Google Earth Image Shows Big Pluribus Spoiler

If you haven't watched Episode 7 of Pluribus, The Gap, go away and watch it first then come back here: this is actually really cool.

Pluribus has been a massive hit for Apple TV. The streaming service hasn't always set the world on fire, though in terms of genre TV it's a sound investment with shows such as Silo, For All Mankind, Foundation, and more. Plus, of course, it's the home for Severance, which has cut through any perceived low audience numbers to be the most zeitgeisty of geek TV shows in recent memory.  

Well, it was up till now, because Apple TV announced last week in typical Pluribus fashion that Vince Gilligan's stylish and twisty sci-fi puzzlebox is now the most watched show on the service ever. Considering it also has Ted Lasso in the stable, that's not bad going. Carol, you go girl.

So Big You Can See it From Space

That's not why we're here, though. We're here because of the massive set that was built to depict the cul-de-sac where the show's main character Carol lives on the edge of Albuquerque. The set is on the outskirts of the city too, and, as 9to5Mac relates, shows up very clearly in the barren landscape to the north west of the city on Google Earth.

This is the latest satellite image of the set, captured on September 30, 2025. Of course, one of the things that makes Google Earth such fun is that you can step back through time using it and see everything looked before. The first images of the set appear on August 30, 2023, and you can still see the framework of the houses as they're being built.

The image from a year later is the one we're after, however: August 30, 2024. We're being ultra cautious about spoilers here, so here's a link to it in Google Earth. Good, eh?

We've had drone shots of spaceships at disused airbases before (specifically, the Millennium Falcon at Greenham Common, which is an odd sentence to type for anyone who lived in the UK in the 1980s). But, as far as we're aware, this is the first time that a major TV show has been potentially spoiled by a satellite image.