Vince Gilligan Shares He Has a Plan for How His Sci-Fi Series Will End... Currently.

Vince Gilligan could not have predicted that the Apple TV+ show would emerge as a cultural phenomenon. “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 popular program wrapping up—and the next chapter greenlit and underway—Gilligan and his team opened up about the viewer reception and whether it will impact the narrative path of Pluribus.

About the Incredible Audience Reaction

One could easily to get swayed by the rampant praise and online debates regarding Pluribus. The creator is doing his best to ignore the noise.

“It's like being force fed something incredibly sweet and being laughing uncontrollably,” he describes. “It's wonderful, but I learn of it through word of mouth, and that's on purpose. I have never looked myself up on the internet, nor do I ever want to. It's quite the opposite. It's a bottomless pit I know I would get lost in and then I'd be never leaving the house from Home Depot and I'd be stuck in my living room.”

Despite his concerted efforts, 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 dictate the story of the show.

“We don't try to tailor anything,” says writer and executive producer Alison Tatlock. “The plot we develop is not impacted by online forums.”

“It's wiser to keep our noses to the grindstone,” he chimes in.

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

Considering the writers are not listening by audience theories, does that mean they have already decided how Pluribus will finally conclude? The answer is yes… sort of.

“We've developed some compelling concepts about the ultimate destination,” Gilligan reveals. “yet we stand ready to throw out a decent plan 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 find a more perfect path and I expect we'll continue doing that.”

On the other hand, if plans fall through, director and writer Gordon Smith has a humorous idea to serve as a last resort.

“I keep pitching 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 nobody's taking me up on that.”

Then again, why mess with the legendary finales?

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

Pluribus can be watched on Apple TV+.