‘Breaking Bad’ creator announces new show, release date, cast

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has dropped the release date for his highly anticipated new sci-fi series on AppleTV+.

Named Pluribus, it will star Rhea Seehorn, who was nominated twice in the Emmys for her role in the Breaking Bad spinoff, Better Call Saul.

The first two episodes will arrive on the streaming service on Friday, November 7, then go to a weekly system, ending with the finale on December 26.

A statement from AppleTV+ described the series as “a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.”

Other main stars will include Karolina Wydra (Sneaky Pete) and Carlos-Manuel Vesga (The Hijacking of Flight 601) with guest stars Miriam Shor (American Fiction) and Samba Schutte (Our Flag Means Death).

Although no outright comparisons have been made, it had tentatively placed in the same realm as The Twilight Zone and The X-Files, which Gilligan also wrote and produced.

Describing the show in 2022, Deadline remarked that it was “thought-provoking but not a morality tale.”

Gillian previously remarked that the series would be set in Albuquerque, just like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, however, a very different version of it. 

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