Vince Gilligan Reveals He Knows How The Apple TV+ Show Might Finish... For Now.
Vince Gilligan never anticipated that the Apple TV+ show would emerge as a massive hit. “The viewers have been incredible,” Gilligan says. “I did not foresee the show being as talked about as it is, and it makes me thrilled beyond words.”
With the first season of the acclaimed series wrapping up—and Season 2 greenlit and underway—the creative team recently discussed the audience reaction and whether it will influence the narrative path of Pluribus.
About the Incredible Fan Response
Anyone might to get distracted by the widespread acclaim and fan theories regarding Pluribus. He is making a conscious effort to avoid both.
“It's like being force fed your favorite dessert and being tickled to death,” he says. “It's amazing, but I hear about it anecdotally, and that's by design. Never in my life Googled myself, nor do I ever want to. It's quite the opposite. It's a bottomless pit I know I would get lost in and then I'd be never leaving the house from the hardware store and I'd rarely emerge from my living room.”
Regardless of Gilligan’s best intentions, there’s it's impossible to ignore the overwhelmingly positive response to the series. The most practical strategy is to acknowledge it humbly and try not to let it alter the course of the show.
“It is not our goal to change the plot,” says co-executive producer Alison Tatlock. “Our storytelling is not changed by what people are saying.”
“Better to keep our focus on the work,” Gilligan concludes.
A Pressing Query: Will the showrunner Have a Plan for the Conclusion of Pluribus?
So if the creative staff are not listening by audience theories, can we assume they already know how Pluribus will reach its endpoint? In short yes… in a way.
“There are some interesting ideas about where the show might end up,” Gilligan says. “but we are always ready to throw out a solid concept for a better idea. This approach has served us in excellent shape on Better Call Saul and on Breaking Bad even before that. We change course when we get a better idea and I expect we'll continue doing that.”
Then again, if plans fall through, director and writer Gordon Smith has a rather amusing idea to serve as a last resort.
“I keep pitching that everything takes place within a snow globe, and that we'll pull back at the end and that's where they've been all along,” Smith quips, “but no one is buying it.”
Then again, one could always use the legendary finales?
“I'd love for Carol to wake up in bed beside Bob Newhart,” he jokes.
Pluribus can be watched on Apple TV.