Pluribus TV show discussion thread (7 Viewers)

[WDIK2]

in the frozen hotel scene we learned Carol had eggs frozen. The hive might not need to harm her to get her stem cells.

She had embryos, not eggs frozen right?

I didn’t know there was a difference. I skimmed that scene just now - Carol used the word eggs. Could be a throwaway line and not relevant.

I don't know either. Thought it was embryos but if she said eggs then maybe thats what it is. Embryos are fertilized eggs. I would think eggs would have the correct stem cells, but an embryo only has 1/2 her DNA. I am also not a scientist, so...

You guys might be on to something here. The message read, "No stem cells will be collected from your body." "Your body" seems like an unnecessary qualifier otherwise.

 

[El Floppo]

the whole sequence in Paraguay was gorgeously filmed- the lighting especially.

I'm still not all-in, but it's a nicely made TV show- worth watching just for that.

Vegas guy correcting his eye-patched cards opponent to stay in character was both hilarious and gut-punchingly sad. He's living his best life (line of lambo's out front ), but pretty clear he's working hard to do so against a hive mind.

 

[El Floppo]

Chuckled in episode 1 where it mentioned at the bookstore reading something about a part 4 to a trilogy.
My completely inaccurate guess:

The writer uses substances to enhance her creativity and records it to gather the info.

This show is her unpublished book that is a much deeper genre than her unremarkable romance novels. Wifey never completed the rough draft (she died and can't) and just wanted to placate her (the pod people). Wondering if I should pay more attention to the 'before' portions. Maybe each of the survivors correlates to something in her past (over-induging in Iceland/Finland - wherever it was... because they can... is the wannabe President harem guy, etc).

Final episode should go back thru and show all the ah-ha moments.

Waiting for a barbershop quartet in Skokie reference in the background somewhere.

this would be interesting... I like it.

in the frozen hotel scene we learned Carol had eggs frozen. The hive might not need to harm her to get her stem cells.

She had embryos, not eggs frozen right?

I didn’t know there was a difference. I skimmed that scene just now - Carol used the word eggs. Could be a throwaway line and not relevant.

I don't know either. Thought it was embryos but if she said eggs then maybe thats what it is. Embryos are fertilized eggs. I would think eggs would have the correct stem cells, but an embryo only has 1/2 her DNA. I am also not a scientist, so...

You guys might be on to something here. The message read, "No stem cells will be collected from your body." "Your body" seems like an unnecessary qualifier otherwise.

damn... nice work all of you. I'm just not paying this amount of attention, so I appreciate seeing it here.

 

[urbanhack]

NO

I assume we all know what was under those plastic sheets?

No? I was guessing some kind of body but idk.

Always have to be paying attention.

It can't be bodies. It was just a large commercial refrigerator with tons of produce and other foods. Wouldn't human bodies start rotting even in a refrigerator after a couple weeks or however long it's been?

And again she doesn't immediately get shocked. She lifts the plastic up and looks at it for like 20 seconds. If it was human bodies or parts of bodies wouldn't you recognize that immediately?

or maybe they were vacuum sealed or something and it wasn't easily recognizable at first?

nailed it

 

[Scoresman]

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

 

[Scoresman]

Also, is the implication that Paraguay guy (Paraguy? lol) is driving to the US to meet Carol? How is he going to get past the Darien Gap? That's not a detail Gilligan would miss.

 

[Riffraff]

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

Couple of minutes of screen time. He was on the TV as the spokesperson explaining the 'milk' and body powder.

Also, is the implication that Paraguay guy (Paraguy? lol) is driving to the US to meet Carol? How is he going to get past the Darien Gap? That's not a detail Gilligan would miss.

Good question.
One cannot simply go between North and South America. Mandatory plane or boat ride. At least there isn't any guerilla warfare by the pod people.

 

[shuke]

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

He appeared for like 5 minutes in that segment that Carol watched on TV.

 

[Moe.]

Also, is the implication that Paraguay guy (Paraguy? lol) is driving to the US to meet Carol? How is he going to get past the Darien Gap? That's not a detail Gilligan would miss.

Look at the title of next week’s episode

 

[the moops]

Also, is the implication that Paraguay guy (Paraguy? lol) is driving to the US to meet Carol? How is he going to get past the Darien Gap? That's not a detail Gilligan would miss.

