The Showrunner Discloses He Has a Plan for How Pluribus Will End... Currently.
The creative mastermind could not have predicted that Pluribus would turn into a cultural phenomenon. “I am so grateful to the audience,” he remarks. “I was surprised by the show being as talked about as it is, and it makes me deliriously happy.”
With the first season of the hit sci-fi show coming to an end—and a second season already in development—the creative team recently discussed the audience reaction and whether it will shape the narrative path of Pluribus.
Regarding the Incredible Audience Reaction
It would be easy to get swayed by the widespread acclaim and audience predictions regarding Pluribus. The creator is making a conscious effort to avoid both.
“It feels like an endless supply of something incredibly sweet and being in a state of bliss,” he says. “It's amazing, but I get wind of it from others, and that's intentional. Never in my life Googled myself, nor do I ever plan to. It's not a lack of interest. It's a rabbit hole I know I would fall into and then I'd be pooping in a five gallon bucket from Home Depot and I'd rarely emerge from my living room.”
In spite of trying to stay away, there’s no way to avoid the overwhelmingly positive response to the series. The best he and his team can do is to acknowledge it humbly and try not to let it alter the course of the show.
“It is not our goal to adjust our writing,” says co-executive producer Alison Tatlock. “Our storytelling is not influenced by audience chatter.”
“We prefer to keep our noses to the grindstone,” he chimes in.
The Big Question: Has the showrunner Have a Plan for the Ending of Pluribus?
So if the writers are not listening by fan response, can we assume they have already decided how Pluribus will finally conclude? The answer is yes… in a way.
“We've developed some interesting ideas about where the show might end up,” he states. “but we are always ready to discard a decent plan for a superior concept. That philosophy has guided us in excellent shape on Better Call Saul and on Breaking Bad even before that. We throw stuff out when we find a more perfect path and I imagine we will be doing that.”
Then again, if all else fails, director and writer Gordon Smith has a humorous idea to fall back on.
“My recurring proposal is that the entire story is inside a snow globe, and that we'll reveal the snow globe and that's where they've been all along,” Smith quips, “but no one is buying it.”
Then again, one could always use the classics?
“I want Carol to awaken next to Bob Newhart,” Gilligan says with a smile.
Pluribus can be watched on Apple TV.