Pluribus

This is some of the best television I’ve seen in a long time. The premise is hilarious, the actress cast for the lead role is perfect, and the pacing is excellent.

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It’s not often a woman is cast in a role in which her character is a total jerk, (but not so much of a jerk that it’s absurd or impossible to believe). The actress, Rhea Seehorn, plays Carol Sterka with just the right amount of cringe. It’s fascinating to see on-screen and to hear my own internal dialog about it.

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But more than the acting, the story is very clever. The premise is that humanity is taken over by a virus that turns everyone into impeccably pleasant people who inhabit a hive-mind.

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Carol and a few other people are immune somehow and, while the aliens work to figure out how to assimilate the immune folks, Carol goes on a quest to figure out how to free (or kill) all of humanity.

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This is deeply psychological in that it gets us thinking about how we would react to a situation like this and what we would do or not do about it. This is really great television.

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