22nd October 2025 at 8.18pm People: Vince Gilligan We've got some good news and we've got some bad news for you, folks. The good news is Pluribus , the new Apple TV series from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul mastermind Vince Gilligan, has just dropped its first full trailer — wahoo! The bad news is, said trailer is best enjoyed if — like the show's protagonist Carol (Rhea Seehorn) — you do your darnedest not to be too happy, because in the mysterious Albuquerque of Pluribus, it looks like if you smile then you're prime fodder for being sucked into some sort of Twilight Zone type nationwide conformity trap. Yikes! Check it out below; "Good morning Carol, is there anything we can do to cheer you up?" asks a disconcertingly chipper voice as a decidedly un-chipper Rhea Seehorn's Carol looks on at the start of this first proper trailer for Pluribus. But, as we come to quickly learn, neither private jets nor actual tanks, hand grenades nor swanky dinners, look like they're about to solve Carol's apocalyptically bad mood. Which is, well, seemingly everybody else's problem, actually: the more Carol stays sad, the more the quote-unquote 'utopia' around her starts to crumble. Hell, even POTUS is on the blower before long, very cultishly promising his people will find out what's making Carol glum so that she may "join us". Admittedly, this trailer — with its oddly ominous Righteous Brothers' 'You'll Never Walk Alone' backing track and decidedly X-Files Gilligan vibe — doesn't exactly tell us a lot about Pluribus, which elsewhere co-stars Karolina Wydra, Carlos-Manuel Vesga, Miriam Shor, and Samba Schutte. But what it does do is leave us feeling A) very intrigued about what exactly the show, already renewed for a second season, has in store for us when it makes its Apple TV debut on 7 November, and B) even more excited for our special Empire VIP screening of the series' first two episodes on Wednesday 12 November. (More on that here .) Just so you know, we may receive a commission or other compensation from the links on this website — read why you should trust us Source: https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/pluribus-trailer-everyone-wants-rhea-seehorn-to-be-happy-in-vince-gilligans-apple-tv-sci-fi-series/