One of the most celebrated series from 2025 is Pluribus. The sci-fi series comes from the creator behind Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. The lead actress, Rhea Seehorn, you might already know from a quirky role from 1997, at least if you have an interest in games related to Magic: The Gathering .
What is Pluribus? On November 7, 2025, the new sci-fi series Pluribus premiered on Apple TV. It is created by Vince Gilligan, who has brought us two of the best series of all time, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Even though the series shares a similar premise with a particular episode of Rick and Morty , it has been quite well received. With 160 reviews, the series has an excellent rating of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience is somewhat divided. With over 2500 user reviews, the series only reaches 67%.
The star of the series is Rhea Seehorn. Although she has been acting since 1997, her most notable role is probably in the series Better Call Saul, where she played the character Kim Wexler in 61 episodes. However, her first role was actually in a video game, in 1997 in Magic: The Gathering by developer MicroProse.
A tutorial sorceress who explains the game to you
What is her role in the video game? The Magic: The Gathering game developed by MicroProse was a fairly simple adaptation of the well-known card game for PC in 1997. The game also featured a tutorial on the rules presented by two real actors.
They embodied wizards who explained the rules of the card game to you in a live-action video and 90s CGI. One of these wizards is portrayed by Rhea Seehorn. Appropriate to 90s live-action cutscenes, similar to those from Command & Conquer , the acting is also quite exaggerated.
In an interview (via Instagram), Rhea Seehorn talked about the role and explained that with the very low budget they didn’t even have money for real shoes: We played wizards, and the budget was so low that they didn’t have shoes, but they wanted us to look like we were wearing some kind of gladiator wizard boots or something. So we just wore knee socks with tape that we had wrapped around.
If you need a tutorial for Magic yourself, here is the over 20-minute tutorial where you can hardly recognize Rhea Seehorn:
How did Rhea Seehorn’s career progress? Her first live-action role aside from the Magic tutorial was according to IMDb in the series Homicide in 1997, but only for one episode. After that, she regularly had smaller roles, while larger roles appeared in the less known series I´m with Her (2003-2004) or Alex and Whitney – Sex without Marriage (2011-2013).
Her probably most known role before Pluribus was in Better Call Saul between 2015 and 2022. The series also comes from the pen of Vince Gilligan. In 2024, she additionally had a role in the action film Bad Boys: Ride or Die. In the meantime, she also worked as a voice actress, among others in the series Invincible or My Adventures with Superman.
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