The Incomparable, number 801, January 2026.

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

This episode is about a recently concluded season of an Apple TV series.

It is Vince Gilligan's return to television after Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. This one

is more in the vein a little bit of the X-Files where he used to work. It is Pluribus from Apple TV

starring Ray Seahorn as novelist Carol Sturka, who is the worst and yet only choice to save the world.

I am joined by this collective, if you will.

Well, that would be bad for podcasting.

A group of people, Tony Sindler, hello.

Hi, I don't have a quote.

Just imagine me comically wrapped around a telephone pole.

That's great.

Or you're setting a classic car on fire. Whatever. Glenn Fleischman is here. Hello. We have always been a colonial organism as you know. I do. Eric Anzine also joins us. Hello. Hello. I may not be drinking writer's tears, but I am drinking an Irish whiskey. All right.

So it's close enough. Close enough. And Moises Chouillon is also here. Hello. Hello, Jason. This is a recording. At the tone, you can leave a message to request anything you might need. We're going to hear this so many times. We'll do our best to provide it. Our feelings for you haven't changed, Jason. but after everything that's happened,

we just need a little space.

Need a little space need a little space at no point to be press pound to continue you just got to hear the whole thing yeah that's a good bit that follows the the comedy rule where you something's funny and then you repeat it enough and it's not funny anymore and you just keep repeating it until it's funny again yep yep um so before

i i like to do this when we were talking about the first season of a tv show before we get into

the details i would like to talk on a very high level. It's hot. I mean, look, if you go in cold,

um, you are going to get the premise of the show in a very short amount of time. I don't know

if we're capable of talking about the show without at all cracking the premise. So I have a thought on how.

Okay.

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