Pluribus
2025
Original language: English
- drama
- sci-fi & fantasy
The story
The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
What it’s like
Bright, sun-bleached New Mexico light falls on wide desert skies, flat horizons, and tidy suburban streets, with the calm framing of a show that lets ordinary rooms sit still and reveal their wrongness. The palette runs to dusty ochre, pale turquoise, and clean whites, so the cheerful surfaces feel faintly off. The score is sparse and unhurried, with long stretches of quiet that make every odd, too-smooth exchange land harder. Its vibe is sun-drenched unease with a dry, dark-comedy edge. It suits a weekend evening when you want something that is strange and funny without being cosy, or a late-night watch alone. The pace is measured, the tone wry and disturbed, and its central arc follows a prickly, isolated woman forced to confront what it means to be alone among people who seem perfectly content. Intensity is moderate: occasional violence and some unsettling, bleak scenes, with little gore and no gratuitous cruelty. It is for viewers who enjoy slow-burn sci-fi, misanthropic humour, and characters who refuse to be charmed.
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