Ashley Zukerman (Succession, Fear Street trilogy) and Jessica Henwick (Huntington, The Royal Hotel) have joined the series regular cast of the Apple TV+ series Silo for Season 3.
Zukerman will star as ‘Daniel,’ a young and hungry congressman, and Henwick as ‘Helen,’ a whip-smart reporter.
From creator and showrunner Graham Yost, Silo is the story of the last ten thousand people on Earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. However, no one knows when or why the silo was built, and any who try to find out face fatal consequences.
Rebecca Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer, who seeks answers about a loved one’s murder and tumbles into a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to discover that if the lies don’t kill you, the truth will.
Silo is produced by Apple Studios and based on the novels by Hugh Howey. The series is executive produced by Yost, Howey and Ferguson, alongside Morten Tyldum who also directs. Nina Jack, Fred Golan, Rémi Aubuchon, Michael Dinner, Joanna Thapa, and AMC exec produced Season 2.
Zukerman is repped by Aligned Entertainment, Gersh, Lisa Mann Creative Management in Australia and Felker, Toczek, Suddleson, Abramson Esq. Henwick is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen.
Exciting news for fans of the hit series “Silo”! Ashley Zukerman and Jessica Henwick have officially joined the cast for Season 3.
Zukerman, known for his roles in “Manhattan” and “Fear the Walking Dead,” will be playing a mysterious new character who shakes up the dynamics of the Silo community. Meanwhile, Henwick, best known for her roles in “Iron Fist” and “Game of Thrones,” will be taking on the role of a determined and resourceful survivor who must navigate the challenges of life in the Silo.
With these two talented actors on board, Season 3 of “Silo” is sure to be full of twists, turns, and surprises. Stay tuned for more updates as production gets underway! #SiloSeason3 #AshleyZukerman #JessicaHenwick
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.”
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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.
Exciting news for fans of the hit Apple TV+ series ‘Silo’! A major update has been announced about the upcoming season 3, and it’s sure to have fans buzzing with anticipation.
After much speculation and anticipation, it has been confirmed that ‘Silo’ season 3 is officially in the works and set to premiere later this year. The critically acclaimed sci-fi drama has captured audiences with its gripping storyline, complex characters, and stunning visuals, and fans can’t wait to see what the next installment has in store.
Creator and showrunner, Sarah Jones, has teased that season 3 will delve deeper into the mysteries of the Silo, the enigmatic underground society at the center of the series. Expect more twists, turns, and revelations as our favorite characters navigate the dangerous world they inhabit.
The cast and crew of ‘Silo’ have been hard at work bringing this new season to life, and they promise that it will be worth the wait. Stay tuned for more updates and behind-the-scenes sneak peeks as production continues.
Get ready to embark on another thrilling journey into the world of ‘Silo’ when season 3 premieres on Apple TV+ later this year. Don’t miss out on all the action, drama, and suspense that this groundbreaking series has to offer. Stay tuned for more updates and mark your calendars for the highly anticipated return of ‘Silo’!
Season two threw Juliette Nichols a curveball that proved Rebecca Ferguson can project a ferocious energy even when she’s not climbing and falling and grunting. Photo: Rekha Garton/Apple TV+
Silo is perfectly okay B-grade science-fiction grub, though it has the distinction of being strangely bloodless, literally and metaphorically. Sure, it can be violent, and people die, but there’s a robotic sheen to the Apple TV+ series, which adapts Hugh Howey’s postapocalyptic novels set in a world where humanity is thought to be whittled down to just tens of thousands of people living in massive underground silos. Even when characters curse —and they do like to say “fuck” a lot! — the utterance feels superfluous, like they’re saying it because that’s what people are supposed to shout when they’re pissed.
