Attention Pluribus fans: Season two is in the works but don’t expect The Pitt-level of swiftness in between seasons.
Vince Gilligan joined his star Rhea Seehorn and members of the ensemble Karolina Wydra, Carlos Manuel Vesga and Samba Schutte for a panel conversation during Apple TV’s inaugural press day at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar on Tuesday. Naturally, the Emmy Award-winning creator was asked the question “everyone’s dying to know” by a member of the press and fielded by Schutte, who moderated the lively discussion: “Where are you currently in the process of writing Pluribus season two?”
“We’re plugging away,” answered Gilligan. “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.”
Pluribus represents an idea that Gilligan had been molding and shaping for more than a decade, and he cautioned that there are months to go before they can get in front of cameras. “We appreciate everybody’s patience,” he said. “But it 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.”
Considering Pluribus debuted in November 2025, it could be November 2027, November 2028 or beyond. Pluribus casts Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award winner Seehorn as a best-selling writer named Carol, the most miserable person on Earth, who must save the world from happiness.
Samba Schutte, Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, Carlos Manuel Vesga and Vince Gilligan attend the Apple TV press day at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar on Feb. 3, 2026.
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Gilligan’s process surely will be boosted by a well-oiled collaboration with Seehorn. During the panel, the actress opened up on why their partnership works so well after a tenure together on Gilligan’s Better Call Saul. “One of the biggest gifts for me — if you have the incredible fortune to work again and again with somebody as wonderful and talented and genius as Vince is — is that we start to have a little bit of a shorthand,” she said. “We can start to find little, tiny nuances, almost like the points that are between two points on a dial; they’re between one and two, and they’re between two and three. We have a lot of fun looking for how hard to push the comedy in this direction, how far can we push the drama or the terror or the fear in whatever we were doing. Then there’s the added benefit of feeling safe enough to try stuff. It takes a long time to feel like if I tried something and it really falls flat, like, he’s just gonna say, ‘Let’s try something else,’ instead of, ‘Ooh, we made a giant mistake.’ That was really very freeing.”
Pluribus is now streaming on Apple TV.
Seehorn in Pluribus.
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