When Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus debuted on Apple TV earlier this month, more than a few Breaking Bad fans expressed confusion about why the man who created Walter White and Saul Goodman was making a globe-trotting sci-fi show. Rather than cue up a clip of Schmidt from New Girl complaining about youths, let’s forgive them for not knowing that Gilligan broke into television with The X-Files, writing episodes about shape-shifters with vestigial tails, cancer-eating mutants, alien conspiracies, and more. Pluribus is Gilligan getting back to his roots after 15 years in a world of crystal meth and con artistry.
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