Pluribus

Apple

While many shows are attempting to condense the time between season breaks, given that every streaming viewer is getting pretty sick of the sprawling two, three, even four-year waits (looking at you, Euphoria), other shows are…less on that track. One of them is Pluribus.

Previously, Vince Gilligan laughed off the idea that Pluribus season 2 would begin filming in May (of what year, he asked). Now, we have an update from Zosia actress Karolina Wydra speaking to Screenrant:

“I cannot wait for us to be in one city, because Vesga lives in Colombia, so we don't get to see him that often. So I cannot wait for us to be together every day. So, I don't know when we're going back, but I cannot wait. I'm counting the days. Sometime in the fall.”

“Sometime in the fall” means we are potentially going to see filming start a full year after season 1 of Pluribus debuted on November 7, 2025. So yes, in an age when many shows are trying to get out yearly like in the olden days of TV, Pluribus isn’t even starting filming for that length of time.

What does that do to the release date? Nothing good, based on what we know about season 1.

Season 1 of Pluribus started filming in February 2024. That ended in September 2024, then there were a whopping ten months of post-production on top of that.

What does that add up to? Let’s assume an early November start date for season 2 filming. That puts us at a potential release date of August 2028. Which would be a two-year, nine-month gap between season premieres of the show, pushing into what we saw from Severance on Apple, which had a two-year, eleven month gap between seasons 1 and 2.

This is awful, no two ways around it. While I understand that Pluribus is a larger-scale production than say, Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan’s most famous project. From 2008 to 2013, we were getting 13-episode seasons of the show every 12-16 months. How did we get to a point where we’re going to be waiting almost three years for nine episodes of a show?

I understand the position of “well, we don’t want to rush it,” but these series and their respective streaming services should not be surprised when shows, even well-liked ones, see enormous viewership drops when people are asked to wait that long. I’m looking forward to Pluribus season 2, but not even filming until a year after its release is pretty absurd.

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