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Fans are more familiar with Vince Gilligan as the mastermind behind gritty crime dramas like “Breaking\u00a0Bad” and “Better\u00a0Call Saul,” but his newest show is about to take things into much different genre territory.\u00a0The Apple TV\u00a0series “Pluribus” has opted for a marketing campaign that raises more questions than answers<\/a>, hinting at strange goings-on just beyond the fringes of the life of main character\u00a0Carol Sturka (played by “Better Call Saul” breakout Rhea Seehorn). But, beyond the vague notion of something not quite feeling right in this world, viewers have been left entirely in the dark about what’s truly going on. That, according to Gilligan, came about in a slightly circular fashion.<\/p>\n Unlike his most well-known work, Gilligan’s journey to bringing “Pluribus” to a television screen near you was decidedly less straightforward than the arcs undergone by Walter White<\/a> or Jimmy McGill. In a stark contrast from the drug cartels and hitmen that make up his prior two shows, “Pluribus” takes a much more heightened approach \u2014 one that might remind certain viewers of his past contributions as a writer on “The X-Files,”<\/a> in fact. But, as Gilligan tells it, it took a bit of a process for him to realize where he wanted to take things this time around. In a spoiler-free interview with The Verge<\/a>, the creator and writer opened up about telling a science fiction story that he didn’t necessarily set out to make. As he put it:<\/p>\n “I didn’t make a conscious decision to make another sci-fi show. I realized there was no other way to explain the happenings other than science fiction.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n