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Carol Fights to Preserve Identity in Alien Hivemind

1/2/2026

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Story summary
  • In the Apple TV+ series Pluribus, Carol Sturka, the last lesbian on Earth, resists an alien hivemind erasing individuality.
  • After her wife dies, Carol is paired with Zosia, a chaperone, who manipulates her emotions to enable joining the hivemind.
  • The show parallels Carol's trauma at a conversion therapy camp, where she faced social isolation.
  • It critiques erasure of queer culture by showing that joining the hivemind would strip Carol's identity.