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What's the verdict on the show Pluribus?
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Date: December 9th, 2025 11:59 AM Author: Angry Trust Fund (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49496505) |
Date: December 9th, 2025 12:00 PM Author: Motley Lay Chad My buddy, pete, whose taste in TV and movies is unassailable said it's very good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49496513) |
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Date: December 9th, 2025 12:02 PM Author: Angry Trust Fund Someone said it's like an X Files episode stretched out into an entire series. But its Vince Gilligan and he never misses, so idk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49496517) |
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Date: December 9th, 2025 12:11 PM Author: swashbuckling rigpig I'm on episode 4. I don't know how I feel about it atm. I can't tell if this is some kitschy Twilight Zone send-up or if Vince has Something to Say about humanity. But it is entertaining and well-directed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49496550) |
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Date: December 9th, 2025 12:26 PM Author: titillating stain tattoo it is entertaining but needs to land a good finish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49496595) |
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Date: December 13th, 2025 12:42 PM Author: Pearl Curious Meetinghouse Candlestick Maker you're missing out if you're not watching Pluribus directed by Vince Gilligan on Apple TV+ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49506768) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 10:12 AM Author: Pearl Curious Meetinghouse Candlestick Maker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49540544) |
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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:06 PM Author: self-centered bistre institution I’m saving it up until the whole season is released (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49506834) |
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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:18 PM Author: Pearl Curious Meetinghouse Candlestick Maker credited choice
you should actively avoid discussion about it if you want the peak experience |
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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:20 PM Author: self-centered bistre institution I"m not seeing any meaningful discussion of it on xo, no spoilers. If there were long weekly threads about the new episode as it was released, like during Better Call Saul, I would watch and participate, I loved those threads. But as that is not happening, I can safely save them up. |
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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: Soggy Pungent Preventive Strike Windowlicker Would've been better with Walton Goggins (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49506863) |
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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:24 PM Author: Pearl Curious Meetinghouse Candlestick Maker there's no evidence that he won't appear in Season 2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49506872) |
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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:24 PM Author: swashbuckling rigpig Last nights episode taught me about Chunga Palms which I had no idea of. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49506871) |
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Date: December 20th, 2025 10:23 AM Author: Magenta macaca (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49524955) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 10:09 AM Author: swashbuckling rigpig Seems pretty clear to me that the show is an allegory about AI. I know Vince has publicly stated he refuses to use it when writing. Everything about the hive mind in the show has a parallel in GPT/AI if you think about it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49540532) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 10:12 AM Author: Pearl Curious Meetinghouse Candlestick Maker that's a correct reading but it could also be an allegory about the Internet or just GC in general (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49540543) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 10:47 AM Author: swashbuckling rigpig I suppose, but the analogs are pretty explicitly AI - can’t physically harm anything, can’t lie, aims to please no matter how wrongheaded, feeds on people that have expired (this is the biggest tell imo) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#49540628) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 10:49 AM Author: Pearl Curious Meetinghouse Candlestick Maker very tru
the scene where Carol is at her kitchen table with the bald dood is very ChatGPT inspired |
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Date: September 18th, 2026 7:52 PM Author: cowgod Whole show feels like a scathing indictment against Near Easterners and Far Easterners, none of which care about freedom or free will and who don’t have souls. Talking about the other uninfected. Also the Woman Lead implicitly acknowledged Stalin as a worse mass murderer than Hitler. So it feels like they made this show as a nod to the Republican Caucus. Tim Cook was at the inauguration. None of the Infected are white males. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808331&forum_id=2#50143214) |