Watch the trailer for Pluribus, a thrilling sci-fi drama from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. Starring Rhea Seehorn, streaming on Apple TV+from Nov, 2025.
Apple TV+ has posted the trailer for PLURIBUS, the much anticipated new series from the Emmy Award-winning creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Vince Gilligan. The nine-episode sci-fi drama, which is Gilligan’s first big project outside of the Breaking Bad universe in 17 years, will debut on November 7, 2025, and is already causing a stir within the US entertainment industry.
The two-minute official trailer, debuting October 21, 2025, gives a peek at an incredibly disturbing world revolving around Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), who’s “the most miserable person on Earth” and has to “save the world from happiness.” The trailer shows that Carol is the only who appears to be immune to the virus, which has turned the entire global population into perpetually content, optimistic and unnervingly cheerful individuals.
The trailer shows the environment around Carol is unrealistic, everyone is enjoying an ultra level of joy and helpfulness that covers the entire horrible psychology under the wrap of positivity. US President (Peter Bergman) reaches out to Carol through television to turn her into one of them because she is the only one who wasn’t affected by the virus.
As Deadline reports, the series is full of action with explosions, plane crashes, dead bodies, and chaos of marching hordes. The most captivating scene occurs in the 2 minute trailer — Carol asked for a grenade, bazooka, and tank from one of the DHL workers and he said “Oh, sure”.
Carol is alone in her misery and trying to reverse all of this but her head is full of confusing thoughts. It’s the kind of thing that messes with your head but keeps you hooked with its dark humor and sci-fi suspense.
Bob Odenkirk is Gilligan’s trusted partner in crime, and the one who plays the great Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Screenrant mentioned Odenkirk told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview: “I don’t know a goddamn thing. But I know it’s going to be massive. Giant! It’s going to be the biggest thing, well, since sliced bread, but really since Game of Thrones.”
Odenkirk also compared PLURIBUS to the Apple TV+ prestige hit Severance, saying, “I think that [PLURIBUS] is going to be the next big show, and I can’t wait”.His excitement is especially interesting as he is not involved with the project at all, which implies honest belief in Gilligan’s vision.
IndieWire also raved on Gilligan’s turn to Twilight Zone – and it asks if happiness is “actually a good thing when it’s universal and unquestioned. The series delves into themes of coerced conformity, the worth of genuine feeling and if the uniform happiness removes the need for humanity.
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Critics have praised the trailer as it delivers fascinating, strange sequences in the series. It shows the level of Gilligan’s signature cinematography once again after Breaking Bad.
Gilligan revealed the conceptual origins of PLURIBUS with Entertainment Weekly, Gilligan said the concept initially confused him: “I’m still not exactly sure what it means.” But the relevance of the concept to the divided society we live in today was obvious to him: “There’s no question that we live in a very divided nation. What I love about this series and that potential is the hope that people watching may say, ‘What would that be like, if we all got along?’ There’s probably an element of wish fulfillment in that idea.”
Apple TV+ had already ordered two seasons prior to premiere—a rare move demonstrating extraordinary confidence in Gilligan’s vision. The early renewal can be taken as a sign that Apple sees PLURIBUS as a potential flagship show in the vein of Ted Lasso and Severance.
“When you smile the whole world smiles with you— and Rhea Seehorn is finding out the reverse is also true.” This inversion of optimism into terror marks PLURIBUS as perhaps Gilligan’s most philosophically daring episode to date, posing the question of whether a reality devoid of suffering, strife and genuine feeling is one that deserves salvation—or if, through Carol, misery makes her the last real human being on the planet.
This series will air on 7 November, 2025 on Apple TV with a total of nine episodes in one season. Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, and Carlos Manuel Vesga are lead actors in the series who take this one on the top of the list.
Lyonel Baratheon & Tyrion Lannister tienen muchos rasgos, corazón y humor en común demostrando que en Westeros se repite mucho sus más carismáticos personajes.
Ser Lyonel Baratheon (The Laughing Storm) and Tyrion Lannister (The Imp). Though separated by a hundred years and described as having wildly different physical builds, one a seven-foot giant, the other a dwarfed outcast—the Collider claims they amount to the same story character.