Not so with Rebecca Ferguson, who stars and serves as executive producer on Silo. As Juliette Nichols, a mechanical whiz turned sheriff who quickly discovers that nothing is as it seems, she injects so much electricity into the air that she could light up a small town. The second-season finale has a moment when she yells, “Be angry at the motherfuckers who built this place and put us in it!!,” and she goes so hard you can feel the walls vibrate. Ferguson is an absolute beast, and the way she commits to Nichols results in fleeting moments where Silo suddenly becomes kind of great.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Ferguson give a performance that’s anything short of hilariously intense. This is no complaint. In the Mission: Impossible franchise, she plays Ilsa Faust, an impossibly cool femme fatale who stares holes into walls and whose grand introduction involves steadying a sniper rifle with one of her very long legs. Dune: Part Two finds Ferguson’s Lady Jessica skulking around caves as she mutters about the glorious future to her unborn fetus, freaking out the people around her. One of her best characters is Rose the Hat, the leader of a psychic-vampire cult in Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep, in which she wears a top hat and utters her signature phrase — “Hi there” — with tectonic severity. Ferguson even brings intensity to the late-night circuit: Here she is walking onto Fallon carrying a Dyson vacuum like a Swedish Terminator; here she is on Colbert and Meyers, giving genial dominatrix as she constantly breaks the flow of conversation to establish control.
So it is with Silo, which channels Ferguson’s inimitable ferocity to its own benefit, and ours. It helps that the showgives her plenty of physical work to do. The first season made her spelunk in the silo’s depths as she looked for answers. She climbs pipes, shimmies up ropes, falls from tall places, and all the while, Ferguson augments these sequences with a cacophony of grunts and guttural screams that locks you into the reality of the universe. She gets even more physical labor to do in Silo’s second season, with Nichols navigating a seemingly abandoned neighboring silo for material to help her return home: more pipes, more ropes, more falls, more grunts, more yells. At some point, you might start to wonder this: Why doesn’t anybody else in the cast have to do such grueling tasks? Nichols is almost always alone when facing these physical challenges, but it never gets old because Ferguson sells the difficulty of these tasks so well. Watch her eyes study the world around her; that conscious sense of looking gives a tangible quality to the surrounding set.
Season two also threw her character a curveball that proved Ferguson can project a ferocious energy even when she’s not climbing and falling and grunting. With Nichols sequestered from the rest of the established cast, Silo locks Ferguson into a nearly season-long two-hander with Steve Zahn, who plays Solo, a man she discovers in the new vault who she later learns has been alone since he was a child. This makes Solo an interesting foil for Nichols, a whimpering man-child to her hypercompetent and quiet loner. As you would expect from Zahn, he’s great at drawing sympathy from a character that initially tracks as pathetic, but you do still want to slap him in the face. So does Nichols, and the dynamic that emerges between the two is pretty compelling to watch. Nichols, an alpha who understands she can’t just bulldoze Solo into giving her what she needs, shifts between trying to connect and reason with him as she grows increasingly desperate. Again, there’s a striking physicality to how Ferguson holds her body in contrast to Zahn’s Solo: She’s so tightly wound while he’s loosey-goosey, having spent most of his life behind a locked door not having to worry much about what’s happening outside. It’s a fun give-and-take that adds a real spark to an otherwise stolid show.
Not that Silo is bad, necessarily. The show has a few quirks that generally add to its watchability. Tim Robbins, Oscar winner, plays the head of the silo’s IT department who by the end of the first season becomes mayor, turns out to be the secret baddie, and ends the second season in near madness after discovering that he never had any control over his fate in the vault. Harriet Walter, whom you might remember as the very British mother to the three main Roy children in Succession, plays her character with a very American twang. Common is also on the show, hard at work pulling off the one lone facial expression he seems to know how to do as Sims, the heavy in charge of maintaining order in the underground society. Many of the younger actors are good-looking in a generic sort of way. It’s just unfortunate that so much of the rest of the show feels like a SyFy series given an Apple TV+ glow-up. There’s lot of rich ideas baked into its premise of a society built on literal class strata segmented according to work functions, with bits in there about the nature of societal control, fascism, and the spark of rebellion, but it generally doesn’t explore its moral and philosophical questions in ways that are thorny or difficult. For a show set in a dangerous world, the whole thing feels suspiciously chill. Except, of course, for Ferguson, whose core gift is being devoid of any chill, and we’re all the better for it.
Rebecca Ferguson has proven time and time again that she is a force to be reckoned with on screen. Her performance in the film Silo is no exception. Ferguson’s ability to fully embody her character and bring a level of intensity and depth to her role is truly captivating.
In Silo, Ferguson plays a strong, determined character who is faced with challenging circumstances. Her ability to bring a sense of vulnerability and strength to the role is what makes her portrayal so compelling. Ferguson’s commitment to her character shines through in every scene, making her performance truly unforgettable.
