Pluribus (season 1)

The first season of Pluribus unfolds in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Carol Sturka, a successful but disillusioned writer of historical romances, wakes up to a world eerily transformed by a mysterious virus. This pandemic does not bring chaos or suffering; instead, it infects humanity with perfect contentment and unwavering optimism, leaving Carol as the singular person untouched by its effects. As she navigates this cheerful and unsettling new reality, Carol discovers that happiness in this world is not merely an accident, but something deliberately engineered. Faced with a society free from conflict and self-doubt, Carol must contend with her own sorrow and the unsettling realization that misery may be the only antidote to a manufactured joy. The show tracks her quest to understand what happened to humanity and confront the vast consequences of being emotionally out of sync with everyone around her, all while the world seems determined to remain blissfully unaware of anything amiss.