Both men have “performance” as a defense: Lyonel cackles maniacally in battle to rattle his foes, and Tyrion wittily mocks himself in advance. They’re defined by their “soft spot for cripples, bastards, and broken things,” and they serve as mentors to the series’ underdogs (Dunk and Jon Snow). In the end, it shows how both were molded by absent parents to rebel against the status quo — not because they wanted power, but respect.
Westeros is generally quite a crap place to have a conversation. So there are the Starks, all gloomily honourable, the Lannisters, all ruthlessly cold, and the Targaryens, well, you know. But once in a while, George R.R. Martin does hand us someone who opts to look at the world and thinks if it’s going to be a dumpster fire I might as well bring the marshmallows.
Among the Dunk and Egg tales, it is Lyonel Baratheon. In Gal of Thrones, that would be Tyrion Lannister. They seem, on the face of it, to be nothing alike. Lyonel is a hulking, golden-armored giant who could probably bench a horse, Tyrion is a man whose greatest weapon is a library card. But once you strip away the layers, they’re basically the same coin.
WinterIsComing discuss their ”vices.” Lyonel and Tyrion are introduced as men who enjoy a good drink, a loud party, and not taking the “seriousness” of high-born life too seriously. But this is nothing new for happy hour fans. It’s psychological warfare.
Lyonel—for laughs because he literally laughs in the faces of those trying to kill him, making him The Laughing Storm. Imagine jousting a guy, hitting him with a wooden pole at 30 miles per hour, and he just starts giggling. It is frightening. It projects invulnerability.
Tyrion does the exact same thing with his tongue. The man’s an outcast, and so he masquerades as the “capering fool,” raffling away the power to mock him. If you’ve already dubbed yourself a “drunken little imp,” what’s an insult from Cersei going to do? For both men: comedy is the armor they put on so the world can’t get under their skin.
The best part about these two isn’t just the jokes—it’s their hearts. In a world where lords are expected to treat commoners like literal dirt, Lyonel and Tyrion emerge as “modernist nobles.” They don’t give a damn about your family tree, they want to know who you are.
Both are positioned as a “fulcrum of balance” in the narrative. They serve as a reminder that even in a savage system of feudalism, there are those who value justice and human connection more than they do ancestral legitimacy.
Don’t be deceived by the laughter. These guys get offended, they burn the house down.
Lyonel had been a staunch loyalist to the Crown until the Prince reneged on a marriage pact with his daughter. To Lyonel, that was no mere scheduling conflict – it was a snub to the honor of House Baratheon. He immediately proclaimed himself “Storm King” and raised the sword.
Sound familiar? Throughout his life, Tyrion had tried to be a “loyal” Lannister, but a life of being viewed as a curse by his father eventually forced him to pick up a crossbow and flee to a ship heading to Daenerys Targaryen. Both men take up arms against the crown not because they desire it, but because they are sick and tired of being overlooked and underappreciated.
For the Baratheon devotees, Lyonel is the “Golden Age” Robert Baratheon. He’s what Robert would have been if he’d never been made to sit upon that uncomfortable iron throne. He’s blunt, he’s loud, and he’s “confused when he is not at war.”
But Lyonel had a covering of empathy that Robert ultimately lost. By wedding a Targaryen princess to his family line to end his rebellion, Lyonel actually granted the “blood claim” that Robert would subsequently use to ascend the throne. Even in his defiance, Lyonel was shaping the future of the Seven Kingdoms.
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In the end, characters like Lyonel and Tyrion are really important because they allow us to see the “human” in a show that’s so often about dragons and ice zombies. They teach us that the most lethal weapon in Westeros isn’t a Valyrian steel sword—it’s the capacity to stare down a bleak, authoritarian regime and chuckle at its absurdity.
Striking Lyonel hurls a rival’s helm into a thumping audience, and Tyrion uses his superior intellect to best his sister on the Small Council — such “friendly” outliers keep reminding us that as an outsider, you get a vantage point the “great lords” will never have. They are the heart of the story, even if the story does its damnedest to shatter them.
