Vince Gilligan Discloses He Has an Idea of How His Sci-Fi Series Will Conclude... Currently.
Vince Gilligan never anticipated that Pluribus would turn into a cultural phenomenon. “I am so grateful to the audience,” Gilligan says. “It was unexpected the show being as passionately debated as it is, and it makes me deliriously happy.”
Now that Season 1 of the popular series wrapping up—and the next chapter officially in the works—the creative team reflected on the fan response and whether it will influence the narrative path of Pluribus.
Regarding the Overwhelming Viewer Reception
Anyone might to get sidetracked by the constant speculation and fan theories surrounding Pluribus. Gilligan, however, is striving to avoid both.
“The experience is akin to constantly eating something incredibly sweet and being tickled to death,” he says. “It's wonderful, but I get wind of it anecdotally, and that's intentional. I have never Googled myself, nor do I ever want to. Not because I don't care. It's a deep trap I know I would fall into and then I'd be never leaving the house from the hardware store and I'd be stuck in my living room.”
In spite of Gilligan’s best intentions, there’s it's impossible to ignore the overwhelmingly positive response to the series. The best he and his team can do is to take it in stride and try not to let it dictate the story of the show.
“We make no attempt to tailor anything,” says co-executive producer Alison Tatlock. “The plot we develop is not changed by audience chatter.”
“We prefer to keep our heads down and working,” Gilligan adds.
A Pressing Query: Has the showrunner Know the Finale of Pluribus?
Given that Gilligan and his team are not listening by public opinion, does that mean they already know how Pluribus will reach its endpoint? The answer is yes… with some caveats.
“There are some potential directions about how the story could conclude,” Gilligan reveals. “yet we stand ready to discard a good idea for a superior concept. That has held us in excellent shape on Better Call Saul and on Breaking Bad even before that. We scrap ideas when we conceive of something superior and I suspect we'll be doing that.”
Alternatively, if they hit a wall, director and writer Gordon Smith has a pretty funny idea to fall back on.
“I constantly suggest that it's all in a snow globe, and that we'll zoom out in the finale and that's where they've been all along,” Smith quips, “but nobody's taking me up on that.”
Of course, one could always use the legendary finales?
“I want Carol to open her eyes next to Bob Newhart,” he jokes.
Pluribus is streaming now on Apple TV.
