Vince Gilligan Is Breaking Good

 " Vince Gilligan knows better than to try to explain where his stories come from. Like the extraterrestrial transmission that kicks off his new Apple TV series, Pluribus, their origin is a mystery. But the writer, producer, and director best known for creating the era-defining crime drama Breaking Bad can approximate where and when he started mulling the idea for the sci-fi epic that would become his first major project since leaving the Walter White universe.

For a creator synonymous with the rise of antihero television, who made his name telling what he famously called “a story about a man who transforms himself from Mr. Chips into Scarface,” this is a seismic shift. Yet it’s also a reflection of the keen moral sensibility that has always permeated Gilligan’s work, as well as the kindness for which he has long been known throughout his industry. Though he remains proud of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, both of which aired on AMC, the once avowedly apolitical storyteller has become convinced that pop culture’s recent supersaturation with antiheroes has been unhealthy for society. His most ambitious series to date, Pluribus can be seen as a corrective of sorts—a grand, artful, mind-bendingly philosophical, darkly funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but consistently humane vindication of our fractious species."
 

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