Slop.

Anything that isn't "political" is just going to passively support status quo liberal political values, all art is political, whether we like it or not.

Its definitely political. The show runner has said as much.

"I really wasn't thinking about AI when I came up with Pluribus, partly because I came up with it almost 10 years ago, but if people have that takeaway, more power to them," he laughs.

I think everybody hates that we live in a country that feels like there's two sides, two armed camps. It feels like we're on the edge of civil war some days, and I hate that," he says.

"I don't think anybody wants to live like this. They want to figure out a way to get back to a culture, a civilisation where people can disagree. The world of Pluribus, where everybody agrees, that doesn't sound so good either. "But can we find a place where people disagree but they're cool about it?"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-21/pluribus-vince-gilligan-interview-grand-finale/106123758

"But can we find a place where people disagree but they're cool about it?" Fucking no? Not when the disagreement is about socialism or barbarism.

The show's "villain" is a classic case of making the bad guy too reasonable, and having to tack on some bullshit to sour them to the audience.

A decade ago HRC lost to Trump after usurping Burnie in the primaries. That's the space he wrote this script in. Couple that with his own words above and I'm not sure how this could be anything but political.

People who want to "find a place where people disagree but they're cool about it" only want to do so because back then people suffered in silence. People "disagreed" about the rights of trans people (or queer people, or people of color, or immigrants) but "were cool about it" while those groups suffered. But that wasn't enough, that didn't make the line go up enough, so now people suffer in the fucking daylight and it makes guys like this fucking uncomfortable.

That's what sits at the center of this plot. People starved to death every day before the virus, and would continue to do so every day if it never arrived. Now that some arbitrary rule set by the Stalin Virus is going to kill off everyone in a decade , and they tell you its going to happen, now suddenly the situation is "insane". Say nothing of the massive amounts of death coming down the pipe thanks to climate change! Something the woke mind virus fucking solved.

The show is pure liberalism. The show runner is treading into ideological currents he can't possibly understand let alone swim in. The entire show hinges on the arbitrary limitations created by the writers. Instead of simply creating an interesting utopia that some people are missing out on and using that as the vehicle for the character development.