Pluribus (2025)

published 2026-01-09 | tags: #backlog #tv

During some travel in early January I downloaded and watched Pluribus knowing very little about the show, just that it was made by Vince Gilligan which is enough to get me on board.

I really enjoyed the deep dive into what it would be like to "live with a hive mind".

I also really enjoyed the tact that the story had in it's critique of LLMs, although I think those critiques go beyond LLMs which I appreciate.

Once scene in which a culture is erased in a very clinical fashion was really interesting and brilliant writing.

The show is written in such a way that a lot of it can be seen as critiques of modern problems, like LLMs, but "in the fiction" enough that in 10 or 20 years I think it'll be worth re-watching as those same devices will likely feel like comments on new modern problems. Good writing. Good story telling.