I imagine he is going to struggle crossing the gap. I doubt it gets overlooked.

 

[Scoresman]

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

Couple of minutes of screen time. He was on the TV as the spokesperson explaining the 'milk' and body powder.

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

He appeared for like 5 minutes in that segment that Carol watched on TV.

Very disappointed in both of you.

 

[WVU Alum]

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

Couple of minutes of screen time. He was on the TV as the spokesperson explaining the 'milk' and body powder.

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

He appeared for like 5 minutes in that segment that Carol watched on TV.

Very disappointed in both of you.

I mean, why did they show an audio recording against a blue monochrome background on the TV? Was a weird choice. At that point just make it a voicemail.

 

[Scoresman]

So apparently someone on reddit found a semi-spoiler on Google Earth.

The cul-de-sac that Carol lives on was specially built for the show and you can find it on Google Earth. You can also look for the satellite images from previous dates. So someone took a look at various points in time during the setup of the cul-de-sac and found that at one particular point in time something shows up on the street.

Putting in spoiler tags. It's nothing major, just another clue really if you're into theorizing.

Spoiler

On the pavement of the cul-de-sac at one point during filming, "Come Back" is written in large white letters made to be visible from the sky.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pluribustv/comments/1pc2ltn/updated_google_earth_imagery_may_contain_some/

 

[WVU Alum]

So apparently someone on reddit found a semi-spoiler on Google Earth.

The cul-de-sac that Carol lives on was specially built for the show and you can find it on Google Earth. You can also look for the satellite images from previous dates. So someone took a look at various points in time during the setup of the cul-de-sac and found that at one particular point in time something shows up on the street.

Putting in spoiler tags. It's nothing major, just another clue really if you're into theorizing.

Spoiler

On the pavement of the cul-de-sac at one point during filming, "Come Back" is written in large white letters made to be visible from the sky.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pluribustv/comments/1pc2ltn/updated_google_earth_imagery_may_contain_some/

Seems like it would be tied to the people needing a break from Carol, and her crushing loneliness.

 

[shuke]

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

Couple of minutes of screen time. He was on the TV as the spokesperson explaining the 'milk' and body powder.

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

He appeared for like 5 minutes in that segment that Carol watched on TV.

Very disappointed in both of you.

Care to explain what I'm missing?

 

[Scoresman]

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

Couple of minutes of screen time. He was on the TV as the spokesperson explaining the 'milk' and body powder.

Great episode. But I didnt get the John Cena reference. I might have to watch it again but I didnt see him at all. Was he supposed to make a cameo or something?

He appeared for like 5 minutes in that segment that Carol watched on TV.

Very disappointed in both of you.

Care to explain what I'm missing?

It's a viral meme related to John Cena's theme song where a lyric is "You can't see me". So the joke is anytime John Cena does something you act confused and say you cant see him.

As an example, the local summer league baseball team had a John Cena night where they advertised him throwing out the first pitch. When it came time to do the first pitch, no one was on the mound but they pretended it was happening anyway with the catcher pretending to catch an invisible ball. Hilarious.

It loses something when it needs to be explained obviously.

 

[Harry Manback]

Also, is the implication that Paraguay guy (Paraguy? lol) is driving to the US to meet Carol? How is he going to get past the Darien Gap? That's not a detail Gilligan would miss.

He could just ask them to bring him there. He also could conceivably have a boat.

 

[Gally]

Also, is the implication that Paraguay guy (Paraguy? lol) is driving to the US to meet Carol? How is he going to get past the Darien Gap? That's not a detail Gilligan would miss.

He could just ask them to bring him there. He also could conceivably have a boat.

he could but it doesn't seem like he trusts the hive and wants to stay far, far away from them and have nothing to do with them.

 

[Scoresman]

Also, is the implication that Paraguay guy (Paraguy? lol) is driving to the US to meet Carol? How is he going to get past the Darien Gap? That's not a detail Gilligan would miss.

He could just ask them to bring him there. He also could conceivably have a boat.

Boat is more likely. He so far, has been very hesitant to have any interaction with the hive. For all we know he may not even know what's really going on.

And as someone pointed out, considering the title of the next episode, it's very possible he runs into the issue of driving to the US from South America.

My guess is he gets to Turbo, Colombia, hit's the dead end and the hive is there with a boat or a plane to take him the rest of the way. Whether he accepts, who knows.

