The Hivemind is not really a bad thing in construction and building things......See bees and ants. Also Albuquerque is not really interesting, Gilligan made it interesting, I guess it is high time for a change of scenery... It takes a few episodes for small time characters to get interesting, I would give time.
I thought it was alright, there are not many team players and heroes in the world. 'It is not how you start but how you close the game.' Your turn, Vince.
I finally caught the first two episodes. Rhea Seahorn is so freaking good. I fell in love with her on Better Call Saul and I knew it was the right decision to make her the star of this new show. Hopefully she gets all the accolades. I've enjoyed these first two episodes. I will be very interested to see where they go with this. Was this part of a pre-invasion phase by the aliens that sent the signal? Or is this going to be exclusively about the conflicts between individualism and collective thought? It feels like a pretty limited range of conflict but I trust Gilligan to make it really interesting. I'm very curious how the collective dealt with those that joined it that didn't agree with the overall worldview that it now espouses. Were the "individuals" that love to eat meat somehow disappointed? Or did that desire just cease to be and was swallowed up by the overwhelming collective desire to not harm anything? Hopefully they delve more into all that as Carol decides to start asking questions and learn about them.
Another boring episode. Just more of rhe seahorn yelling at the pod people about why she thinks they suck. Why waste the audience's time with the 10 minute grocery store scene? No interesting twists, and how could there be when the story goes nowhere.
Fairly interesting so far. I like exploring the premise. Would definitely not want to be a pod person. Vince Gilligan likes handsome blonde women who smoke.
i like this show. it's not exciting, but it's interesting. the more you learn about the collective, the creepier it gets. there is someone out there that is going to ask for a nuke and get it.
I thought Ep3 was boring and had little purpose. My assumption is things will ramp up soon because Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn seem extremely confident about the show.
I felt it was necessary.....I also want the episodes to be close to 50 minutes...... Spoiler They have to establish why those hiveminds are so keen to please her and assimilate her...... The most glaring part is that Rhea is on her own, they don't have (other than cameos) any side characters, Breaking Bad had like 20-30 side characters, so enriched with it, that it was crazy. To clarify, characters that can think individually and make individual decisions. Also I wondered if that format is better equipped for a mini-series than a long series. Given those few side quests...... But I guess that is just to show you that her character is so special in this.
yall acting like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul weren't boring shows at first. Better Call Saul was brutally slow for a long time. Vince G's calling card is boring slow burn shows. Pluribus is def more entertaining than Saul was at the it's beginning.
Breaking Bad was 'boring at first'? Thats absurd. The issue is in this show, almost no characters have been established after 3 episodes. The pod people arent interesting characters, nor were the other humans who dont care their loved ones have been replaced. The main character cant control her emotions (like a child) and just sits at home drinking and watching tv. Watching the main character berate pod people over and over is boring.
This show is still a perfect 100 on Rotten Tomatoes after 97 reviews. Do critics get access to watch the entire season before making a review? If so, I guess this is greatest program in human history.
I'm not bored by the show so far, but I will agree that they quickly need to move on to something other than Carol moping and getting upset at dealing with the situation. And I agree that they really need to dive more into why the hive mind is so intent on bringing Carol (and the other immune) into the fold. I get that she can kill millions of them but pitching a hissy fit, but it would be really easy for them to just stay away from her (which is what she WANTS) to prevent this. So it feels like there needs to be more to their motivation, but I can't think what. Ultimately it would be really easy for them to back off, wait for her to die and then they have what they want, a world full of only hive mind humans. I'm fully onboard and they've made the show very intriguing so far, but it needs to start delivering on that intrigue soon.
This is why professional critics in general suck. They’re biased and trend following. Give me the audience score.
At this point a critic may give a bad score to be the outlier for some publicity. Audience score is 80 but audiences have just seen a few episodes.
