How Vince Gilligan designed ‘Pluribus’ to destroy every sci-fi trope

Gilligan and his crew gave us an inside look at how they built ‘Pluribus’ into a happy-ish apocalypse. Vince Gilligan spent a decade ruminating about his next TV series before he had a clear vision of what it was going to be. But through all that time, the writer/director, who is best known for creating Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, knew one thing for sure: it had to be entirely different from what he’d made before. In fact, it had to be completely unlike any other show, period.