Season 1 Episode 7: The Gap
Air Date: December 12, 2025
Synopsis: Manousos begins a dangerous trek to meet Carol. Returning home from Las Vegas, Carol gets creative with her rebellion.
Directed by: Adam Bernstein
Written by: Jenn Carroll
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Nothing on this planet is truly yours. You cannot give me anything because all that you have was stolen.
That song playing during Manousos’s journey is “Esperanza” by Hermanos Gutiérrez
I haven’t watched it yet, but at the end of the last episode, when he jumped in the car planning to drive to North America, I wondered how they’re going to deal with the Darien Gap. I’m guessing from the title, it’s going to be a pretty important part of the journey!
Ok, creators of this show really like to torture us: THE SAME PLURBIN VOICEMAIL THREE TIMES IN A ROW!
I don’t find obvious product placement to be an issue there, it adds realism. It’s the same case as in Like a Dragon video game series.
Manousos has amazing mental fortitude, but he’s still just a human and not truly independent. Maybe his rescue will make him change his mind a bit. He may sway Carol to return to her rebellious streak, as she has currently given up.
I haven’t seen anyone point out the political symbolism here too. I don’t think it’s a stretch considering Carol’s statements earlier.
This episode shows an American, formerly considering herself the leader of the free world, in a hedonistic death spiral. Meanwhile, a South American pursues his dream to save the world, encouraged by the history of said American, by taking the absolute hardest path. The South American takes it upon himself to learn another language while undertaking his perilous journey, ready to assimilate to the culture.
The entity is absolutely, deliberately manipulating Carol through social isolation. The collective knows what social isolation does to people; there’s a million or so therapists it can draw that info from. There are also many ways to perhaps combat it that they could be offering to Carol, but they aren’t doing that. The entity has its own agenda, likely a set of Asimov-esque rules of robotics, serving a primary goal of propagation (with most of the human race out building satellites and radio antennas powered by solar to blast the signal further).
Traveling logistics. For the entity to be able to deliver items to Carol while she is on the road so quickly, I imagine there’s a fleet of cargo trucks following her around, just a few miles behind her (beyond her view), with delivery drones ready to fetch and deliver whatever she asks for.
You think this show is slow? There is a big difference between a series that is paced with deliberation to cultivate a tone and establish character motivation… and a series that is just insufferably drawn out. I remember Serial Experiments Lain. Pluribus is fine.
Pluribus isn’t manipulating Carol…not in the way a human would manipulate another human. They didn’t intentionally isolate Carol…you know this. Carol repeatedly hurt them.
We now know that Pluribus doesn’t wish to “propagate”. Pluribus will starve to death and isn’t reproducing. You’re just making up that Pluribus is building satellite dishes? I admit that would be an interesting future plot point…but there’s no evidence for it.
Don’t be confused by the editing…the show isn’t presented in real time. It takes as long as it’s reasonable for Pluribus to deliver items to Carol.
Sure would be nice to have an episode with some action or story.
These super long no talking cuts are really annoying. I found myself fast forwarding through most of this episode.
I found it quite the opposite of annoying. This episode had some beautiful cinematography showing the south america trek to the point I was questioning if this entire thing was funded by tourism boards. Maybe not the most exciting to watch but I’ve mostly come to expect as much.
I was “disappointed” with the lack of development in what we know about the others, but the episode was very good. I am not sure how to say that without sounding judgmental but if you feel the need to fast forward scenes without talking you’re probably unaware that in a visual medium images tell part of the story. Possibly not an accessible series (I hope there are audio tracks for visually impaired folks) but flushing half of it down the toilet says more about what dopamine-factory-media did to our brains in the past few years than it says about pluribus itself.
Or it was just boring.
This episode feels like dragged down, I get it’s done for character development but still feel like it could be done shorter.
One thing I really hated is that sometimes when someone speaks Spanish it does in a broken way, bad accent, even getting words wrong, one would think the hive would speak with the accent that makes the most sense to the person they are taking to.