 

[WVU Alum]

From Carol being on Vegas, the show jumped back three days to when the guy left in the car. My guess, he drove the whole way and it took 4 days.

 

[Harry Manback]

Also, is the implication that Paraguay guy (Paraguy? lol) is driving to the US to meet Carol? How is he going to get past the Darien Gap? That's not a detail Gilligan would miss.

He could just ask them to bring him there. He also could conceivably have a boat.

Boat is more likely. He so far, has been very hesitant to have any interaction with the hive. For all we know he may not even know what's really going on.

And as someone pointed out, considering the title of the next episode, it's very possible he runs into the issue of driving to the US from South America.

My guess is he gets to Turbo, Colombia, hit's the dead end and the hive is there with a boat or a plane to take him the rest of the way. Whether he accepts, who knows.

A lot of the dangers of crossing that stretch of land is the people. Which wouldn't be an issue for him. But ya, will be interesting if they address it.

 

[Moe.]

I’ve seen some of that Ewan McGregor motorcycle show on Prime The Long Way Up - there is no road that goes through the Darien Gap. He cannot drive through that section. He’s gonna have to fly, walk through it (no way), or get on a boat. It’s a hell of a drive just to even get there from Paraguay. Feels like he’s gonna need hive help but that doesn’t track with what we’ve seen so far.

Supposedly this episode is really good. It’s the last one the critics have seen.

 

[the moops]

From Carol being on Vegas, the show jumped back three days to when the guy left in the car. My guess, he drove the whole way and it took 4 days.

No chance. It takes like 100 hours of driving just to get from the most generous part of Paraguay to southernmost part of the gap. Even if he got through it somehow, it is still another 75 hours to Alburqueque

 

[WDIK2]

Had a hunch about Paraguay guy and just Googled it. Someone on Reddit pointed it out, but I don't know if it's true and I'm not going back through the episodes to check.

Spoiler

They showed a photo of him and his seeming father who was a pilot on his wall — I imagine he knows how to fly a plane.

 

[Galileo]

From Carol being on Vegas, the show jumped back three days to when the guy left in the car. My guess, he drove the whole way and it took 4 days.

Speaking of timeline, I am a bit confused/troubled by the show's clock timer. I may need to rewatch for some detail. After the "event" which is effectively time zero. Carol goes to Spain to meet the other immune folks. This is a couple days after the event, right? I think the end of that episode was around day 5. I believe it was only like day 12 when she goes to Vegas to meet with Diabate. There, Diabate tells her the other immune folks have been meeting regularly twice per week without her. So only like a week has past. How could they have established such a regular meeting practice?

 

[urbanhack]

From Carol being on Vegas, the show jumped back three days to when the guy left in the car. My guess, he drove the whole way and it took 4 days.

Speaking of timeline, I am a bit confused/troubled by the show's clock timer. I may need to rewatch for some detail. After the "event" which is effectively time zero. Carol goes to Spain to meet the other immune folks. This is a couple days after the event, right? I think the end of that episode was around day 5. I believe it was only like day 12 when she goes to Vegas to meet with Diabate. There, Diabate tells her the other immune folks have been meeting regularly twice per week without her. So only like a week has past. How could they have established such a regular meeting practice?

And honestly..their meeting regularly doesn’t fit with the narrative that none of them really cared about the “event” like Carol did…almost like life just goes on. So if that is the case why are they now meeting?

 

[the moops]

I think the clocks are counting down or up to different things. I have also always been pretty high when watching this thing.

 

[identikit]

Blasted through all the episodes, starting yesterday afternoon

So good....

 

[Galileo]

I think the clocks are counting down or up to different things. I have also always been pretty high when watching this thing.

Sure. But it doesn’t seem like the time passage based on the show clock is sufficient for all of the events that are transpiring.

 

[Wingnut]

I think the clocks are counting down or up to different things. I have also always been pretty high when watching this thing.

The clocks indicate before or after the hive takeover.

Clock counting up is how long after.

Clock counting down is how long before.

 

[-fish-]

From Carol being on Vegas, the show jumped back three days to when the guy left in the car. My guess, he drove the whole way and it took 4 days.

Speaking of timeline, I am a bit confused/troubled by the show's clock timer. I may need to rewatch for some detail. After the "event" which is effectively time zero. Carol goes to Spain to meet the other immune folks. This is a couple days after the event, right? I think the end of that episode was around day 5. I believe it was only like day 12 when she goes to Vegas to meet with Diabate. There, Diabate tells her the other immune folks have been meeting regularly twice per week without her. So only like a week has past. How could they have established such a regular meeting practice?

