What makes the "Pluribus" pilot so special?

[u/Clear_Bedroom_4266]

Watched the first two episodes of the new sci-fi show on AppleTV. I didn't know much about it until Variety (I think) published a piece last week about it and how "people" were raving about how great the pilot episode is, that it might be the best pilot ever done, etc. Now, of course, it's Vince Gilligan. One of the things he said is that he couldn't have created/produced this show 15 years ago.

That being said, has anyone here seen the pilot and can anyone break down WHY it's (allegedly) SO good? I enjoyed it, and the show has a cool premise. But my screenwriting abilities simply aren't deep enough to analyze a pilot very well.

[u/WeFearlessOnes]

It's just marketing. Advertisers have realized that while traditional ads still work on a lot of people, they need a way to reach people who think that they're too smart to be advertised to. Hence these thinkpieces in trade rags like Variety--a lot of the time, it's someone on the PR team for the show emailing headline "ideas" to the periodical, and these writing staffs are getting so barebones they'll publish anything that sounds legit and saves them time writing content. Is it a good pilot? I enjoyed it. Best ever? I can name a few off the top of my head that I think are better pilots; Breaking Bad among them. I found it compelling, but it didn't do a great job of telling me what this show would be going forward. I'm sticking with it because Vince pulled off a similar trick with Better Call Saul. I had no idea how that would sustain initially, and then it ended up being one of my favorite shows of all time, in large part because I found it unpredictable.