Spoiler alert: This story contains details about the first five episodes of “Pluribus.”
In “Pluribus,” Apple TV’s new hit science fiction show, the apocalypse seems downright cheery.
After humanity receives a signal from outer space, they accidentally manufacture an alien virus that infects the world and turns almost everyone into part of a peaceful hive mind. The content collective consciousness seemingly has only one goal: tend to the needs of the few unaffected people on the planet. For one of those people, author Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), that might be even worse than all the death and destruction that came with the birth of the hive mind.