They decided to meet twice a week while they were in spain? So they met twice before Vegas? Doesn't seem that difficult.

 

[Moe.]

I think the clocks are counting down or up to different things. I have also always been pretty high when watching this thing.

Sure. But it doesn’t seem like the time passage based on the show clock is sufficient for all of the events that are transpiring.

Agreed, but I hadn’t thought about it until you pointed it out. He said Tuesdays and Fridays like it had been in place for months. Probably only been one Tuesday since the meeting in Spain. I think it’s more of a continuity error (that term is a little strong) than something that has a deeper meaning

 

[the moops]

I think the clocks are counting down or up to different things. I have also always been pretty high when watching this thing.

The clocks indicate before or after the hive takeover.

Clock counting up is how long after.

Clock counting down is how long before.

Again, I was high, but I thought there was a clock counting down when they showed the Paraguay guy in present time. But maybe not

 

[BlackCrowes]

I think the clocks are counting down or up to different things. I have also always been pretty high when watching this thing.

The clocks indicate before or after the hive takeover.

Clock counting up is how long after.

Clock counting down is how long before.

Again, I was high, but I thought there was a clock counting down when they showed the Paraguay guy in present time. But maybe not

I thought so too

 

[Moe.]

I think the clocks are counting down or up to different things. I have also always been pretty high when watching this thing.

The clocks indicate before or after the hive takeover.

Clock counting up is how long after.

Clock counting down is how long before.

Again, I was high, but I thought there was a clock counting down when they showed the Paraguay guy in present time. But maybe not

They initially showed the clock ticking forward, then it rewound back, then started ticking forward again. That tells us we’re still post-merger. If it were counting down we’d be pre-merger. They wanted us to know he was about three days behind what we had just watched.

The clock has been shown moving forward and backwards depending on context. Just a clever way to do it instead of a text box that says “3 days ago…” or “12 days before hive takeover”

 

[Moe.]

It’s like BC vs AD. The hive takeover is 0 on the clock.

 

[the moops]

It’s like BC vs AD. The hive takeover is 0 on the clock.

Yes, I get that part. I just thought there was some AD counting down too, but maybe not

 

[Harry Manback]

From Carol being on Vegas, the show jumped back three days to when the guy left in the car. My guess, he drove the whole way and it took 4 days.

Speaking of timeline, I am a bit confused/troubled by the show's clock timer. I may need to rewatch for some detail. After the "event" which is effectively time zero. Carol goes to Spain to meet the other immune folks. This is a couple days after the event, right? I think the end of that episode was around day 5. I believe it was only like day 12 when she goes to Vegas to meet with Diabate. There, Diabate tells her the other immune folks have been meeting regularly twice per week without her. So only like a week has past. How could they have established such a regular meeting practice?

And honestly..their meeting regularly doesn’t fit with the narrative that none of them really cared about the “event” like Carol did…almost like life just goes on. So if that is the case why are they now meeting?

Because, I think, despite their insistence their family is still their family, deep down they recognize they are not and crave a real human interaction.

 

[Moe.]

It’s like BC vs AD. The hive takeover is 0 on the clock.

Yes, I get that part. I just thought there was some AD counting down too, but maybe not

Only when it was starting to rewind, but that’s why it lingered and showed it moving forward after the rewinding was done.

I too was really stoned and confused so I rewound that specifically.

 

[the moops]

It’s like BC vs AD. The hive takeover is 0 on the clock.

Yes, I get that part. I just thought there was some AD counting down too, but maybe not

Only when it was starting to rewind, but that’s why it lingered and showed it moving forward after the rewinding was done.

I too was really stoned and confused so I rewound that specifically.

Ahh thanks. Just rewatched that. carol drives away in her state trooper car as we see all the lambos. Clock rewinds 3 days, shows Paraguay guy and it starts counting up again - showing us that he actually received the video earlier and left on his trek north 3 days ago

 

[GroveDiesel]

I'm confident in my sense of humor- has never bugged me if people find stuff funny that I don't and vice versa. that said, I'm not finding this terribly funny the way some of you are... kinda wish I was, but I also didn't find the movie Anora funny (which some of you did)... and ultimately that's fine. but also makes this not as good show for me, even if it's interesting and nicely shot.

