Rhea Seehorn in "Pluribus". Apple TV+ According to the series' logline, Pluribus is about "the most miserable person on Earth [who] must save the world from happiness." That "miserable person" is Carol Sturka (Seehorn), a romance author who tries to save the world after an extraterrestrial signal creates a virus that turns all of humanity into beings who are genial but creepy. "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," Gilligan told TV Insider. "But perhaps it’s not as bad as she thinks. We leave that to the audience: Is this dystopic or utopic?" Why is the series called Pluribus? Karolina Wydra in "Pluribus". Apple TV+ The title Pluribus is associated with “E Pluribus Unum," ("out of many, one"), which gains new meaning in the Apple TV series. The name of the show is also stylized as Plur1bus , with the number "one" in the actual title. In Pluribus, everyone on Earth has been transformed into an interconnected, happy hive mind ("out of many, one") thanks to an unknown extraterrestrial signal from space, which turns into a virus that infects everyone, save for a few. Carol is suspicious of the human race's collective new attitude, and sets out trying to figure out how to revert the world back to its old self, faults and all. "I got interested in the idea of a world in which everyone was nice,” Gilligan told Entertainment Weekly. "There was no way you could insult them. There was no way you could hurt their feelings. But they would do anything and everything for you." "What interests me about this show and the possibilities for it," he continued. "Is that people, I hope, can watch it and say, 'What would the world be like if everybody got along?' There’s probably a bit of wish fulfillment in the idea of this show." Gilligan said Carol becomes a "reluctant hero," who "doesn't really want to be tasked with saving the world, but she more or less feels like it's her duty." What else has creator Vince Gilligan said about the title of Pluribus? Rhea Seehorn and Vince Gilligan at "Pluribus" premiere. Monica Schipper/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Thinking of a title for Pluribus wasn't easy for creator Gilligan and the series' writers. "This was the single hardest thing I've ever created, to title. It took years to come up with this title," he told TechRadar, noting how names for his past TV projects like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul "came easily." Gilligan said he and his writers "had a list of over 100 titles" for the series. He revealed that Pluribus was floated early in the brainstorming process, but the writers kept thinking of alternatives until they circled back to the Latin word "after about two years." "I could not think of a title that really satisfied me," he recalled. "But now that we've lived with it for a while and now that it's out in the world, it, it seems to me like, yeah, 'why was that so hard?' " Close Source: https://people.com/what-does-pluribus-mean-11845876