Pluribus star Rhea Seehorn “firmly disagrees” with Quentin Tarantino’s controversial assessment of television being a “forgettable” medium.
During a 2024 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the Oscar-winning director offhandedly remarked that films are better than TV because the latter doesn’t stick with audiences the same way. “I’ll see a good western movie, and I’ll remember it for the rest of my life,” Tarantino said.
Seehorn, 53, who is largely a TV actor, could not disagree more. “I mean, there’s forgettable films just like there’s forgettable television and then there’s ones that stick with you,” the Better Call Saul alum told Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt at the SXSW film festival over the weekend.
“Our shows, if I didn’t have the great fortune of being in them, really stick with me. I’m still thinking about Leftovers. I’m still thinking about Six Feet Under. The storytelling is what sticks with you.”
Seehorn was joined by her Pluribus and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan, who added: “I met him once for 10 seconds, I don’t know Quentin Tarantino, but I betcha he’s telling the truth for him.”
Seehorn concurred, acknowledging that Tarantino is “such a film aficionado.”
“Like Rhea, I’m still thinking about The Twilight Zone; I’m still thinking about The Andy Griffith Show,” the Breaking Bad creator said. “I’m still thinking about M*A*S*H. I’m still thinking about WKRP in Cincinnati.”
This certainly is not the first time Tarantino’s gotten heat for divisive comments. Late last year, the Pulp Fiction filmmaker sparked backlash for labeling There Will Be Blood’s Paul Dano as the 2007 film’s “giant flaw.”
“He is such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy,” Tarantino declared on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast in December 2025. “The weakest f***ing actor in SAG. [The Screen Actors Guild].”
Several actors, including Daniel Day-Lewis and Ben Stiller, later spoke out in defense of Dano, many of them heaping praise on The Batman star.
“Paul Dano is f***ing brilliant,” Stiller wrote on X at the time.
Meanwhile, Seehorn leads Gilligan’s latest sci-fi series, Pluribus, about a romance novelist, Carol, who has to save the world from a virus that transforms the rest of humanity into a hive mind. Karolina Wydra and Carlos Manuel Vesga also star.
The show, which premiered on Apple TV+ in November 2025, marks Seehorn and Gilligan’s second collaboration. Seehorn previously starred in the Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul opposite Bob Odenkirk, from 2015 to 2022.
Seehorn’s performance as Carol earned her the Golden Globe for Best Female Actor in Television Series Drama at the 2026 ceremony and is expected to land her an Emmy nomination later this year.
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