Vince Gilligan opens up about what Pluribus Season 2 will be like 

Apple TV+'s Pluribus has emerged brightly as one of the most thrilling sci-fi shows from the platform. When the show landed quietly on our screens in November last year, it wasn’t a gimmick. It was a stage slowly prepared for the show’s eventual success post-release.

Gilligan has previously led projects that stayed in the TV scene for many renewals and seasons. Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad are the crowning jewels of his career; both have lasted for 6 and 5 seasons, respectively.

Vince Gilligan opens up about what Pluribus Season 2 will be like

Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus takes viewers into a world that hinges on an alien invasion that wants to roll all of humanity into a singular hive mind. This world is threatened by erasure and dystopia. This premise alone is a reason why fans have wondered if a Season 2 was in planning.

Gilligan himself has spoken on the possibility many times in his interviews. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the screenwriter has signaled patience rather than panic when it comes to continuing the story.

Speaking after the Season 1 finale, he acknowledged that even though the scope of Season 2 is well within the writers' room, the process won't be rushed. It was an honest admission that Pluribus is built on scale, not speed, where mysteries cook up with time and unfold when the narrative propels them to.

He said,

"It’s going to frustrate some folks, just to be honest. We work at the speed we work at, much like glaciers melt at the speed that they melt at.. For my own sake, as much as anybody, selfishly, I wish we could get this job done quicker because I don’t know how many years I’ve got left. I still want to do more things, but I go slower than I used to. So it’s going to be a while between seasons; it just is. Unless we invent a time machine or figure out how to stop time, it’s just the nature of the beast."

He mentioned that there will be a gap between the two seasons, signalling that the next chapter will require proper effort and time. For fans, then, there is no way of fast-forwarding the wait time through a time machine.

That long-term thinking shows up clearly in another interview conducted by Esquire in December 2025, where he addressed how far he sees the series going. When asked about the possibility of four seasons, he replied:

“Take that with a grain of salt. But yeah, if you ask me, right here, right now, in November of 2025… that seems like a good figure to me. It’d be good to get to around 40 episodes. That’d be nice. But, you know, when we were at this stage in the game on Breaking Bad, I thought I had two, maybe three seasons, and we wanted to do six."

Gilligan also expressed that the series was bigger than what he had worked with. In terms of scale and production, too, Pluribus seemed to have a more complicated and 'daunting' arrangement.

"But, boy, this is a bigger show than I’ve ever had my hand in before. Just the scale and scope of it is wonderful. But it’s daunting. And it takes quite a while to make these episodes. We don’t make as many as quickly as we did in those early days of Breaking Bad. That kind of concerns me. I wonder how much gas I have left in the tank. You know, how much life I’m going to have left to get that far with this new show.”

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His statement reframes Season 2 not how the audience would expect, but as part of a larger arc rather than a continuation for continuation’s sake. Gilligan appears committed to the essence of the show, and that honesty strengthens the case for a second season.

Pluribus is streaming on Apple Tv+

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