Apple TVPluribus is dropping early this week, so here’s what we know about the upcoming Episode 5.
Pluribus is Vince Gilligan’s first series since Better Call Saul, and stars Rhea Seehorn as author Carol Sturka, who finds herself battling with a virus that has turned the world into a collective mind hive.
The show is hard sci-fi that has fans speculating about what’s really going on, with wild theories concerning the hive mind and connections to Carol filling messageboards, and Gilligan himself promising he won’t pull the rug out from under audiences with an M. Night Shyamalan style twist.
But Pluribus is arriving early this week, so here’s when and where to watch Episode 5….
Pluribus release date & time
Due to the Thanksgiving weekend, Pluribus is dropping two days early this week, at 6pm PT/9pm ET on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, on Apple TV.
This is the typical format the streaming service follows with its original content. If you’re in a different geographical zone, you can calculate the release time accordingly. Here are a few so you know exactly when to tune in:
- 8pm CT
- 11pm Brazil
- 2am UK (November 27)
- 4am CEST
- 7:30am India Standard Time
- 11:30am Australia
- 1pm New Zealand
How many episodes are there?
Apple TVSeason 1 consists of nine episodes in total, but the series won’t end there, as when Apple won the bidding war to make Pluribus, they immediately green-lit two seasons.
Season 1 Episode 1 is titled ‘We is Us’ with a synopsis as follows: “An astronomer’s discovery turns the planet upside down. Carol Sturka, a curmudgeonly novelist, is terrified by this strange new world.”
Season 1 Episode 2 is titled ‘Pirate Lady’ with the synopsis: “A curiously familiar face introduces Carol to the bizarre new normal. A gathering in Europe brings strangers together… and causes friction.”
Episode 3 is titled ‘Grenade‘ with the synopsis: “The world just wants to help – which infuriates Carol. A heart-to-heart conversation ends with a bang.”
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Episode 4 is titled ‘Please, Carol‘ with the synopsis: “Carol tests the boundaries of this weirdly honest world at the expense of her ego. Far away, a resolute individual learns he’s not alone.”
Episode 5 is titled ‘Got Milk‘ with the synopsis: “Carol doubles down on her investigation—loneliness be damned. Meanwhile, howls in the night reveal a new source of danger.”
Pluribus release schedule
Apple TVHere’s when you can expect forthcoming episode, with Season 1 concluding on December 26, 2025.
- Episode 1: November 7
- Episode 2: November 7
- Episode 3: November 14
- Episode 4: November 21
- Episode 5: November 26
- Episode 6: December 5
- Episode 7: December 12
- Episode 8: December 19
- Episode 9: December 26
What is Pluribus about?
Apple TVThe brief synopsis for Pluribus is that “the most miserable woman on earth must save the world from happiness.”
Seehorn plays the woman in question – an author called Carol Sturka – whom everyone on the planet suddenly wants to make happy, with the whole world turning into a placid, peaceful, and kind hive mind.
That story has a deeper meaning connected to what Vince Gilligan is observing in society at present, with the Pluribus creator telling ScreenRant: “Would this be so bad in some sense? Could it not be paradise? And that’s completely up to the viewer to decide for themselves.
“I’m not telling anybody how to parse that. But I’d like to think people could watch this and say to themselves, ‘Maybe there is another way other than what we got going on in America right now.’”
What the viewer takes away from the show will be very much up to them, with Gilligan adding: “TV is just TV – it’s not a cure for cancer, never was, never will be. But I’d love to think that people will watch this show and think to themselves, ‘I don’t necessarily want to live in that world, or maybe I do.’ We work really hard to make this a different kind of apocalypse.”
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