Selvom Vince Gilligan bestemt ikke er immun over for charmen ved at grave i en allerede eksisterende IP for en ny historie, følte Better Call Saul, at det lykkedes at droppe de fleste af de prequel-troper, der får os til at føle os fanget i gamle historier. I hans nye serie er der absolut intet at gøre med Breaking Bad eller Better Call Saul, på trods af Rhea Seehorns udseende.
I en samtale med Variety delte Gilligan sin skepsis over for aktuelle medieprojekter. "We live in a world of IP, where the safest thing to do is to reboot something that already has an audience. I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn't a one-trick pony," sagde han. "It's harder than ever to get something made that isn't based on a previous movie, comic book, or video game. Every generation deserves its own stories rather than just their grandparents' stories."
På trods af at serien ikke foregår i Breaking Bad-universet, formåede Gilligans seneste show at tiltrække adskillige studier takket være hans renommé som showrunner. "It was nice to be wanted, but I met with all these lovely people, and I had to say no to some of them, and that wasn't fun," sagde han. Til sidst valgte Gilligan Apple TV, da de lovede at give ham deres fulde tillid og tid.
De første to episoder af Pluribus blev afsløret den 7. november. Du kan se vores indtryk af showet her.