When Ferguson goes hard in Silo, the results are nothing short of mesmerizing. Her ability to fully commit to the emotional and physical demands of her character is what sets her apart as a truly gifted actress. Ferguson’s performance in Silo is a testament to her talent and dedication to her craft.
In conclusion, Rebecca Ferguson’s performance in Silo is a true testament to her talent and ability as an actress. When she goes hard in her roles, the results are truly unforgettable. Ferguson’s portrayal in Silo is a prime example of why she is considered one of the best in the industry.
The Silo Season 2 finale had multiple threads to follow, most of which led to more questions than answers. So let’s unpack what answers we do have, and speculate on what might be coming in Season 3.
From the fate of Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) and Bernard (Tim Robbins) to that weird pre-apocalypse flashback, we’ve broken down the finale below.
Multiple cliffhangers, plus an unexpected flashback!
Like the second season as a whole, the finale jumps between key characters like Juliette, Bernard, Lukas (Avi Nash), Shirley (Remmie Milner), Knox (Shane McRae), and Sims (Common). As rioters finally reach the top of the silo, hellbent on getting answers from Bernard, they see Juliette reappear on the camera outside and warn them not to come out. But as she runs down the stairs towards the airlock she’s met by Bernard, coming the other way with a gun. The two of them discuss how to save the silo from the ominous safeguard procedure (more on that below), before they find themselves trapped between the airlock doors as fire engulfs them.
Elsewhere, Sims visits the vault after confronting Lukas. The same robotic voice that spoke to Lukas in the tunnel addresses Sims, agreeing with his statement that he “wants to save the silo” before telling him and his son to leave the vault. “Camille can stay,” the voice says, referring to Sims’ wife (Alexandria Riley).
Finally, we have a flashback in which two people meet for a date in a bar, before the days of the silo. It eventually becomes clear that the man is a Congressman and the woman is a journalist, trying to get answers from him about a possible “radiological attack on the Unites States.” Eventually he leaves, but not before giving her a gift he picked up on a whim from a nearby store: what appears to be the same duck-shaped Pez dispenser that appears as a “relic” in Silo Season 1. Intriguing!
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So what is the safeguard procedure?
It was a major question in Season 2, episode 9, and in the finale we finally get the answer. When Juliette encounters Bernard leaving the silo, their conversation makes it clear that the safeguard is a way for someone outside the silo to pump in poison.
“There’s no point what you’re trying to do: Save them. It’s out of your hands, it was never in your hands, in my hands, in anyone’s hands,” says Bernard.
“Because of the poison they can pump in?” responds Juliette.
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“You know about that?”
“I know about that. But I don’t know who’d do it, and I don’t know why.”
“I know the who. But I don’t know why and I don’t fucking care.”
Presumably the “who” is the owner of the voice that threatens Lukas with the safeguard in episode 9. But who exactly that owner is — whether some kind of sentient AI or ultimate Head of IT — will be a question for Season 3.
What will happen to Sims and his family?
The voice in the vault that responds to Robert Sims claims to want to save the silo, too — but how do we know if it’s telling the truth? On the one hand, you could argue that it surely wouldn’t even engage with Sims if it didn’t want to save the silo. On the other, we know that Juliette has a plan in place for stopping the safeguard. Maybe the poison takes time to pump in? Perhaps the owner of the voice is aware of this, and is planning to use Sims’ family to stop Juliette from getting in the way of its plans?
One thing that does seem likely, though, is that the owner of the voice intends to work with Camille Sims, rather than her husband. Maybe, based on its observations of the silo, it thinks she’s the more capable family member?
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Will Juliette and Bernard survive the fire?
Juliette and Bernard aren’t in a great spot at the end of Season 2, and that’s putting it mildly. As the airlock doors closes Bernard throws himself to the ground, and when the fire starts pouring into the cramped chamber Juliette does the same. But is there any way either of them can have survived that?
Well, maybe. Let’s not forget that Juliette is actually wearing a fire suit. Although she’s not as quick to duck down as Bernard, that should offer her some protection.
If either of them is going to die, Bernard seems the most likely. He drops to the floor quickly, but that may not be enough to save him — especially now that he’s no longer the show’s main villain.
What’s the deal with that flashback?
