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What is it with people?

Why do people choose comforting fantasy over real literature? BOOK SIGNING CLIP

Why is the lowest common denominator so very low? TAXI CLIP

Why don’t people think for themselves? CLIP

Why are people just so f*cking dumb??!

This churning, pulsating mass of mediocrity. The mob. The collective. This is what humanity looks like to the rugged individualist.

Or to an American.

Vince Gilligan’s shows do what they say on the tin. Literally.

Breaking Bad follows Walter White on his journey from a good but weak man, to becoming his bad-ass self…destroying everyone he loves along the way.

Better Call Saul is the story of Jimmy McGill desperately trying to be better than he is, even when we know he’s on the path to becoming Saul Goodman.

And while the X-Files isn’t Gilligan’s creation, it might be where he developed his obsession. Vince Gilligan loves characters whose certainty is their doom.

Characters driven by their self-belief to self-destruction.

Keep that in mind while watching Pluribus.

Styled “Plur1bus” when written.

From the many, the one.