Vince Gilligan’s new sci-fi show Pluribus was 10 years in the making

About a decade ago, Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, had an idea. That idea can best be summed up by the logline for his mysterious new science fiction show, Pluribus: “The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.” But getting from that simple, strange sentence to an actual TV show took a lot of patience and a bit of luck. Thankfully, Gilligan had plenty of both.