Pluribus recap, Episode 5: 'Got Milk'
Carol gets to spend some time by herself to think about what she's done
A review of this week's Pluribus, "Got Milk" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as you send a drone for my garbage...
Alan Sepinwall
Pluribus films in the same city as Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Its lead performer was a member of the Saul cast, and much of the crew — including this week's writer, Ariel Levine, and its director, Gordon Smith — are people who worked with Vince Gilligan on one or both series(*). To that group, "Got Milk" adds another Heisenberg-verse alum, as Howard Hamlin himself, Patrick Fabian, provides the voice of the recording Carol hears every time she calls the Others for help with something.
(*) Though Smith often directs his own scripts these days (including this season's third episode), this is an interesting writer/director pairing, because Smith and Levine rose through the ranks in the same way: he was a writers assistant on Breaking Bad, and she had that job on Better Call Saul. Have I mentioned recently that I've written a book about each of those shows?
It's an amusing Easter Egg, doubly so because the recording — where Fabian explains that the Others' feelings for Carol haven't changed, but they need a little space after all that she's done — is the same length each time, even though it's unnecessary after the first. (You would think that the collective knowledge of humanity would recognize how useless outgoing voicemail messages are.) But it's worth mentioning up top because Fabian's voice is, for most of "Got Milk," the only one we hear besides Rhea Seehorn's.
