What is Pluribus about?
The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
The world's most miserable person must save humanity from happiness, a darkly comic and surreal task.
Bleak and intimate, with dark satire. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Apple TV+.
Pluribus parents guide
What we could confirm fits a TV-MA: no real violence and some strong language.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- Not rated yet
- We were not sure enough to call this one.
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Not rated yet
- We were not sure enough to call this one.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Created byVince Gilligan
StarringRhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, Carlos-Manuel Vesga
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