Pluribus

I watched the first episode last night. I will at least watch one more. 

I don't want to give it away, just to say it's about a virus that zombifies the world's population for a while and then has its permanent effect on all humans because victims make sure they infect everyone by licking kissing, breathing, etc.. All humans except a dozen who don't know each other. The protagonist is one of the immune ones. She's a negative, pessimistic person, now one of twelve in a world with a hive mind of . . . 

it's hard to tell what after one episode. Reviews say happiness, but it's a shallow happiness so far. 

I enjoyed it because the pessimist is a best-selling author who knows her books, a series, have become crap, but she makes a lot of money at them. 

I also wondered if it is a parody of cult members (evangelicals, Mormons). 

Or if, even deeper, it's a desire for something closer to that hive mind. 

It's well produced to give creepy thrills, and I like those, as long as there is little blood shown.

Unlike American Gods, which didn't hook me in and starts with an incredible amount of blood. No thanks.   

Addendum: I couldn't help thinking of Pluribus this morning when I read Romans 15:5-6:

5 Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, 6 that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Verse 6 is an already but not yet clause. We can glorify God with one mind and one mouth, metaphorically. We will do it in eternity. To an American Christian and to a non-believer, this sounds . . . less than inviting.  We don't want a "hive mind." That is not the concept here. It is about sinlessness and Christ-likeness, not a zombified unity. It might be a good idea to think of how that would be more, rather than seeing eternity as a place that is still all about me/us.