Season 1 Episode 6: HDP
Air Date: December 5, 2025
Synopsis: Carol shares a horrific discovery and learns new truths in the process. Mr. Diabaté lives life to the fullest in Sin City.
Directed by: Gandja Monteiro
Written by: Vera Blasi
Season 1 Episode 6: HDP
Air Date: December 5, 2025
Synopsis: Carol shares a horrific discovery and learns new truths in the process. Mr. Diabaté lives life to the fullest in Sin City.
Directed by: Gandja Monteiro
Written by: Vera Blasi
So this virus takes over the planet without a sustainable plan to survive? What’s the overall goal?
What’s the goal of any virus? That’s the thing. It’s behaviour is viral. It is just to spread.
Yes, but viruses don’t have sentience so far as we know. Far beyond that, this one has tenets (or perhaps directives)…and where do either of those come from?
Are they working to spread to all life on earth so they can survive without killing anything both native and uninfected?
All that’s rhetorical btw, I know none of us knows. I think these are answers I’m hoping to have by the time the show ends.
I wonder if the virus was created as a way of creating the “perfect” robot. Their job seems to be to serve those that are not a part of the hive.
The twist then being that this version of the virus, in an attempt to make them more subservient, can’t take care of themselves.
like a self censoring LLM. I already get a lot of Ai vibes from “them”
So I’ve read a number of theories that the story being told is AI. I don’t think that was planned, but it definitely could be. I think it’s more of a story about happiness and what makes someone happy, but I think that is absolutely entwined with AI.
The parallels to LLMs were 99% intentional. Vince Gilligan has strongly criticized artificial intelligence, calling it “the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine.” He even included a disclaimer in the show’s credits stating, “This show was made by humans.”