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Silo: Season 2 – TV Review

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TL;DR – The sophomore season suffers from some significant pacing issues, but when it clicks together, it is like no other.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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

Juliette Lives.

Silo Review –

As it is the end of the year, it is time to catch up with all the shows that I didn’t get a chance to finish during the year, and the first on my list is Silo. Conceptually, I love this show, the brooding treatise on humanity, control, and rebellion. However, I dropped out halfway through. Well, today, I go back to see why.

So, to set the scene, after being set up by Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) and Robert Sims (Common), Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) was forced to go outside and ‘clean’ in the season finale. However, thanks to some work from Martha Walker (Harriet Walter), Juliette’s suit was fitted with tape that actually worked so that the poisonous air would not leak in. It is here that she discovers not only is there still a barren, poisoned world on the surface, but their Silo is not the only one. Not knowing how long the tape will last, she runs to the next Silo over, only to discover thousands of dead bodies spilled across the ground. But there is no time to wait as she escapes death by entering a dead silo. Now, from here, we will be looking at the season as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.

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Silo: The Engineer – TV Review

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TL;DR – The episode where Rebecca Ferguson gets stuff done.   

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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

Juliette walks across the surface.

Silo Review –

I was unsure what to expect when the first episode of Silo, Freedom Day, dropped. I had not read the original novels by Hugh Howey, so when we went down the rabbit hole that was the mystery of the Silo, I was captivated by which turns the show would make. Now that we have seen the first season, I am even more fascinated by where the show can go from here. Well, after a long wait, it is time to see just what they will do as we dive back underground and see what waits in store for us.

So, to set the scene, after being set up by Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) and Robert Sims (Common), Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) was forced to go outside and ‘clean’ in the season finale. However, thanks to some work from Martha Walker (Harriet Walter), Juliette’s suit was fitted with tape that actually worked so that the poisonous air would not leak in. It is here where she discovers not only is there still a barren, poisoned world on the surface, but their Silo is not the only one. Not knowing how long the tape will last, she runs to the next Silo over, only to discover thousands of dead bodies spilled across the ground. Now, from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.

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