New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- Do individuals matter more than the collective? Is a world where every human contentedly works towards common goals better than one in which selfish motives constantly clash? Is human creativity, born of individual expression, worth the price we pay for it in violence? These are some of the questions Pluribus, the new Apple TV+ drama by Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, asks without undue subtlety. We are just five episodes in, but they are not the subtext of the show-they are the show.

Spoilers follow, if you care about such things and have not tuned into any of the discourse around the series. In Pluribus, an alien virus takes over humanity and turns people into zombies-only, these are t...