If you are looking forward to the much-anticipated second season of Apple TV’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi dark comedy drama series, Pluribus, the creator Vince Gilligan has a few updates for you. But don’t expect a new season soon; unlike The Pitt, which gets a new season every year.
During Apple TV’s inaugural press day at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar on Tuesday, Gilligan and Pluribus stars, including Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, Carlos Manuel Vegas, and Samba Schutte, hosted a panel to discuss the status of Pluribus’ upcoming season.
Gilligan answered, “We’re plugging away, my writers are plugging away. All the folks, if you like the show, thank you for getting us here on this stage. It takes a long time to come up with these episodes. We are deeper into the process at this moment than I would like, considering how few episodes we have figured out. But it takes some time, just as it did the first season.”
To temper expectation, Gilligan also added that while they “appreciate everybody’s patience, but it [Pluribus] ain’t gonna be The Pitt, coming back every year. I wish it would be because it’s an awesome show that’s old-school, like we used to do The X-Files [when] we’d come back the same month every year. It will not be like The Pitt. We’ll come back the same month — just the question is what year.”
What is ‘Pluribus’ About?
Pluribus is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after an alien virus transforms almost all of Earth’s population into a peaceful hive mind, and it follows Carol Sturka (Seehorn), a miserable romance novelist who’s somehow unaffected by the extraterrestrial virus. While the rest of the world tries to assimilate Carol into the hive mind, Carol tries to figure out a way to separate people from the hive mind.
How Pluribus Finally Cemented Apple TV’s Place in Hollywood?
Even after producing some of the most talked-about television shows of recent times, Apple TV is still considered to be a fairly new player in Hollywood. After the massive success of shows like Ted Lasso and Severance, Apple TV already had the audience’s attention, but Pluribus’s success finally cemented Apple TV as a major player in the industry. It has been proven that Apple TV will invest in quality rather than quantity, which, in some ways, is the opposite of the strategy the biggest streamer in town, Netflix, employs.
This quality-based investment really shines in shows like Pluribus, as nobody expected a series like this from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Gilligan, and there is a very real chance that major streamers like Netflix and Prime Video would have never made this, or even if they had, they would have cancelled it after the first season.
Pluribus Season 1 is currently available on Apple TV.