Fans of “Pluribus” get a holiday treat: no agonizing seven-day wait for the season one finale.
Apple TV typically rolls out fresh episodes midweek or at week’s end, varying by show. “Pluribus” lands in the Friday slot, but the platform has a habit of surprising viewers with early drops — and this marks the second one this season.
Back in November, episode five popped up two days ahead of schedule to align with Thanksgiving and Black Friday festivities. Now, with Christmas approaching, the finale originally slated for December 26th is moving up to December 24th.
That shift has a welcome side effect: you’ll be able to stream it as early as Tuesday evening. Apple TV makes new episodes available at 9 p.m. Eastern Time on the eve of their official date. (“Palm Royale” is the only other original dropping new content next week, and it sticks to its usual Wednesday rhythm.)
The updated date is already reflected in the Apple TV app. Clocking in at 57 minutes, episode nine claims the bronze medal for runtime in the season—trailing the 59-minute premiere and the hour-plus episode two.
This installment wraps up Pluribus’s debut season. Fortunately, renewal anxiety isn’t an issue: Apple greenlit two “Pluribus” seasons upfront in 2022, and the show’s record-breaking viewership as the streamer’s biggest hit to date only seals the deal for more to come.
MacDailyNews Take: Like Severance, Pluribus is for viewers with patience who have the ability to immerse themselves into and enjoy a single thing for 45-minutes to an hour. It’s not a “second screen” series.
“Pluribus” certainly deserves to be the most-watched show in Apple TV history (as do “Severance” and “Silo,” both of which we also highly recommend).
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Yah, Apple employees making this decision probably don’t even know what Christmas Eve is, or that people actually go to church – shocker!
“Hey. Christmas Eve! I mean, Christmas Eve people aren’t doing jack right? Perfect!”
Gee… Go to Church and worship God or watch a TV show character make out and have lesbian sex?
Apple can’t be showing the contrast to us in a more dramatic way. Sodom and Gomorrah or God?
Gilligan has a solid concept here a the question of free will vs a “utopian” society with a large dash of Buddhist ideology in it. Aliens or something else, what’s the grand scheme? And then he throws in nudity and sex – all scenes that do not propel the story whatsoever. But that makes it “edgy” or for mature audiences. Ha! More like more lame sec thrown in over and over for what purpose? Gets old quickly.