The Showrunner Discloses He Knows How The Apple TV+ Show Will Conclude... Currently.
The acclaimed writer-producer could not have predicted that the Apple TV+ show would become a breakout success. “I am so grateful to the audience,” Gilligan says. “I was surprised by the show being as widely discussed as it is, and it makes me thrilled beyond words.”
With the first season of the hit sci-fi show wrapping up—and the next chapter greenlit and underway—Gilligan and his team recently discussed the audience reaction and whether it will impact the narrative path of Pluribus.
On the Incredible Fan Response
Anyone might to get distracted by the rampant praise and fan theories about Pluribus. Gilligan, however, is striving to steer clear of all that.
“It feels like constantly eating your favorite dessert and being tickled to death,” he describes. “It's amazing, but I learn of it from others, and that's on purpose. Never in my life Googled myself, nor do I ever plan to. Not because I don't care. It's a deep trap 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.”
In spite of trying to stay away, there’s no escaping the overwhelmingly positive 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 change the plot,” says writer and executive producer Alison Tatlock. “The plot we develop is not influenced by audience chatter.”
“Better to keep our focus on the work,” he chimes in.
The Central Mystery: Has Vince Gilligan See the Finale of Pluribus?
So if Gilligan and his team aren't taking cues by audience theories, does it imply they already know how Pluribus will finally conclude? In short yes… with some caveats.
“We have some potential directions about the ultimate destination,” Gilligan reveals. “yet we stand ready to abandon a solid concept for a better idea. That has held us in good stead 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 they hit a wall, executive producer Gordon Smith has a pretty funny idea to serve as a last resort.
“I keep pitching that everything takes place within a snow globe, and that we'll reveal the snow globe and the characters are inside it,” he says humorously, “but nobody's taking me up on that.”
Of course, one could always use the legendary finales?
“I want Carol to wake up in bed with Bob Newhart there,” he jokes.
Pluribus is currently available on Apple TV+.
