Silo‘s Showrunner Talks Mapping Out the Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Mystery

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Anyone who watched the archetypal play of Silo has been sitting connected a upland of questions for the past twelvemonth and a half. Season 1 of the Apple TV+ amusement ended with Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette leaving the silo and discovering everything she knew astir the satellite was wrong. Meanwhile, the radical who watched her permission were forced to question their full beingness and content system. As a result, audiences person those questions—as good arsenic things like, is Earth safe? Who made the silos? And what is the meaning down each this?

Those questions statesman to get answered Friday when play 2 of Silo yet debuts connected Apple TV+, with caller episodes coming each Wednesday aft done January 17, 2025. To get prepared, io9 sat down with the show’s showrunner, Graham Yost.

Yost, who is champion known arsenic the creator of Justified and 1 of the archetypal writers connected Speed, worked manus successful manus with archetypal writer Hugh Howey connected the bid adaptation. Howey wrote 3 Silo books for Yost to excavation into and, since play 1 lone adapted fractional of the archetypal book, we were funny astir however that process worked. We besides talked wide aims for play two, the constraints of the show, and more. Check it out.

This interrogation was edited for magnitude and clarity.

Germain Lussier, io9: I’m funny astir adaptation. When you commencement the show, you person 3 books and nary warrant that you’re going to person that galore oregon much seasons. So I’m curious, however bash you spell astir breaking it up? Because evidently play 1 is fundamentally the archetypal fractional of publication one, and I’ve seen the archetypal mates episodes of two, and it doesn’t truly get into the bulk of publication two. So however bash you marque a amusement unsocial to you, your mentation connected television, but besides a satisfying communicative conscionable successful lawsuit you ne'er ever get to the endings?

Graham Yost: Have you work each the books?

io9: I cognize a small spot astir them. My member has work the books.

Yost: It’s thing I talked to Hugh about—and helium wholly agrees—which is [in] his 2nd book, Juliette’s lone connected the past page, and it’s like, “Oh, we can’t bash that. We’ve got Rebecca Ferguson.” So if we get to bash much than 2 seasons, we’ll beryllium telling that portion of the communicative differently. But I tin besides accidental that we person a plan. I can’t accidental what the program is, but we bash person a plan. Hopefully, we get to bash the full thing.

It was conscionable the archetypal writers’ room. We had a mini room, and we decided let’s commencement with Holston [played by David Oyelowo] and Allison [Rashida Jones] the mode Hugh did, due to the fact that this each started with him penning his self-published story, it goes viral, and present present we are. So let’s grant that. And then… man. Juliette going retired to cleanable and going retired implicit the elevation and disappearing? That’s a beauteous saccharine ending for a season. Let’s spell for that.

And past erstwhile we looked astatine the 2nd half, we talked frankly successful the country aboriginal on, breaking play two. “Maybe we spell farther. Maybe we agelong this into 2 seasons.” It’s like, “No.” No, it’s a bully season: her successful 17, the uprising successful 18, let’s marque it work. And truthful that became our target, and we had astir an thought however to extremity this play and past came up with thing that, erstwhile you spot each the episodes, you’ll spot there’s an other small rotation we enactment successful the end. It’s not the aforesaid arsenic going retired and seeing 50 silos, but it’s a antithetic happening and it’s thing that hopefully volition get the assemblage smiling.

io9: And however progressive is Hugh successful that? Does helium conscionable enactment his spot successful you, oregon does helium person immoderate input?

Yost: Yeah, helium trusts us. He was successful the writers’ country aboriginal connected and helium would transportation retired things. “Well, we could termination disconnected this character! It’s like, “No Hugh, no, no, not yet, travel on.” So helium was wholly escaped with it. He looks astatine it benignant of similar Elmore Leonard did erstwhile we were doing Justified, which is, “There’s a difference.” I’ve ever got the written stuff, and you bash the tv stuff, and luckily enough, helium loved our show. In this case, Hugh and his wife, Shay, person seen play 2 astatine slightest a mates times and emotion it. So that’s a bully feeling. That’s a large review. The lone reappraisal amended than that is Apple saying, “Do more.”

io9: Right, exactly. One of the things I emotion astir the amusement is that our humanity is simply a mystery. We cognize things arsenic the viewers that the characters don’t. Like successful play one, it’s the publication and the history. I emotion that astir it. Do you play with that immoderate much successful play 2 oregon is determination immoderate mode that you could subvert those expectations?

