by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I want to like the new Apple TV show Pluribus. I really do. It’s just…there are some things about it that really fucking bug the shit out of me. There are too many plot holes. And, to date at least, Carol, the protagonist has just been a misanthropic asshole.
She’s a one trick pony. She’s just angry all the time.
It would be so much more interesting if Carol had some nuance to her. I think that might have been solved if her BFF / lover / assistant had not died. Then there would be a face for her the hivemind that she did not want to hurt.
But, here we are.
I totally get what the point of the show is — what if the worst person in the world had to save humanity from being “chill.” And, yet, I don’t know.
Something about the lengths the producers have gone to make Carol unlikeable strike me the wrong way. But, if anything, Carol being such a fucking bitch at least gives her room to grow, I guess. 🙂
