‘Pluribus’ Season 1 Finale: “La Chica o El Mundo.” Plus, End of the Year Mailbag

The Prestige TV Podcast

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4.2 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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The finale of ‘Pluribus’ has arrived, and so has Manousos to New Mexico! Jo and Rob are here to parse through the ending of Season 1. (0:00) Intro (3:37) Did it feel like a finale? (10:39) Carol’s decisions (20:53) Joining the hivemind (31:53) The use of time (38:51) Final takeaways (48:45) Mailbag questions: first time podding (54:15 ) Most anticipated shows of 2026 (58:56) 'White Lotus' Season 4 dream cast (1:03:50) Top shows of 2025 (1:12:29) Character crossover (1:15:04) Favorite intro sequence (1:19:48) Book-to-TV adaptation wish list (1:25:01) A show’s oral history you’d like to read (1:27:35) What to watch after ‘Lost’ (1:36:30) Favorite donut or water ice flavor Email us! prestigetv@spotify.com or lickingthedonut@gmail.com Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Prestige TV Podcast and so much more! Hosts: Joanna Robinson and Rob Mahoney Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Additional Production Support: Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to the prestige TV podcast feed. I'm'm Joanna Robinson. I'm Rob Mahoney. And we're
0:23.5	here with our last episode of the year, Rob Mahoney. What a journey it's been, Joe. I mean,
0:30.6	how do you feel about things finally coming to an end here for us? For us? That sounds so
0:35.2	conclusive. We will be back next year.
0:37.8	I don't mean to be so ominous about it.
0:39.6	Rob and Joe will return in the Avengers Col and Domsday and also for the Pit.
0:46.0	Yeah, we'll be back.
0:47.0	The pit starts on January 8th, so we will be back.
0:50.2	But that's a long stretch for us to not record together.
0:53.1	So we'll see if we remember who we are when we come back.
0:56.7	But we're dropping this episode.
0:59.4	It is a holiday week, but the content does not stop.
1:02.7	So we were dropping this episode.
1:03.8	We were pre-recording it, as we mentioned, for the pluribus finale.
1:06.6	This is a combination pluribus finale episode and also a sort of end of your mailbag episode.
1:12.9	So you guys sent us a ton of emails to press htcheev at Spotify.com and some of y'all to licking
1:19.5	the donut at gmail.com.
1:21.1	And Rob has sort of assembled a good deal of questions for us to answer after we talk about pleuribus.
1:28.7	I should mention here on the feed, I don't think this is the last episode that's going to
1:31.9	drop on this feed because I believe our coverage of the heated rivalry finale.
1:36.7	Sure.
1:37.7	It's dropping on the 26th.
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