Items10The creator’s order
  1. 1Severance (2022)Severance (2022) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Feb 2022Office workers have memories divided between work and the rest of life, making a reassuring institutional routine increasingly sinister. It shares Pluribus's question about what a system can take from an individual while claiming to make living easier. Choose it for precise visual design, dry…0
  2. 2Mrs. Davis (2023)Mrs. Davis (2023) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 20 Apr 2023A nun sets out to destroy an artificial intelligence that appears to organise life for everyone's benefit. The connection to Pluribus is unusually close: helpfulness itself can become an argument about dependence and freedom. This eight-part story is much more flamboyantly comic, with a quest…0
  3. 3The Leftovers (2014)The Leftovers (2014) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 29 Jun 2014After a small fraction of humanity vanishes, those remaining search for explanations, rituals and somebody who can make the uncertainty bearable. It offers Pluribus's clash between private grief and collective certainty without the same speculative mechanism. The first season is particularly…0
  4. 4Devs (2020)Devs (2020) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 5 Mar 2020An engineer investigates a secretive technology company's research, where a seemingly orderly account of reality carries consequences for individual choice. Choose it for Pluribus's unease about being absorbed into somebody else's confident explanation. Alex Garland's limited series is slower and…0
  5. 5Counterpart (2017)Counterpart (2017) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 10 Dec 2017An unremarkable office worker discovers that his institution guards a connection to another version of his world. Two performances by J.K. Simmons make identity a lived comparison rather than just a puzzle. The less obvious Pluribus route is bureaucratic secrecy and the fear that another system…0
  6. 6Humans (2015)Humans (2015) 7.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired 14 Jun 2015The 2015 British series places lifelike artificial servants inside homes, where convenience starts to disturb definitions of a person. Its Pluribus connection is the gap between a smooth social arrangement and the autonomy of those expected to sustain it. Family relationships keep the speculation…0
  7. 7BrainDead (2016)BrainDead (2016) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 13 Jun 2016A congressional staffer discovers a grotesquely literal explanation for Washington's worsening behaviour. This one-season American discovery turns the loss of individual judgement into political farce and body horror. Choose it for Pluribus's unnerving social normality with much broader satire; its…0
  8. 8In the Flesh (2013)In the Flesh (2013) 7.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Mar 2013Treated former zombies return to a British village that has already decided what they are. Kieren's effort to remain an individual inside competing community stories provides the Pluribus connection. The smaller, emotionally direct drama is especially interested in shame, identity and belonging,…0
  9. 9The Returned (2012)The Returned (2012) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 26 Nov 2012In the original 2012 French series Les Revenants, dead residents return to an Alpine town without the explanations the living need. Domestic conversations and collective responses make the changed world unsettling before it becomes spectacular. Choose it for Pluribus's intimacy within a transformed…0
  10. 10Parasyte: The Grey (2024)Parasyte: The Grey (2024) 7.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 5 Apr 2024A South Korean woman becomes entangled with a parasitic organism while others struggle to recognise which people remain themselves. The 2024 Korean-language series turns Pluribus's anxiety about individual survival inside another intelligence into much more explicit action and body horror. It is…0