Are We Still Loving Pluribus?

Are We Still Loving Pluribus? Since we had a robust discussion last month on whether Pluribus sucks or not, I thought I’d ask: now that the season finale has aired, what did you think of the first season as a whole? My impression of the show has improved slightly, but this feeling remains: It was somewhere around the middle of episode two when I started asking myself if I was supposed to care about Carol and what was going to happen to her, which is never a good sign. I like plenty of shows with unlikable protagonists (like Succession & Seinfeld) but I often can’t get past stubborn & incurious ones - it just seems fake to me and breaks my willing suspension of disbelief. I’m definitely in the minority here, but I just don’t think Carol’s character is very realistic - like, I’m not sure how that post-joining person with that personality got to where she was in the world pre-joining. That said, I find the premise of the show and the intellectual tension of the individual vs. the hive mind very interesting; I’ll give season two a shot. Also, share links in the comments to good writeups/analyses on the finale and season.

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