Did you enjoy Pluribus season one, the new show from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul’s Vince Gilligan? Are you excited for season two? Well, you might have to calm the jets and wait this one out… or you might not have to, depending on who you talk to.
After its Christmas Eve finale, creator Vince Gilligan has said that, while they’re keen to get going on season 2, fans will need to be patient: “We’re working on it,” he says, “it takes us a while. I would love to go faster if I could.”
Cutting his teeth on The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, Gilligan, who is best known for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is no stranger to sci-fi and high concept TV, which why the story of an Earth conquered (is that the word? Probably) by an alien virus that turns everyone, except Seahorn and a few others, into a hive-mind is within his confort zone.
“As much as I am so grateful for the fans digging this show, we’ve always found our best way to proceed is to be in our bunker creating this thing and not pay too much attention to reactions of any sort, positive or negative,” Gilligan says.
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“We’re kind of the first fans of this show, the first viewers of the show, and we kinda try to make ourselves happy.”
Cutting his teeth on The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, Gilligan, who is best known for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is no stranger to sci-fi and high concept TV, which why the story of an Earth conquered (is that the word? Probably) by an alien virus that turns everyone, except Seahorn’s Carol and a few others, into a hive-mind is within his confort zone.
However, as much as Gilligan wants us to prepare for a long wait (he’s clearly following the Severance book of making TV shows), Seahorn herself, fresh off her Golden Globes 2026 win for the role, says things are already moving ahead and the wait shouldn’t be too long and it’s definitely not part of Gilligan’s plan to keep the second season as far in the future as possible: “I know [Gilligan] wants us to go as soon as possible. He’s not playing any kind of game to make people wait for this. But he wants to craft the show with all the care for his fans and the people following this story that he can. So we’ll get back as fast as we can.”
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So far, I’ve enjoyed Pluribus fine, although it hasn’t grabbed me the way Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul did. I am definitely keen to see where the story goes next, I just would have thought that, having been given a two-season order from the get-go, there’d be more of a plan already.
Still, I’ll be here to watch when Carol declares war on the hive-mind in season 2.
“Pluribus,” is the highly anticipated drama hailing from writer and director Vince Gilligan, the creator of “Breaking Bad” and co-creator of “Better Call Saul.”
Starring Rhea Seehorn, who earned two Emmy nominations for her acclaimed performance on “Better Call Saul,” the nine-episode drama series will make its global debut on Apple TV with its first two episodes on Friday, November 7, 2025, followed by new episodes every Friday through December 26.
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Picked up in a two-season order, “Pluribus” is a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness. In addition to Seehorn, the series stars Karolina Wydra (“Sneaky Pete”) and Carlos-Manuel Vesga (“The Hijacking of Flight 601”), and guest stars Miriam Shor (“American Fiction”) and Samba Schutte (“Our Flag Means Death”).
“Pluribus” is produced by Sony Pictures Television and executive produced by Emmy Award-winning Gilligan alongside WGA Award winner Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock, Diane Mercer, Allyce Ozarski, and Jeff Frost. Jenn Carroll and Trina Siopy serve as co-executive producers.
All episodes are currently available on Apple TV.
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