At the Writers Guild Awards earlier this year, Vince Gilligan made waves when he proposed to the room that they focus on writing stories about heroes over villains, as bad guys “have become aspirational” in the current political climate.

He seems to have taken his own advice with Pluribus , his new highly secretive Apple TV series that stars Rhea Seehorn as Carol Sturka, the only person immune to an unexplained virus that transforms the rest of the world into happy citizens.

“I was getting a little weary of writing bad guys — I was looking around at the world and it just feels like a lot of people, not naming any names, but a lot of people seem to publicly take a lot of delight in taking the way they behave in life, taking their cues from people like Tony Soprano and Michael

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