I don't recall anyone saying this show was funny. Is it supposed to be? I mean, Rhea's facial expressions and mannerisms are somewhat humorous at times, but this is not a show I laugh at.

Someone earlier in the thread mentioned LOLing at the trash drone. I found it amusing when it wrapped itself around the light pole. But, I wouldn't say it is funny.

Agreed. It’s not a comedy but there are amusing parts. Like the morning after she chases off the coyotes and notices the button that easily gets her access to the shotgun. And then immediately notices the handcuff key on the cop car’s keys that gets the handcuff off that had been stuck on her.

 

[identikit]

I'm confident in my sense of humor- has never bugged me if people find stuff funny that I don't and vice versa. that said, I'm not finding this terribly funny the way some of you are... kinda wish I was, but I also didn't find the movie Anora funny (which some of you did)... and ultimately that's fine. but also makes this not as good show for me, even if it's interesting and nicely shot.

I don't recall anyone saying this show was funny. Is it supposed to be? I mean, Rhea's facial expressions and mannerisms are somewhat humorous at times, but this is not a show I laugh at.

Someone earlier in the thread mentioned LOLing at the trash drone. I found it amusing when it wrapped itself around the light pole. But, I wouldn't say it is funny.

Agreed. It’s not a comedy but there are amusing parts. Like the morning after she chases off the coyotes and notices the button that easily gets her access to the shotgun. And then immediately notices the handcuff key on the cop car’s keys that gets the handcuff off that had been stuck on her.

That's Gilligan's forte.

One scene from BB that comes to mind is Jesse and his STB girlfriend watching a perma-buffering flatscreen TV

 

[Scoresman]

So apparently someone on reddit found a semi-spoiler on Google Earth.

The cul-de-sac that Carol lives on was specially built for the show and you can find it on Google Earth. You can also look for the satellite images from previous dates. So someone took a look at various points in time during the setup of the cul-de-sac and found that at one particular point in time something shows up on the street.

Putting in spoiler tags. It's nothing major, just another clue really if you're into theorizing.

Spoiler

On the pavement of the cul-de-sac at one point during filming, "Come Back" is written in large white letters made to be visible from the sky.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pluribustv/comments/1pc2ltn/updated_google_earth_imagery_may_contain_some/

Well that happened sooner than I thought it would!

 

[Scoresman]

Also, the cinematography during the montage of Manousos driving through South America was incredible.

 

[El Floppo]

Did Carol have even a single spoken word this episode?

 

[Yo Mama]

Did Carol have even a single spoken word this episode?

Yeah, not a lot of dialogue in this one. Aside from Carol’s singing and Manousos’ language recitations, it was a pretty quiet episode.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Did Carol have even a single spoken word this episode?

Yeah, not a lot of dialogue in this one. Aside from Carol’s singing and Manousos’ language recitations, it was a pretty quiet episode.

She also spoke when calling in instructions in on the phone.

 

[Scoresman]

Did Carol have even a single spoken word this episode?

Yeah, not a lot of dialogue in this one. Aside from Carol’s singing and Manousos’ language recitations, it was a pretty quiet episode.

I think its by far my favorite episode. The cinematography alone is enough, but Rhea's acting was great as well. Without uttering a word during the fireworks scene and how she didn't react to not only the firework pointed at her, but her lack of reaction to it narrowly missing and she still being alive was BLEAK.

That Portuguese cover of Age of Aquarius was pretty great too. Just a classic Vince Gilligan TV episode.

 

[Moe.]

I loved it as well. Spotify has been all Hermanos Gutierrez this morning.

 

[El Floppo]

Did Carol have even a single spoken word this episode?

Yeah, not a lot of dialogue in this one. Aside from Carol’s singing and Manousos’ language recitations, it was a pretty quiet episode.

I think its by far my favorite episode. The cinematography alone is enough, but Rhea's acting was great as well. Without uttering a word during the fireworks scene and how she didn't react to not only the firework pointed at her, but her lack of reaction to it narrowly missing and she still being alive was BLEAK.

That Portuguese cover of Age of Aquarius was pretty great too. Just a classic Vince Gilligan TV episode.

We saw both of them go from... I'm all good all by myself to needing "human" contact and help. Cool episode and way of telling the story.