Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is currently filming a secretive show called Wycaro in Albuquerque. Here’s what we currently know about it.
Having immersed himself for years in the darkly thrilling crime world of Breaking Bad and its spin-off, Better Call Saul, creator Vince Gilligan is making a somewhat different-sounding TV series, this time for Apple TV+. The show, said to be called Wycaro, is currently being kept in a heavily-padded jiffy bag of secrecy – all we know is that it’s set in Albuquerque, much like Breaking Bad, spin-off film El Camino and Better Call Saul, and will star Rhea Seehorn, who played Kim Wexler in the latter.
According to World of Reel, the series is currently filming on location in Albuquerque, and repeats a longstanding rumour that it might be a sci-fi show or some form of return to the style of The X-Files – a show Gilligan regularly wrote and directed in his early career.
Some recently-leaked photographs appear to confirm that Wycaro is the show’s current title. A photo shared on a Rhea Seehorn fan account shows what is seemingly an embroidered hat with the show’s logo on it – seemingly a gift for its crew. You can see the logo by itself in this tweet:
It has a distinctly 18th century, printed quality to it, and note the cutlass in the middle. It vaguely suggests we’re in for a show about pirates rather than anything in the vein of The X-Files. It’s not clear what the significance of the number 339 is, either. Is the series’ full title Wycaro 339?
Of his mysterious show, Gilligan told Variety in 2023, “The world changes very abruptly in the first episode, and then it is quite different. And the consequences that that reaps hopefully provide drama for many, many episodes after that.”
Seehorn, meanwhile, has suggested the show will indeed have a “sci-fi element”, but refused to say much else other than that Gilligan wrote the series specifically for her to star in it.
“We’re never allowed to say anything,” Seehorn told The Hollywood Reporter in January. “He’s already released that it has a sci-fi element; more psychological than full space. And he wrote it for me – which is hard to say without crying. And we will shoot in Albuquerque, with a lot of the same crew.”
Previous reports, such as Deadline's, have compared Gilligan’s new series to The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling’s hugely influential anthology series which took in elements of sci-fi, horror, suspense and drama. Seehorn has also hinted (again to THR) that Wycaro, if that is what it’s called, will be similarly genre-bending.
“I guess the only other thing I’m allowed to say,” the actor said, “is that in his genius way, even when you’re reading the scripts – I’ve read three – every time you think you know what story or what genre this is, he takes a turn. He keeps taking a turn. It’s amazing writing.”
Putting the talk of sci-fi elements, The Twilight Zone and that cutlass, could we be in for some sort of time travel show? At present, we can only speculate.
More on this mystery TV project as we get it.
