When Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan announced his new series, Pluribus, we knew next to nothing about it. We knew it was Apple TV’s next big bet in experimental sci-fi, a market the streamer had cornered with series like Severance, Foundation, and For All Mankind. But unlike those series, the plot wasn’t immediately obvious. You can describe the premise of something like Silo very easily, but the only description for Pluribus described it as: “following the most miserable person on Earth and the one who must save the world from happiness.” And the official trailer didn’t reveal much else.
Thankfully, Gilligan keeping the cards close to his chest pays off tenfold. Pluribus is the best sci-fi mystery since Severance, folding in elements of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Lost, The Good Place, The Last of Us, and even The Last Man on Earth, all anchored by Seehorn’s virtuosic performance. It’s a late addition to 2025’s TV offerings, but it’s soon to shoot up your list of best TV shows of the year.
