way.”
In her “fresh” review summary on RT, Linda Holmes of NPR writes, “If loneliness turns out to be our legacy, Vince Gilligan’s haunting new show Pluribus might be one of the era’s most relevant works.”
Kaya Shunyata of RogerEbert.com is also impressed by the series, writing in her RT summary, “Pluribus quickly shapes up to be one of this year’s most complicated and thrilling television series and has the potential to define this decade like Gilligan’s previous series defined the beginning of the century.”
Nicholas Quah of New York Magazine/Vulture also deems Pluribus “fresh” on RT, writing, “You may watch and wonder what it’s all building toward and what it’s all about, but by the time each episode ends, you’ll find yourself savoring the silence it gave you to think everything through.”
Alison Herman of Variety is also high on the series, writing in her RT review summary, “Pluribus can have the feel of an acting exercise … That’s not a criticism; it’s a joy for a production this big to have such an experimental, risk-taking slant, and for a talent like Seehorn to get the canvas it deserves.”
The first three episodes of Pluribus are streaming on Apple TV.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/11/11/new-series-from-breaking-bad-creator-gets-100-rotten-tomatoes-score/
