Warning! This submit comprises spoilers for the primary two episodes of Apple TV’s Pluribus! You might be doing yourselves a disservice in case you learn extra with out watching. Go watch an amazing present after which come again right here for extra.

Apple TV didn’t reveal a lot within the lead-up to the premiere of Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus. One of many trailers did trace that one thing… not nice would occur to the world, particularly from the standpoint of Carol, performed by Rhea Seehorn.

And very like Carol, you is perhaps asking what she asks on the finish of the trailer linked above: What the fuck is happening?

The speak Carol has with the Secretary of Agriculture (or no matter) on C-SPAN on the finish of the primary episode explains quite a bit (and in addition evokes the same scene from Jurassic Park), however there are possible quite a lot of moments you should still be questioning about. Right here’s our tackle some questions you’ll have after watching episode one.

So, what the fuck occurred to everybody?

As C-SPAN man defined, the lab researchers fabricated the RNA sequence that was being transmitted in house. They contaminated rats with the sequence, a rat bit an individual, after which the doughnut-licking ensued. The virus (or no matter) didn’t simply take management of an individual — it erased an individual’s sense of individuality and related each member of humanity right into a hive thoughts that wishes all residing issues, together with Carol, to be glad. That hive thoughts additionally homes each particular person’s reminiscences, abilities, and expertise, that means, for instance, {that a} TGI Friday’s server can fly a airplane, no downside. It’s additionally why all of them knew Carol’s identify proper after the turning.

How did everybody immediately flip so shortly?

Keep in mind these contaminated licking all these swabs for these petri dishes? And bear in mind these planes flying overhead in a row as Carol and Helen talked outdoors the bar? These planes had been crop-dusting humanity — apparently it doesn’t take a lot alien virus to show somebody — leaving Carol as the one uninfected within the U.S.

How did Helen die?

Helen, Carol’s associate, was contaminated like everybody else. It’s clear although that many individuals didn’t survive the transition — in case you had been on the freeway, for instance, while you obtained crop-dusted, odds are good that you just’d died when your automotive crashed. Helen fell down and smacked her head fairly exhausting on the pavement when she was turning, so the top trauma possible triggered her loss of life (although maybe some individuals simply don’t survive the an infection, full cease).

What’s Carol gonna do now?

We’ll have to look at and see! One factor that’s clear is that she’s removed from secure: the contaminated need her to hitch them, in any case. All they need is for Carol to be glad! “Come be part of us, Carol!” they assume. “Why wouldn’t you wish to be part of us? We’re residing the dream!” Within the meantime, nevertheless, they’ll do something and every thing they will to make Carol glad. How that performs out, I’d enterprise to say, can be a significant consideration of the season.