A Major Update About ‘Silo’ Season 3 On Apple TV+

Silo just wrapped up its much different season 2 last week, one which divorced its main character, Juliette, from the rest of the cast for the entire season. Now, it turns out that season 3 is going to be even more different than both previous seasons, according to showrunner Graham Yost.

I was surprised to see that the two characters in the final few minutes of the episode were announced to have their actors return as series regulars, Ashley Zukerman as Daniel and Jessica Henwick as Helen. Now we know why, a huge chunk of season 3 is going to be set far before the destruction that leads to life in the Silos. Here’s showrunner Graham Yost via TVLine:

“In the book Shift (the second one, part of which will be adapted for season 3), Juliette doesn’t appear until the last page, right? It’s about this silo (No. 18) but it’s also the origin story of the whole Silo project.”

But don’t worry about a Rebecca Ferguson-free season:

“I would say that we have Rebecca Ferguson playing Juliette, and she is not just going to be in the last scene of the season.”

All of this may not be news to fans of the original books, but it seems that things will be changed somewhat significantly if Juliette is still going to have a major storyline when she really didn’t during this part of the source material.

What we know so far based on the final scene of season 2 is that Iran set off some sort of dirty bomb in the US, which the characters seem to be treating as a sort of 9/11 (I’m sure many, many people died), and now the question is how the US will respond. Obviously the response…leads to something disastrous, but we don’t yet know if just this area has been destroyed near the Silos or if its truly the entire world. But 300 years later, it’s still not safe to go out.

It’s unclear what sort of weapon would linger for that long. The nuclear bombs we have in present day should not have insta-death effects that last centuries, but given how the Silo members die outside, it does not seem like its radiation that’s killing them (though clearly the Iran bomb was radioactive, as per the scans to get into the bar in the last scene). Is it some sort of biological weapon? And yet the landscape is actually destroyed with some sort of bombing, it seems. Confusing. Maybe the AI is simply killing all of them on purpose somehow as they leave.

It will certainly be a huge departure for the show to spend a lot of time way in the past to explain all this. The show has not followed the pattern of one book per season. There are three books, and it’s been confirmed that it will take four seasons to finish the show. As we can see, we’re just really getting into the second book now. And I think most fans cannot wait.

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