The 'Breaking Bad' Creator Discloses He Has an Idea of How His Sci-Fi Series Will End... At the Moment.
The creative mastermind never anticipated that Pluribus would turn into a cultural phenomenon. “God bless the fans,” Gilligan says. “I was surprised by the show being as passionately debated as it is, and it makes me deliriously happy.”
As the debut season of the acclaimed program reaching its finale—and the next chapter already in development—the creative team recently discussed the fan response and whether it will impact the future direction of Pluribus.
About the Incredible Audience Reaction
Anyone might to get sidetracked by the rampant praise and audience predictions surrounding Pluribus. He is striving to ignore the noise.
“The experience is akin to force fed your favorite dessert and being in a state of bliss,” he describes. “It's the greatest thing, but I hear about it anecdotally, and that's by design. I have never searched for my own name online, nor do I ever plan to. It's quite the opposite. It's a bottomless pit I know I would fall into and then I'd be pooping in a five gallon bucket from Home Depot and I'd never leave my living room.”
Regardless of Gilligan’s best intentions, there’s no way to avoid the immensely favorable response to the series. The best he and his team can do is to accept it graciously and try not to let it alter the course of the show.
“It is not our goal to tailor anything,” says co-executive producer Alison Tatlock. “The narrative we craft is not influenced by online forums.”
“Better to keep our heads down and working,” he chimes in.
A Pressing Query: Does Vince Gilligan Know the Ending of Pluribus?
Considering Gilligan and his team are not listening by audience theories, can we assume they have mapped out how Pluribus will reach its endpoint? Essentially yes… in a way.
“We have some potential directions about the ultimate destination,” Gilligan says. “yet we stand ready to throw out a solid concept for a better idea. That has held us in well on Better Call Saul and on Breaking Bad even before that. We scrap ideas when we get a better idea and I suspect we'll be doing that.”
Then again, if they hit a wall, director and writer Gordon Smith has a rather amusing idea to serve as a last resort.
“My recurring proposal is that the entire story is inside a snow globe, and that we'll zoom out in the finale and that's where they've been all along,” Smith jokes, “but nobody's taking me up on that.”
Then again, why mess with the classics?
“I'd love for Carol to wake up in bed next to Bob Newhart,” he jokes.
Pluribus is streaming now on the streaming service.
