It already feels like the wait for season two of Pluribus is going to be long and agonizing—not unlike the wait between seasons for another one of Apple TV’s sci-fi hits, Severance. But Emmy-nominated Pluribus star Rhea Seehorn is already thinking ahead to what’s next for Carol, one of very few humans still resistant to the alien virus that’s absorbed most of the world’s population into a single consciousness.
In the season one finale, we saw Carol make good on her flippant threat to force the hive mind to give her an atomic bomb. But what’s she going to do with it, now that it’s sitting in a box in her Albuquerque cul-de-sac?
That’s a question for Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan, of course. But Seehorn is naturally very curious, as she told Deadline in a new interview.
“I don’t know what she’s going to do with the bomb. I really don’t. And the good news was, playing Carol, I didn’t need to know because I actually think she made a rash decision. We’ll see, I’ll get episode one [of season two] and I’ll be a big fat liar and I’ll find out that apparently, I had a whole plan and wrote it all out on a whiteboard, I don’t know,” she said. “But I thought in the moment, that Carol is very rash. We’ve seen it. She’s extremely impulsive and rash, and her trying to calm that part of her down didn’t result in anything good. It just resulted in having a fake relationship with somebody that stole my eggs. So, I think she’s so angry and importantly, terrified in that moment that this clock is ticking again, that she asked for the biggest threat that she can think of, but I don’t think she’s really figured out what to do with it. That’s my thought.”
Carol’s eggs were harvested long before “the Joining” for entirely normal reasons: one day, she and her wife might want to have a baby. But the hive mind got ahold of them and, as Carol learns from Zosia—the hive mind member with whom she forms an ill-fated romantic connection—is planning to use them to make her convert to their cause.
“I don’t think I could just demand the eggs back, and I did ask about that, because their imperative is to infect—the coarse way to say it,” Seehorn said.
“But also, Vince sometimes would talk about it. It’s like parental love. He would say, ‘Manipulating your child into wearing a coat to go outside. Is that manipulation or is that love, if you know it’s what’s best for them, to get them to eat vegetables or whatever?’ And it’s that built into their system that for the others, this is an act of love. And so, if loving people is the greatest thing, then you can’t stop doing that. So, if [Zosia] thinks stealing my eggs can eventually get my DNA to change me, then she’s never going to stop.”
We’ll find out what happens with the bomb and Carol’s eggs when Pluribus season two arrives on Apple TV—eventually.
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