I'm kind of glad that Season 1 didn't end on a massive clifhanger to be honest but it still sucks that these series always need to wait to see what the viewing numbers are before they really get the green light for the next season which creates years inbetween them. From what I read, the (SPOILER) "atom bomb ending' was something they added last minute and they don't fully know yet what to do with it. It's also said that there will be around 40 episodes so 4-5 seasons likely.
Even with the filler slow episdes, I highly enjoyed watching it each week which makes me want to check some more apples original series. Next up on my list is Shrinking which I heard is quite good also.
Happy 2026!
I hadn't considered that they might be waiting to see if anyone likes it before so much as even starting on writing the second season but that does seem to be the case. I suppose it is better than other shows where they already have the entire thing written or hastily write and shoot it in order to have it be an annual thing. The best example of this happening to me would be LOST, which was excellent but it became increasingly clear that there was actually no story there and that they were throwing together whatever slop they could in order to get the episodes out on time. Because of this hastily thrown together idea the show seriously suffered more and more as time went by. In my mind, it didn't appear as though they really had a story beyond the first few episodes and were just kind of winging it from that point forward. Perhaps someone had an overall idea of where that show was going, but in order to have a lot of episodes per season, they had to make up increasingly nonsensical bullcrap to fill up the episodes.
If Pluribus is in fact interested in this being a masterpiece, then I too would prefer that they wait rather than rush it out. 2-3 years does seem like an awfully huge amount of time but perhaps this is why they didn't have any child actors in the main part of the cast. It would be too noticeable how much older they were in real life.