Apple TV has announced that “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan’s “Pluribus” has become the most-watched show in Apple TV history.
The series, which still has two episodes to go of its first season, has beaten the record previously held by the second season of “Severance”.
Apple won the rights to the series back in 2022 when HBO, Amazon, and Netflix all intensely bid for the series.
It did so by committing to both a straight-to-series two-season order, and a substantial budget of $15 million per episode.
This has resulted in one of the most lauded shows of recent years, with a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 87/100 on Metacritic. The title recently joined the AFI’s Top 10 TV Series of the year.
The series follows Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), a cantankerous fantasy romance author in Albuquerque and one of only 13 people in the world immune to the effects of an event in which an extraterrestrial virus transformed the rest of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind that happily accommodates the wishes of those who remain unaffected.
Though not designed to be a commentary on AI, many have made parallels to the eager-to-please ‘hive mind’ as a good analogy for it.
It's official, Carol.#Pluribus — Now Streaming pic.twitter.com/a7h3cfdIoq
— Apple TV (@AppleTV) December 12, 2025
