TL;DR – After some meandering around, we start making a run to the end of the season.   

Disclosure – I paid for the Apple TV+ service that viewed this series.

Silo Review –

When we last reviewed Silo with Truth, it was setting up this world of mystery and intrigue, and then it proceeded to meander around for the last couple of episodes, which was fine but didn’t quite capture me in the way those opening episodes did. Well, now we are at the pointy end of the season, and the plot has picked back up as we dive back under the surface to a world on the cusp of falling apart.

So to set the scene, in The Flamekeepers, Juliette Nichols discovers that a group of people have tried to keep information from before the rebellion. With a secret book that shows that the is/was a world outside of the Silo, and it was full of expansive beauty. Alas, Juliette did not notice that the flowers had been removed from her mirror, so now Robert Sims (Common) and the others also know that she knows. But as she tries to find out who is moving people from behind the scenes, Juliette discovers that Judge Meadows (Tanya Moodie) might not be the villain she expected her to be. Now from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead. 

This episode feels like it is a race for containment. Juliette is trying to find enough information about the conspiracy to go public or at least put her in front of what is coming. While the scheme members are trying to work out just how much she knows and how much they need to do to stop the damage Juliette has done to their cause. This back and-forth where each plays the role of cat and mouse was an interesting dynamic to watch through the episode, with both sides getting the upper hand at times.

I have quite liked the use of flashback material in Silo because it never feels superfluous. We knew about the magnifying lens before, but we now get context as to why Juliette’s mother needed it while also increasing the mystery of why magnification is one of the two big nos under The Pact. It also gave a touch more context to the relationship between Juliette and her father, Pete (Iain Glen), allowing a reconnection that felt justified. It also helps that it allows us to see another section of the Silo, and I love all the little hints as to just how expansive the biosphere is down there.

What this episode ends on is a big reveal that Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) is actually the man behind the curtain pulling the strings. The reveal that he slipped up and said ‘hard drive’ felt a bit forced. However, the idea that he would be the real big bad makes sense when you think about needing IT backing to have all those monitoring systems working. It also let Tim Robbins revel as a complete villain, which was nice to see.

While it is clear that a lot of this episode was moving people into place for the big climatic end of the season, by having members of IT, Medical, and Mechanical start to question the authority that they are working under. It also ended on a very frustrating note. After Juliette gets tricked into being captured by Bernard, she is marched up to the top as both of them claim that Juliette said she wanted to go outside. A lie, one they have clearly used before, but also one that probably won’t work for everyone who knew Juliette. While you are wondering how she will get out of this, Juliette deciding that people need to know about the hard drive, grabs her bag and takes a dive off the side of the central staircase, and we cut to black. Ending the show on Did she? or Did she not just commit suicide? Felt like a really tacky moment that left a bad taste in my mouth.  

In the end, do we recommend Silo: Hanna? Well. Look, I think it ended on a very poor note. However, up to that point, it had been one of the stronger episodes this season, and at the very least, I think we have dramatically moved towards the endgame today.          

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Credits – All images were created by the cast, crew, and production companies of Silo
Directed by – Adam Bernstein
Written by – Jeffery Wang & Ingrid Escajeda
Created by – Graham Yost
Based On – Silo by Hugh Howey
Production/Distribution Companies – Nemo Films, AMC Studios & Apple TV+
Starring – Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash & Tim Robbins  with Sophie Thompson, Sienna Guillory, Remmie Milner, Caitlin Zoz, Christian Ochoa & Iain Glen  and Simon Armstrong, Amelie Child-Villiers, Helene Maksoud, Jacqueline Berces, Paul Herzberg & Liam Akpan