Pluribus (2025)

Pluribus
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It is so weird that fans are declaring Apple TV’s latest Pluribus (stylized as PLUR1BUS) as the greatest show ever, despite having only seen the first couple of episodes.

I will confess, I eagerly awaited every Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul episodes when they originally aired. I love both shows, particularly Saul as on the surface it’s a crime-drama about a lawyer. I also felt that the ending of Saul wasn’t that good, especially because they had to time-jump to the Breaking Bad timeline, and it just felt rushed (especially because leading up to the final season they were just taking their sweet, sweet time).

Pluribus is a very different show from that Breaking Bad universe. First of all, it’s about an alien invasion (sort of). To get an idea what the show is about, watch the first five minutes of the show, courtesy of Apple TV. You see how the invasion began.

The story is about how the earth was taken over by a uniform entity. All except for 12 people. Our story follows one of the 12 uninfected people, a romance writer named Carol (played by Kim Wexler, I mean Rhea Seehorn). While the entity tries to figure out why Carol can’t join them, they want to serve and make her happy and tend to her every needs.

At her request, she meets some of those uninfected people to hopefully reverse this invasion. Unfortunately, it seems like she’s alone in her crusade, as the others all love and accept this new world. Particularly Casanova McBoner, who is using his newfound kingspower to rape and take whatever he wants and needs. It’s pretty disgusting, but it’s played for laughs.

If you’ve seen Vince Gilligan’s previous shows, you know his shows have the smartest written stories, and they have an ending and how to get there. Even though I said Saul felt rushed, it was because they had to get to that point in the timeline, but they have it mapped out. I like when a writing team knows the ending, unlike, say Lost, where they had no idea how it would end and were just making things up as they went along. With Pluribus, I know Gilligan has a vision and I know he has a solid answer and ending. We know that Apple TV bought two seasons… so I am hoping Pluribus has a good, satisfying ending.

I have some theories about Pluribus and why it’s happening and how it will end. The obvious why: this virus took over another planet and it needs to spread to other planets and that’s how it ended up on earth – with the same goal of infecting everyone. I think it will build some giant transmitter and then send itself to another planet or something. How I think the show will go is that Kim Wexler will slowly infect her individualism to one of the infected… causing them to recover. Maybe through her saliva or affection/kiss, but she is the answer to unwinding this infection. Anyway, that’s just some thoughts I had on the show. As you know, Gilligan is probably way smarter than me and will come up with a much better solution than what I had in mind.

Very much looking forward to seeing how the show plays out.

Invasion (Season 3) (2025)

Invasion (Season 3)
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This American Sci-Fi show Invasion, created by Simon Kinberg and David Weil, aired on Apple TV+ in 2021. The third season recently premiered on August 22, 2025 and ended on a busy October 24, 2025.

Let me just get this out of the way, Invasion is not good. It is like a dumb space invasion show, but really is all about the emotional humans. People are always yelling or angry or crying or expressive or just over-acting, paired with bad dialogue that I’m suffering and fast-forwarding through scenes because I just don’t give a care about the human story.

For those who haven’t kept up, the first season is an incomplete prologue. The second season is the fallout of the alien takeover. And I hope this is the last season, but the third season is a new threat emerges after earth experienced peace for two years.

This show feels like a CW show. Season 3 sees the return of Trevante Cole. That whole first episode of season 3 is just a slow reintroduction of Cole. I feel like 50% of that first episode could have been cut to incorporate the return of Caspar. Both of them were killed off last season, so bringing them seems far-fetched to me. It wasn’t like I was rooting for them to come back, I wish their story would have just ended last season. Maybe we can have new characters for Season 3? Nope. Anyway, I didn’t bother to finish the reason of Season 3, I just hope it has a good ending.

If you like Invasion, or maybe if you want to check out Sci-Fi shows with the alien invasion theme, you might also want to check out the over-ambitious Falling Skies, the low-budget Colony, the excellent The Eternaut, the teenage Roswell, the classic V, the average Defiance, and, of course the recent Pluribus.