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Beau Johnson

@heavypanda736915 · Jan 12, 2026 11:18 am

My best friend catered our Pluribus viewing to me exactly

Trigger warning for mentioned parental death. Also, spoilers for the first episode of Pluribus.
My best friend and I decided to watch Pluribus together after she watched it and loved it. She asked me ahead of time, “Would you rather I spoil things for you, warn you right before they happen, or just let you watch the whole thing?”
For context, I have PTSD from a few things, but specifically from being the only witness to my mother’s sudden death when I was fourteen. She had a blood clot on our nightly walk and collapsed.
I said to warn me right before, and we set to watching it. She paused right as the main character’s wife, Helen, started seizing and let me know that Helen would fall to the ground in a way she thought might be triggering so she offered to skip it and any other scenes showcasing her on the ground. I agreed, especially after seeing that Helen looked a lot like my mom, particularly from behind.
She had the remote right next to her the whole time and skipped every single part that was even remotely similar. She even apologized at one point for ‘not being fast enough’ when a character gasped before falling to the ground because she remembered me telling her that my mom