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Martin Gero and Amazon MGM bring a new Stargate series to Prime Video with a new cast, updated sci-fi narrative style and an upbeat tone. Learn more visit !
After more than a decade of quiet following the cancellation of Stargate Universe, Martin Gero and Amazon MGM Studios has given the go-ahead to a new series, that starts a buzz around — Stargate is back. But this isn’t simply another content drop for Prime Video, it’s a calculated, strategic play to fill the void left by The Expanse.
Franchise veteran Martin Gero is showrunner, and Amazon isn’t rebooting a show — they’re resurrecting a titan of sci-fi equity.
“Stargate is a staple in my TV experience, it feels like it’s a part of who I am.”
—Gero said.
The problematic casting has ignited a debate following the announcement. So let’s fire up the DHD and take a look at the business decisions behind this, the cast changes and what the ‘special quality’ is with the new Stargate.
The most agonizing question for the hardcore fans becomes: Why replace the legends? They can just recast the original legends including Richard Dean Anderson (O’Neill), Amanda Tapping (Carter), or Christopher Judge (Teal’c) of Stargate series in the reboot?
Choosing to introduce a new cast is not erasure, it is a natural consequence of biological reality and storytelling imperative.
The time gap is huge so lead actors age, particularly Richard Dean Anderson is now entering the era of 70s. The typical modern streaming blockbuster production schedule includes 14-hour shooting days, heavy prosthetics and intense stunt work. And while the original cast may be beloved, asking them to lead a kinetic, action-heavy military sci-fi series in 2025 is physically untenable.
“Stargate was an amazing experience that shaped my career and taught me so much about story-telling, working together and the enchantment of making science fiction real.”
—Gero said
As TVline mentioned, In narrative terms the original SG-1 (Stargate) team was too powerful. By the end the franchise had Earth plenty of Asgard plasma beams, Ancient databases, time travel tech. drama is not compelling unless there’s vulnerability. To create drama that’s compelling you need vulnerability.
The writers need a ‘reset’—a younger, less experienced team that could actually be threatened by the galaxy’s danger and recapture the underdog tension that made early SG-1 so great.
They aren’t just looking for good actors but they were hunting for a specific vibe that has gone missing in modern sci-fi: Optimism.
Martin Gero and the Amazon brass are reportedly attempting to reimagine what we call “Competence Fantasy.” In the age of series such as Star Trek: Discovery or The Expanse (latter seasons), which ended up emphasizing trauma, bickering, and dystopian grit.
The new players were able to move seamlessly between high stakes and levity. They wanted that “glint in the eye” — to borrow literary mechanics from O’Neill — the ability to make a joke while facing down an alien armada. The reason the new cast was chosen was not because they are “tough soldiers” but rather, they have an infectious, immediate chemistry.
The studio is looking for a team that actually likes each other, even in the face of adversity – a “warm bath” viewing experience where you want to hang out with the characters, not just watch them suffer.
The lead was said to be offered to Regé-Jean Page (Bridgerton) but nothing has been confirmed as claims were made that he and Zoë Kravitz had been cast. While the actual resource indicates Page is under contract to star in a Netflix thriller, that is not what the rumor speaks to.
Amazon is on the hunt for a lead who is a combination of physicality and intelligence and who can talk their way out of conflicts rather than fighting, a “Modern O’Neill,” and who is an icon that holds Gen Z and Millennial audiences around the world.
There is also the “Vancouver Factor.” With the production returning to British Columbia there are rumors flying about Jensen Ackles (The Boys, Supernatural). Ackles makes perfect sense in the Amazon world and he represents that rugged, dry deadpan military humor that the franchise is.
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In the end, this resurgence is a “Leg Up” play. Bringing TV veteran Martin Gero and original film creator Roland Emmerich together as Executive Producers, Amazon is now bridging the 30-year divide between the movie and the show.
The new cast aren’t looking to rewrite the past; they’re securing the future. They are being asked to keep the torch burning so the Stargate stays open for another 10 years. This “special quality” is more than just acting talent — it’s the charisma needed to invite a global audience through the Gate room, and it shows that while the faces might change, the spirit of exploration never does.
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