‘Pluribus’s Rhea Seehorn: “I’m Too Thin-Skinned” To Read Online Theories; Season 2 Will Be Back “As Fast As We Can”

Season 2 of Pluribus is coming your way as fast as possible.

In the Vince Gilligan-created Apple TV+ series, Seehorn stars as Carol Sturka, a woman who suddenly finds that everyone around her has been assimilated into a bizarre kind of group-think in a global mind-melding event that takes the life of her wife Helen (Miriam Shor). Isolated and depressed, Carol becomes determined to disrupt this “peaceful” new society.

Seehorn confirmed the team are “back in the writers room” and that Gilligan is keen to get started on Season 2. “I know he wants us to go as soon as possible,” she said. “He’s not playing any kind of game to make people wait for this. But he wants to craft the show with all the care for his fans and the people following this story that he can. So we’ll get back as fast as we can.”

Vince is not trying to make a political statement. He’s actually just trying to say something about being human and what real love is.

Seehorn also said she felt it was important to her “to honor getting the chance to play anybody from the LGBTQ community,” but that she loves that this is not “the remarkable thing” about Carol. “It is part of who she is as a human being, and her relationship with her wife that she’s lost is given so much weight because it is a partnership of love. Vince is not trying to make a political statement. He’s actually just trying to say something about being human and what real love is. And so it makes me very proud that it just happens to be a queer woman.”

Asked about the craziest fan theory she’d read online, Seehorn said, “I’m not reading them, because I’m too thin-skinned to get on these sites and read what people are saying. So I don’t actually know them. It’s been funny listening to people, and then also sometimes it’s been very touching. I had a journalist the other day say that she thought the entire show was a metaphor for grief and depression, and, you know, being down a well that you can’t hear other people saying, ‘Cheer up,’ and you can’t relate to them at all.”

She continued, “[People are] meeting the show where they’re at, whether it’s fear of AI or it’s isolation, or it’s political divisiveness or feeling there’s too much anger in the world. It’s engendering a lot of conversations, and I very much appreciate and hope that Vince continues to foster the conversation rather than preach an answer.”

As for her rejecting the idea of a hive-mind herself, Seehorn did say that some aspects of it would be positive. “I’d love no wars,” she said. “I’d love peace. I told somebody the other day, ‘I think the best version would be if we’re allowed to do week-on, week-off. I’m a step parent, and I’m week-on, week-off with my kids, and so I think if you can week-on, week-off with hive-mind, everybody’s peaceful, everybody’s nice.”