Pluribus is another drama set in the dystopian future. But on this occasion the integrity of the entire human race depends not on someone ordinary and likeable who could almost be you, but on a bolshie, misanthropic middle-aged lesbian called Carol.

Carol (Rhea Seehorn from Better Call Saul) is so grumpy that when in flashback we see her wife Helen treating her to an expensive jaunt to a romantic ice hotel in Scandinavia, she refuses to snuggle beneath the fur bedspread, sip designer vodka and gaze at the Northern Lights above. Instead, all she wants to notice is that sitting on a bed made of blocks of ice makes her want to pee.

But now Helen is gone and Carol is one of only 12 people in the entire world who remain normal. Everyone else has fallen victim to some weird virus from outer space which imprisons humanity in a super nice, cooperative and omniscient hive mind of benign collectivism, a bit like communism if it actually worked. All anyone wants is to make Carol happy. Carol just wants her old world back.

I would say it’s a neat........

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