Season 1 Episode 7: The Gap
Air Date: December 12, 2025
Synopsis: Manousos begins a dangerous trek to meet Carol. Returning home from Las Vegas, Carol gets creative with her rebellion.
Directed by: Adam Bernstein
Written by: Jenn Carroll
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Nothing on this planet is truly yours. You cannot give me anything because all that you have was stolen.
I haven’t watched it yet, but at the end of the last episode, when he jumped in the car planning to drive to North America, I wondered how they’re going to deal with the Darien Gap. I’m guessing from the title, it’s going to be a pretty important part of the journey!
I’d imagine that without the human element it probably gets a lot easier, though he could just use a boat and circumvent it entirely.
I’ve seen elsewhere people say that the hive manipulated Carol, but did they?
The hive was nothing but helpful, Carol attacked one of them, nearly killed one of them, and they backed off, but still helped her. Carol did something wrong, Carol showed remorse, the hive came back.
Both Carol and Manousos want the hive to be “evil”, but they’re not. Diabaté doesn’t view them as evil and he’s enjoying life… but as we saw last episode with the fake storyline and the sandwich something isn’t quite right either. They’re not evil… But they’re not human either. The world isn’t at peace, the world no longer exists.
I agree, hive can manipulate people by omiting truth, but it wasn’t a case this time.
Ok, creators of this show really like to torture us: THE SAME PLURBIN VOICEMAIL THREE TIMES IN A ROW!
I don’t find obvious product placement to be an issue there, it adds realism. It’s the same case as in Like a Dragon video game series.
Manousos has amazing mental fortitude, but he’s still just a human and not truly independent. Maybe his rescue will make him change his mind a bit. He may sway Carol to return to her rebellious streak, as she has currently given up.
The voicemail is all Carol has. The rest of the world won’t listen to Carol, but the voicemail and in turn the hive will.
It also shows that Carol has infinite time. She doesn’t need or want to speed up the voicemail.
That song playing during Manousos’s journey is “Esperanza” by Hermanos Gutiérrez
Sure would be nice to have an episode with some action or story.
These super long no talking cuts are really annoying. I found myself fast forwarding through most of this episode.
I understand where this viewpoint is coming from, but this episode had both action and story. We saw just how defiant Manousos is, willing to torch his car in defiance. We saw how determined he was during his hike, repeating his mantra that he’ll deliver to Carol. We saw him fail, fall into the tree, try and recover, and fail some more. For Carol we saw her grow truly alone to the point of suicide.
The slow scenes are slow so that you really feel them.
I was “disappointed” with the lack of development in what we know about the others, but the episode was very good. I am not sure how to say that without sounding judgmental but if you feel the need to fast forward scenes without talking you’re probably unaware that in a visual medium images tell part of the story. Possibly not an accessible series (I hope there are audio tracks for visually impaired folks) but flushing half of it down the toilet says more about what dopamine-factory-media did to our brains in the past few years than it says about pluribus itself.
Or it was just boring.
This episode feels like dragged down, I get it’s done for character development but still feel like it could be done shorter.
One thing I really hated is that sometimes when someone speaks Spanish it does in a broken way, bad accent, even getting words wrong, one would think the hive would speak with the accent that makes the most sense to the person they are taking to.
Manousos, ‘nothing, on this planet, is yours.’
Fuckin’ epic. Loved that whole ‘stolen’ speech. Just before the hive offered to take his car with him I knew he was going to torch it. They didn’t understand, it was his sacrifice. (One of many.)The episode however, as a whole, really laid out the most egregious issue I still have with this show. It’s slow. It drags. It’s honestly just poorly paced. There’s so much to explore, so many questions, yet only so much screen-time.
Some of it is art and artistry, but a lot of it just feels stretched rather than expressive and contemplative.
Here’s an example:+ Carol listening over and over to the same line on the phone, is an artistic choice that relays the feeling that leads to her suicidal lack of caring at the end. It had meaning. A repetition she’s forced to endure. Albeit she could just ask for them to shorten it, she doesn’t. She’s choosing to listen to it. Even going about useless activities like the scratch’n’win during. That wasn’t stretching screen-time. It was… depressing. And she was, depressed.
- Whereas, Manousos’s montage of Paraguay could’ve been condensed. Beautiful location shots, don’t get me wrong. But when I want to watch a nature documentary I vastly prefer Attenborough. It wasn’t in service to the plot. We get it, red line, map, took a while.
The suicidal lack of moving at the end was good character development. And it’s been headed this way for a bit, notably when she laughed off staying with Diabeté.
PS: As a Canadian seeing fireworks sold in convenience stores is weird. That shit’s dangerous, yo.
Love a series that doesn’t shy on irritating the viewer: Carol was bored and they carried the feeling by using a sloth pace, speedrunning it wouldn’t have conveyed the proper character development that they are masterfully doing in this show.
Manusos storyline is great and every shot during his trip is wonderful and sad at the same time. They show his determination even though he almost never speaks a word, but when he does, he kicks!
You believe the intention is to irritate? I doubt that. I think it’s the opposite: the show wants to appeal to our patience, and reward us. If you want instant gratification there’s a gajillion action thrillers to watch…this is a rare show that takes its time, and some of us appreciated it from the get go.
I mean…I think you agree.