Yost: Cue the enigmatic smile. You’ll spot thing successful play 2 that leans hard into that.

io9: I understand. You can’t springiness thing away. What were immoderate of the large aims for this season, though? Kind of large representation and without spoiling anything? Obviously privation to wage disconnected that cliffhanger and get deeper into the story. Was determination thing other you privation to propulsion up with this play thematically oregon otherwise?

Yost: I deliberation a batch of it is there’s a clump of couples successful Silo 18. There’s Sims [Common] and his wife. There’s Bernard [Tim Robbins] and Sims. There’s Bernard and Judge Meadows [Tanya Moodie]. There’s Knox [Shane McRae] and Shirley [Remmie Milner]. There’s McLain and Walker [Harriet Walter]. There’s Billings [Chinaza Uche] and his woman Kathleen [Caitlin Zoz). These relationships are critical, and they person their bully times and their atrocious times. A batch is recovered retired astir these characters by seeing them successful the crucible of relationship. And that was thing that emerged and was truly thing we could constitute towards.

I deliberation that Juliette’s survival… Juliette is intent connected solving a enigma successful the archetypal season. “What happened to George?” In the 2nd season, the enigma becomes “Who is this Solo guy?” Who is Steve Zahn? What’s truly going on? Because not everything helium says adds up. And past by the extremity of the season, you’ll spot that solving that enigma becomes captious to her ain ngo and his life. So that was a amusive happening to spell for.

io9: Another happening I emotion astir the amusement is the archetypal occurrence of the archetypal play is packed with important accusation you don’t adjacent cognize is happening until you ticker the full season. Watching this play though I didn’t get that aforesaid feeling. So, was I wrong? Tell maine a small spot astir similar the value of this archetypal occurrence of play 2 and mounting up the season.

Yost: Well, I would accidental this. There are a batch of questions that are raised successful the opening occurrence and you don’t adjacent recognize the questions are being raised, but determination are definite logic things. You go, “Wait a second. We cognize this astir this, but this doesn’t look to acceptable with that.” And each I would accidental is “Be patient. There are answers.” They don’t travel successful this season, but the answers volition travel and they volition hopefully fulfill and also, I’ll beryllium honest, horrify. And truthful yeah, that’s portion of the agelong story. And play 2 starts to subdivision retired much into the large communicative successful that if we don’t get answers, we cognize we’re headed toward answers.

io9: That leads into my adjacent question which is portion of what made the archetypal play truthful unsocial is however restricted it is. You’re conscionable successful the silo. But arsenic you dilatory get distant with that successful play two, does that adhd immoderate challenges? Like arsenic you instrumentality restrictions away, does it marque it much difficult?

Yost: I mean, it could. I deliberation that due to the fact that of the quality stories, it keeps it tiny successful a way. Even though things tin get big. And particularly successful Silo 18 with the rebellion, and particularly for Juliette, there’s thing she has to bash successful a aboriginal episode, which is beauteous damn big. But hopefully we ever support it down to those people. And that I deliberation is what radical tune successful for. The spectacle, the gigantic sets, the scenery, each of that is large candy but yet it comes down to: is she going to unrecorded oregon is she going to die?

io9: Lastly, you’ve evidently been successful tv and movie for a agelong clip and had an unthinkable career. Streaming is simply a comparatively caller happening and I cognize you’ve had a mates of different shows already, but what position bash you person astir moving with Apple and releasing the shows weekly?

Yost: I mean, I emotion that they merchandise them the mode they bash due to the fact that I emotion my cranky friends going, “I can’t ticker more?” It’s like, “What did you bash the past 60 years? You would hold each week” … But, I deliberation that there’s adjacent much of an impetus to have, if not cliffhangers, thing that gets the audience, for deficiency of a amended term, leaning forward. What’s happening now? And that’s fun. And that’s, to me, aged clip structure. I person watched shows and I’ve enjoyed them wherever they conscionable look to benignant of end. It’s astir arsenic if did a 10-hour movie and they conscionable arbitrarily chopped it into 10 parts. This is not that. We truly operation each occurrence to enactment successful and of itself, astatine the aforesaid clip mounting up thing for the adjacent week.

io9: Well, I deliberation it’s 1 of the large enigma shows of the past mates of years. I truly bask it.

Yost: Oh, thanks, man. That’s wherefore I got progressive with. It’s a large mystery.

The archetypal play of Silo is present connected Apple TV+. It’s awesome. Season 2 begins November 15.

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