The Showrunner Shares He Knows How Pluribus Will Conclude... For Now.

Vince Gilligan never anticipated that Pluribus would become a massive hit. “I am so grateful to the audience,” he states. “It was unexpected the show being as passionately debated as it is, and it makes me deliriously happy.”

As the debut season of the hit sci-fi show reaching its finale—and Season 2 officially in the works—Gilligan and his team opened up about the fan response and whether it will impact the narrative path of Pluribus.

Regarding the Incredible Fan Response

One could easily to get distracted by the widespread acclaim and audience predictions surrounding Pluribus. The creator is striving to ignore the noise.

“The experience is akin to constantly eating hot fudge sundaes and being in a state of bliss,” he explains. “It's amazing, but I learn of it through word of mouth, and that's intentional. Not once have I looked myself up on the internet, nor do I ever want to. It's not a lack of interest. It's a rabbit hole I know I would disappear down and then I'd be pooping in a five gallon bucket from the hardware store and I'd be stuck in my living room.”

Regardless of Gilligan’s best intentions, there’s no escaping the extremely enthusiastic response to the series. The only approach for the writers is to accept it graciously and try not to let it alter the course of the show.

“It is not our goal to change the plot,” says writer and executive producer Alison Tatlock. “The narrative we craft is not influenced by audience chatter.”

“We prefer to keep our focus on the work,” Gilligan adds.

A Pressing Query: Will the showrunner See the Conclusion of Pluribus?

So if the creative staff aren’t being guided by fan response, does it imply they have already decided how Pluribus will ultimately end? Essentially yes… sort of.

“We have some compelling concepts about where the show might end up,” Gilligan reveals. “but we are always ready to discard a decent plan for a better idea. That philosophy has guided 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 imagine we will be doing that.”

Then again, if plans fall through, executive producer Gordon Smith has a pretty funny idea to fall back on.

“I keep pitching that the entire story is inside a snow globe, and that we'll zoom out in the finale and we're in there,” he says humorously, “but no one is buying it.”

Then again, one could always use the classics?

“I'd love for Carol to open her eyes with Bob Newhart there,” Gilligan adds, smiling.

Pluribus is streaming now on Apple TV.