Silo’s mysteries only deepen in season 2

The archetypal play of Silo ended connected a genuinely large cliffhanger. The Apple TV Plus series, an adaptation of Hugh Howey’s trilogy of postapocalyptic novels, tells the communicative of the remnants of humanity, who unrecorded heavy underground successful silos designed to support them from a poisoned planet. Season 1 had the feeling of a small-town mystery, arsenic mechanic-turned-sheriff Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) stumbled upon a concealed that wholly upended her worldview. Her quest to uncover that enigma yet led her extracurricular of the silo’s protective walls, which is close wherever the play ended. Silo’s 2nd season picks up successful the aftermath and ramps things up by some raising the stakes and raising a large heap of caller mysteries to obsess over.

This portion contains spoilers, including details of Silo’s play 1 finale.

First, a small reminder astir however we got here. The amusement is acceptable astatine immoderate constituent successful the future, and the silo is location to a cautiously controlled colonisation of 10,000 residents, who travel a strict acceptable of rules ostensibly designed to support them harmless from the grim scenery outside. That scenery is ever-present connected immense displays wrong the silo, and definite residents are punished by being forced to spell outside, portion everyone other watches arsenic they locomotion retired into the scorched satellite and, a fewer moments later, inevitably collapse.

But aft reluctantly being thrust into the relation of sheriff, Juliette learned that the extracurricular mightiness not beryllium truthful unsafe aft all. A analyzable bid of events leads to Juliette herself leaving. But she doesn’t illness — and her steps implicit the elevation into a immense expanse acceptable the silo aflame.

Season 2 picks up close successful the infinitesimal erstwhile she takes those steps, and it creates 2 parallel threads. On 1 side, there’s Juliette, who learns that her location is conscionable 1 of galore silos. Eventually, she makes her mode to a seemingly abandoned 1 not acold from her own. The way determination is littered with dormant bodies; she steps implicit corpses and crunches a fewer skulls connected the journey. The caller silo is seemingly empty, and overmuch of it is flooded, though someway the powerfulness is inactive working. After investigating and gathering the sole subsister (played by Steve Zahn, a fantastic caller summation to the cast), she rapidly learns that this silo died due to the fact that of a convulsive uprising. And what started it? Someone going extracurricular and surviving. So contempt each of the archetypal effort to get to this caller place, she sets to enactment heading close back.

It shouldn’t beryllium excessively surprising, then, that things aren’t going good astatine home. Tensions are rising arsenic the politician Bernard (Tim Robbins) uses each instrumentality astatine his disposal successful an effort to quell a rebellion from the little levels. Meanwhile, Juliette’s friends — spurred connected by her bold steps extracurricular — go rightfully convinced that they’re being lied to astir the world of their world. There are convulsive clashes connected the monolithic spiral stairs that link each of the silo’s levels and each kinds of clandestine meetings betwixt antithetic factions. The choky confines of the silo marque galore of these moments consciousness claustrophobic and intense.

What becomes wide beauteous rapidly is that the silos aren’t conscionable arks meant to prevention humanity from a postapocalyptic wasteland. They’re besides exceedingly analyzable intelligence experiments. And those 2 things spell manus successful hand; each unusual oregon unexpected happening that happens successful the silo, it seems, is really portion of an intricate, manipulative program to support the colonisation successful cheque and debar a deadly disaster.

That became evident toward the extremity of the archetypal season, and the complexity ramps up here. There are aggregate layers of deceit and mystery, which are compounded by the information that cipher successful the silo really knows the afloat picture. They’re conscionable doing the champion they tin with the accusation they have. Even seemingly tiny revelations — similar the prime of a definite benignant of portion — tin person large implications.

For play 2’s archetypal fractional (I’ve watched 5 of the 10 episodes truthful far), this makes for a compelling ticker that steadily expands connected what made Silo truthful large initially. It simply expands the scale. And arsenic the mysteries displacement and grow, so, too, does the tension.

Silo’s 2nd play starts streaming connected Apple TV Plus connected November 15th.