David Bianculli

Ladd's real-life daughter, Laura Dern, played her daughter in the film.

They worked together again in mother-daughter roles in the film Rambling Rose, and both were nominated for Academy Awards.

They continued in that pairing in the HBO series Enlightened.

In 2023, Terry Gross spoke with Laura Dern.

The actress had just written a book about conversations with her mother.

It grew out of her mother's diagnosis of lung disease, when the doctor had given her six months to live.

He suggested that walks might help increase her lung capacity, so Dern began taking her mother on 15-minute walks every day.

Laura Dern speaking with Terry Gross in 2023.

Her mother, Diane Ladd, died Monday at the age of 89.

Coming up, I review Pluribus, the new Apple TV Plus series from Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad.

This is Fresh Air.

Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad and co-creator of Better Call Saul, has a new series called Pluribus.

It stars Ray Sehorne from Better Call Saul, and the first two of its nine episodes premiere tonight on Apple TV+.

Seven of the nine were made available for preview, and I've seen them all.

But I want you to have as much fun watching Pluribus as I did, so I'm going to say as little as possible about what happens in them.

Apple TV Plus already has renewed Pluribus for a Season 2, and it's a smart move.

Vince Gilligan, once again, has come up with a boldly brilliant TV series.

The best way to describe Pluribus without revealing anything is to think of it as an episode of The Twilight Zone spun off into its own series.

It begins with scientists monitoring a radio telescope and discovering something new and exciting.

That's similar to the way another fantasy drama series, Three-Body Problem, began recently.