Spoiler alert: The following contains details about the first two episodes of Pluribus , “We Is Us” and “Pirate Lady.”

In Episode 2 of Pluribus , Carol Sturka ( Rhea Seehorn ) and Mr. Diabaté (Samba Schutte) — two of the 12 people worldwide who have been inexplicably spared The Joining, an alien-originated mass event that psychically glues everyone together into a perennially positive collective consciousness — spar over the newfound state of humankind.

Carol, a reclusive and disgruntled bestselling romantasy author, exhorts her reticent audience of five immune English speakers to reclaim human agency against the milquetoast, obsequious blob and join her in a quest to reverse the happiness apocalypse. But, Diabanté questions, isn’t a world without strife, oppression, war, famin

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