‘Pluribus’ Episode 3: Negative Nancy at the Ice Hotel
The Prestige TV Podcast
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4.2 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday, you donut liquors. We're back for Pluribus episode three. This is the Prestige TV podcast feed. I'm Jonah Robinson. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Rob Mahoney. |
| 0:22.7 | We're here to talk to you about the episode titled Grenade, written and directed by Gordon |
| 0:28.8 | Smith, who I just want to mention really quickly because I love this about what Vince |
| 0:33.5 | Gilligan does with the folks that have worked with him for years. |
| 0:36.4 | Gordon Smith started as |
| 0:37.5 | as an assistant on Breaking Bad, sort of rose up the ranks, wrote one of the best episodes |
| 0:43.9 | of Better Call Saul chicanery, and is here directing now, writing and directing for Pluribus. And I just |
| 0:50.0 | really love how loyal Vince Gilligan is to his people and how he sort of like loves to teach the people around him and sort of promote them as as they go. So just a shout out to Vince Gilligan is one of the one of the great showrunners that we have. I mean, it fits like the cottage industry thing that he does in turning Albuquerque into a company town. Like the whole operation feels so inclusive in a way that, I mean, |
| 1:11.6 | it's a little warm and fuzzy, Joe, I got to say. Uh, listen, he just wants us all to be happy. |
| 1:16.1 | He does. Truly. And what could possibly go wrong? In this episode grenade, a literal grenade goes off. |
| 1:22.0 | Um, but as we love to sort of overanalyze episode titles, Rob, first of all, I want to know what |
| 1:28.4 | you thought of this episode. |
| 1:29.3 | And secondly, do you have any alternative, what other kinds of grenades might have gone |
| 1:34.7 | off in this episode of television? |
| 1:36.5 | I really like this episode. |
| 1:38.2 | I think we're stepping away from like the big picture existential questions of episode two. |
| 1:42.9 | We're certainly getting some distance from the world altering events of episode one. But you can feel all of these like supposedly |
| 1:49.7 | benevolent means of control that are starting to constrict Carol on her movement and the life |
| 1:55.1 | that she is hoping to live as, you know, one of the last few true humans on Earth. As for other |
| 2:00.0 | grenades, I mean, there's emotional grenades all over this episode. |
| 2:03.0 | Or I guess maybe landmines, maybe Claymore's. |
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