My idea of happiness: A new series from Vince Gilligan , a master of the gloriously offbeat, as evidenced by his unlikely hit Breaking Bad — it’s hard now to remember that a drama about a milquetoast’s evolution into a drug kingpin was anything but an easy sell – and its terrific sequel, Better Call Saul .

Before achieving that level of auteur success, Gilligan honed his craft on The X-Files , where he earned his first Emmy nominations. That imaginative genre-blending spirit is alive and well in his latest creation, Pluribus , a sci-fi infused character drama that’s simultaneously creepy and weirdly funny, thoroughly original even when it echoes classics like The Twilight Zone and, more specifically, Invasion of the Body Snatchers . I’ll be surprised if this does

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