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Vince Gilligan has been a fairly coy boy when it comes to\u00a0Pluribus<\/a>, his first TV series since\u00a0Better Call Saul\u00a0wrapped up back in 2022. Over the last two weeks, though, a picture of the sci-fi series\u2014which reunites Gilligan with Saul\u00a0star Rhea Seehorn\u2014has begun to emerge, as Gilligan has ladled out a few character and plot details to hungry interrogators. That includes a basic logline for the series, which its early teasers<\/a> very deliberately didn\u2019t hint at, revealing that it takes place in a world where a virus suddenly makes everyone extremely (one might say suspiciously) optimistic and happy.<\/p>\n The exception is Seehorn\u2019s character, Carol Sturka, a romance novelist who Gilligan described, in a conversation with\u00a0TV Insider<\/a>, as \u201cthe most miserable person in the world who decides she needs to save Earth from happiness.\u201d Gilligan notes that his story, which he\u2019s been kicking around for years, takes influence from\u00a0Invasion Of The Body Snatchers\u00a0and\u00a0The Twilight Zone\u2014including taking Carol\u2019s last name from apocalyptic 1960 classic \u201cThird From The Sun.\u201d<\/a> Gilligan paints the character (who he originally conceived as male, before hitting on the idea of using the series as an opportunity to reunite with Seehorn) as a reluctant hero, saying, \u201cCarol does not want to be tasked with saving the world, but no one else is rising to the occasion. She goes on a quest to the other side of the world trying to save it from a crisis that in her mind is apocalyptic.\u201d<\/p>\n