What Does the ‘Pluribus’ Ending Mean? I Asked Star Rhea Seehorn to Explain

In its nine episodes, Pluribus quietly dismantled the alien invasion genre and rebuilt it in the signature storytelling style of Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. Just a few years out from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the hit Apple TV series introduced a novel disease where most of the world’s population contracts an otherworldly happiness virus.

At the center of the story is Carol Sturka (played by Rhea Seehorn of Better Call Saul), a successful yet cantankerous romance novelist. When reality…