The Showrunner Reveals He Has a Plan for How The Apple TV+ Show Will End... At the Moment.
The acclaimed writer-producer could not have predicted that Pluribus would emerge as a cultural phenomenon. “The viewers have been incredible,” he remarks. “I did not foresee the show being as talked about as it is, and it makes me overjoyed.”
With the first season of the acclaimed series reaching its finale—and a second season officially in the works—Gilligan and his team reflected on the viewer reception and whether it will shape the storyline of Pluribus.
About the Tremendous Viewer Reception
Anyone might to get swayed by the widespread acclaim and fan theories about Pluribus. The creator is doing his best to ignore the noise.
“The experience is akin to constantly eating hot fudge sundaes and being tickled to death,” he says. “It's amazing, but I hear about it anecdotally, and that's by design. Not once have I looked myself up on the internet, nor do I ever plan to. It's not a lack of interest. It's a deep trap I know I would get lost in and then I'd be never leaving the house from the hardware store and I'd be stuck in my living room.”
Regardless of Gilligan’s best intentions, there’s no way to avoid the overwhelmingly positive response to the series. The only approach for the writers is to accept it graciously and try not to let it dictate the story of the show.
“We make no attempt to adjust our writing,” says co-executive producer Alison Tatlock. “The plot we develop is not impacted by online forums.”
“We prefer to keep our noses to the grindstone,” Gilligan adds.
The Big Question: Will the showrunner Have a Plan for the Ending of Pluribus?
Given that Gilligan and his team are not listening by audience theories, does it imply they have already decided how Pluribus will reach its endpoint? Essentially yes… in a way.
“We have some compelling concepts about the ultimate destination,” he states. “but we are always ready to discard a decent plan for a superior concept. That has held us in good stead on Better Call Saul and on Breaking Bad even before that. We throw stuff out when we conceive of something superior and I suspect we'll be doing that.”
On the other hand, if all else fails, Gordon Smith has a humorous idea to use as a backup.
“I constantly suggest that it's all in a snow globe, and that we'll reveal the snow globe and the characters are inside it,” Smith quips, “but no one is buying it.”
Of course, one could always use the classics?
“My dream is Carol to wake up in bed beside Bob Newhart,” Gilligan says with a smile.
Pluribus is currently available on the streaming service.
