Culture Crash: Inside The Twisty New Thriller From The “Breaking Bad” Creator

Vince Gilligan has proven himself to be one of the smartest and most engaging writers in the TV business. After cutting his teeth in television on The X-Files, Gilligan went on to win four Emmy’s and six Writer’s Guild Awards with the show Breaking Bad, which he created, wrote for, and directed for. Once Bad wrapped, he went on to co-create its spinoff Better Call Saul. On Saul, Gilligan first started working with actress Rhea Seehorn. She gave one of my favorite TV performances of all time on Better Call Saul, starring as an attorney named Kim Wexler. Now Gilligan and Seehorn have teamed up on a new sci-fi psychological thriller black comedy called Pluribus on Apple TV. 

Across the run of Breaking Bad, Gilligan proved himself to be a crafty writer and a clever showrunner who always seemed to be a step or two ahead of his audience. Breaking Bad would often use its cold open segment to intrigue the audience, for instance  introducing a very villainous set of twins across multiple episodes. Frequently, Gilligan’s audiences don’t know exactly what they’re looking at, or looking for, and the joy comes in watching each meticulously crafted strand come together to form a larger picture.

The new show Pluribus starts with all of those skills very finely honed to create one of the most propulsive and intriguing pilot episodes I’ve seen in years. The actual plot would be hard to describe and the experience is better left savored than explained all at once, but suffice to say the Peak TV-era master of suspense is up to his old tricks, leaving audiences breathlessly trying to keep up as scientists make massive breakthroughs and Seehorn’s character Carol is left having a massive breakdown.

***I’ve been in on Pluribus from the moment it was announced – Seehorn was absolutely masterful on Better Call Saul and Gilligan has proven himself to be one of the greats. While it is still in its early going, I can already see that Pluribus is the kind of show you’re going to want to get in on at the ground floor.

Pluribus streams on Apple TV.

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