Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is back with a gripping, funny, head-spinner of a show, while Kim Kardashian stars in a blazingly camp drama about divorce lawyers. Plus, the thrilling return of Squid Game: The Challenge
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan returns with a gripping, funny, bleak, bewildering head-spinner of a series. It begins with a mysterious communication from outer space. This turns out to be an earthly glimpse of extraterrestrial technology: a psychic glue, binding humanity together. Great news, right? If you are one of the few people across the world seemingly immune to this zombified bliss, not so much. The superb Rhea Seehorn stars as Carol Sturka, a cranky writer of bad, extremely successful historical romances and, reluctantly, the keeper of the flame of righteous human cynicism. Pluribus establishes and maintains a tone all of its own – dark humour, oddball surrealism and existential horror.
Apple TV, from Friday 7 November
This “dysfunctional rich people” drama follows two rival law firms as they tussle over the divorces of LA’s elite. It’s blazingly camp and deals in the affairs of musclebound jocks, creepy sugar daddies and women whose faces have been Botoxed to sleep. But it also contains an entertaining turn from Sarah Paulson as comically aggressive attorney Carrington Lane, plus a chance to ponder the (limited) acting chops of Kim Kardashian. This is a Ryan Murphy creation and, as such, manifests an all-encompassing emotional blankness. But for better or worse, it feels as if that’s kind of the point.
