Vince Gilligan Reveals He Has a Plan for How The Apple TV+ Show Will End... At the Moment.

The creative mastermind did not foresee that Pluribus would turn into a massive hit. “I am so grateful to the audience,” Gilligan says. “I did not foresee the show being as talked about as it is, and it makes me deliriously happy.”

With the first season of the hit sci-fi show coming to an end—and Season 2 already in development—Gilligan and his team reflected on the viewer reception and whether it will impact the future direction of Pluribus.

On the Incredible Fan Response

One could easily to get swayed by the widespread acclaim and audience predictions about Pluribus. Gilligan, however, is striving to ignore the noise.

“It feels like an endless supply of your favorite dessert and being laughing uncontrollably,” he describes. “It's the greatest thing, but I hear about it anecdotally, and that's intentional. Not once have I Googled myself, nor do I ever intend to. It's not a lack of interest. It's a rabbit hole I know I would get lost in and then I'd be living in squalor from Home Depot and I'd never leave my living room.”

Despite trying to stay away, there’s no escaping the immensely favorable response to the series. The best he and his team can do is to take it in stride and try not to let it alter the course of the show.

“We make no attempt to adjust our writing,” says writer and executive producer Alison Tatlock. “The narrative we craft is not impacted by what people are saying.”

“Better to keep our heads down and working,” he chimes in.

The Central Mystery: Will Vince Gilligan Know the Ending of Pluribus?

Considering Gilligan and his team aren’t being guided by public opinion, does that mean they have mapped out how Pluribus will reach its endpoint? The answer is yes… sort of.

“We have some potential directions about the ultimate destination,” Gilligan says. “however, we remain prepared to discard a good idea for a more brilliant plan. That has held us in well on Better Call Saul and on Breaking Bad even before that. We scrap ideas when we conceive of something superior and I imagine we will be doing that.”

Alternatively, if all else fails, executive producer Gordon Smith has a rather amusing idea to fall back on.

“My recurring proposal is that everything takes place within a snow globe, and that we'll pull back at the end and the characters are inside it,” Smith jokes, “but no one is buying it.”

Alternatively, one could always use the classics?

“I want Carol to open her eyes with Bob Newhart there,” he jokes.

Pluribus can be watched on Apple TV.