The Showrunner Discloses He Has a Plan for How His Sci-Fi Series Might Finish... Currently.
The creative mastermind never anticipated that his new science-fiction series would turn into a massive hit. “I am so grateful to the audience,” Gilligan says. “I did not foresee the show being as widely discussed as it is, and it makes me deliriously happy.”
With the first season of the acclaimed series wrapping up—and Season 2 greenlit and underway—Gilligan and his team opened up about the audience reaction and whether it will impact the narrative path of Pluribus.
Regarding the Tremendous Audience Reaction
It would be easy to get swayed by the constant speculation and online debates regarding Pluribus. He is doing his best to avoid both.
“It feels like an endless supply of something incredibly sweet and being laughing uncontrollably,” he explains. “It's amazing, but I learn of it anecdotally, and that's intentional. I have never Googled myself, nor do I ever plan to. Not because I don't care. It's a rabbit hole I know I would fall into and then I'd be living in squalor from the hardware store and I'd never leave my living room.”
In spite of trying to stay away, there’s it's impossible to ignore the overwhelmingly positive response to the series. The only approach for the writers is to acknowledge it humbly and try not to let it influence the direction of the show.
“It is not our goal to change the plot,” says writer and executive producer Alison Tatlock. “Our storytelling is not changed by audience chatter.”
“Better to keep our heads down and working,” he chimes in.
The Central Mystery: Will Vince Gilligan Know the Ending of Pluribus?
So if Gilligan and his team aren't taking cues by fan response, does that mean they have mapped out how Pluribus will finally conclude? Essentially yes… in a way.
“We have some interesting ideas about how the story could conclude,” Gilligan reveals. “yet we stand ready to discard a decent plan for a better idea. This approach has served us in well on Better Call Saul and on Breaking Bad even before that. We change course when we conceive of something superior and I suspect we'll be doing that.”
On the other hand, if plans fall through, Gordon Smith has a pretty funny idea to serve as a last resort.
“I keep pitching that it's all in a snow globe, and that we'll reveal the snow globe and that's where they've been all along,” Smith quips, “but nobody's taking me up on that.”
Then again, one could always use the classics?
“I'd love for Carol to wake up in bed next to Bob Newhart,” he jokes.
Pluribus can be watched on Apple TV+.
