Pluribus’ Vince Gilligan on making shows that ‘attract really smart viewers’

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Author: Andrew Webster

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Rhea Seehorn in Pluribus.

Now he's best known for the crime-fueled duology of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but when Vince Gilligan was first starting out in television, it was in the realm of sci-fi. Over seven years he penned a number of classic episodes of The X-Files, ranging from a monster-themed spoof of Cops to a bizarre high-speed car chase that was his first collaboration with Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston. And now he's back in the genre with the upcoming Apple TV series Pluribus, which starts streaming in November.

But Gilligan tells me that, while he had been itching to return to sci-fi, actually getting there was a bit of an accident. "I didn't m …

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