'Pluribus' Questions Answered: Vince Gilligan and Cast Discuss Carol's Turnabout, Seizing Babies and More
Is Diabeté having sex with literally everyone? Did we nearly see a Joined baby? Here's what the 'Pluribus' team shared.
Created by Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad), Apple TV's Pluribus stars Rhea Seehorn as Carol Sturka, a romantasy novelist who upon returning home from a book tour is harrowed to witness the Joining — an otherworldly event that psychically "glues" nearly the entire global population into one people-pleasing hive mind.
Carol is one of 12 people, worldwide, not affected by this "virus." Having watched her wife Helen (Miriam Shor) tragically die during the Joining, Carol sets out to unite the others like her in a mission to fix the world. None of the five she meets up with in Bilbao, however, see a problem with a life populated by happy people.
The second episode ended with Carol ready to fly home to Albuquerque — and in doing so, leave her Joined "chaperone," Zosia (Agents of SHIELD's Karolina Wydra), in the "harem" of unaffected playboy Koumba Diabeté. But at the last minute, Carol darted off her airliner and onto the tarmac, to wave to a stop the Air Force One 747 Koumba uses as his personal jet.
I spoke with Gilligan, Seehorn and Wydra ahead of Pluribus' PaleyFest showcase in New York, where they fielded (best they could/would!) a few of my uniquely burning questions about the sci-fi series....
