Vince Gilligan knows how he wants the Pluribus ending to go, but the Breaking Bad creator "isn't precious" about it either: "If we come up with a better way to end this thing, we will"

Rhea Seehorn as Carol and Karolina Wydra as Zosia in Pluribus.
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We may be only two episodes in on Pluribus, but there's already discussion around how the show might end. Coming from the mind of Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, he has a notion about how to wrap the series up, but things could shift over the course of the story.

Essentially, Gilligan's got something on the board for the Pluribus ending, however, he’s keenly aware he has a whole writing room with him, who could come up with something better. "I think we have a pretty good idea of where it should end," he tells Variety.

"One of the most important things I can do in the writers' room is not be too precious about the ideas," he then states. "If we come up with a better way to end this thing, we will." Given how early we are in the narrative, it's both nice to know there’s a destination already planned, and that another direction is possible.

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Better Call Saul regular Rhea Seehorn heads up the show, playing a romantic-fantasy author who finds themselves as one of only a few humans to escape assimilation into a hive mind. Pluribus fuses sci-fi, drama and black comedy in its depiction of her coping with the cataclysmic event and navigating the fallout.

The first two episodes have been incredibly well-received, our own Pluribus season 1 review calling it "one of the year's best dramas." Apple TV has committed to two seasons already, and so far, that seems a wise investment.

Keep our guide to the Pluribus release schedule handy to make sure you never miss an episode, and our list of the best Apple TV shows will give you more top TV to watch.

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Anthony McGlynn
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Anthony is an Irish entertainment and games journalist, now based in Glasgow. He previously served as Senior Anime Writer at Dexerto and News Editor at The Digital Fix, on top of providing work for Variety, IGN, Den of Geek, PC Gamer, and many more. Besides Studio Ghibli, horror movies, and The Muppets, he enjoys action-RPGs, heavy metal, and pro-wrestling. He interviewed Animal once, not that he won’t stop going on about it or anything.

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