From all the clues we’re given, it seems fairly obvious that the flashback at the end of Season 2 is meant to take us back to the silo’s origin. The Congressman is from Georgia, for starters, and it’s heavily implied that this is where the silos are located (the travel book relic from Season 1 references Georgia, for instance, and the skyline beyond the silo resembles that of Atlanta).
The scene we witness also implies that the threat of war is looming, or possibly already here. The Congressman has to pass a radiation checker before he enters the bar, there’s talk of a dirty bomb and a threat from Iran, and there’s the journalist’s mention of a possible “radiological attack”. The silos may be already under construction at this point, for all we know. Perhaps the Congressman even has knowledge of the project.
So, will we see these people again? Will Season 3 be peppered with flashbacks that tell the silos’ origin story? At this point it’s impossible to say, but it certainly seems possible. Maybe the journalist will end up being one of silo 18’s first occupants — the Pez dispenser certainly hints at this — and maybe, just maybe, the Congressman will be revealed as one of the fabled founders.
If you’ve been following the thrilling sci-fi series Silo, you were probably left scratching your head at the jaw-dropping ending of Season 2. Fear not, as we break down the twisty conclusion and unravel its mysteries.
Throughout the season, we watched as our protagonist, Dr. Sarah Lee, struggled to uncover the truth behind the mysterious silo facility and its nefarious experiments. As she delved deeper into the secrets hidden within its walls, she discovered shocking revelations about the true nature of the facility’s operations.
In the final episode, it is revealed that the silo is actually a front for a top-secret government project aimed at creating superhuman soldiers through genetic manipulation. The experiments conducted on the test subjects were meant to enhance their physical and mental abilities, turning them into living weapons.
However, Dr. Lee soon realizes that the experiments have gone horribly wrong, resulting in the creation of unstable and dangerous mutants. As chaos ensues within the facility, Dr. Lee must race against time to shut down the project and prevent a catastrophic disaster.
But just when it seems like she has succeeded, a shocking twist is revealed – Dr. Lee herself is a genetically engineered superhuman, created by the same project she sought to destroy. Her memories were altered, and she was implanted with false beliefs to serve as a pawn in the government’s twisted game.
As the season ends on a cliffhanger, we are left wondering what lies ahead for Dr. Lee and the other test subjects. Will they be able to escape the clutches of their creators and forge their own destinies? Or will they be hunted down like lab rats, forever trapped in a cycle of experimentation and manipulation?
One thing is for certain – Silo Season 2’s ending has set the stage for an explosive and unpredictable third season. With its mind-bending twists and heart-pounding action, this series continues to push the boundaries of science fiction storytelling. Stay tuned for more thrilling adventures in the world of Silo.
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There was a moment in last week’s Silo episode that, to me, exemplified everything remarkable about Rebecca Ferguson’s performance this season. It happens when Eater — sorry, I mean “Hope” — is telling her sad origin story to Juliette while they’re rummaging through apartments, looking for clues that might lead them to the Vault’s door code. Juliette is not unsympathetic to Hope’s hard past, and yet … she really doesn’t have time for this. And her face — especially her eyes — reflects it. Juliette is in a state of perpetual anxious distraction, even as the other person in the room is pouring her heart out.
This has been the mode Ferguson has played Juliette in all season, whether the character is managing Jimmy’s erratic behavior or she’s trying to talk the Silo 17 scavengers into letting her complete her mission. Some actors tend to play moments, focusing only on the scene in front of them and not what came before. Not Ferguson. Her Juliette carries the weight of season one with her into season two, and as soon as she hears from Jimmy that Silo 18 is in danger of utter social collapse and potential slaughter, Ferguson never stops playing the character’s desperate sense of urgency. She has to get back immediately. She needs everyone in Silo 17 to stop wasting her time.
The Silo finale is an intense, action-packed affair, mostly dealing with exactly the kind of mayhem in Silo 18 that Juliette has been dreading. The episode builds to an unexpected climax and a brutal cliffhanger before ending with a “whoa” coda that comes seemingly out of nowhere. Ferguson deserves a lot of credit for putting some smaller, more emotional, more human notes into a heady mix. Sometimes, genre TV shows rely too much on characters just shouting the stakes at the audience and expecting us to care. But it’s easy to feel Juliette’s worry. She doesn’t need to say much.
Most of the Juliette scenes in this episode have to do with her preparing to leave while also coming to terms with what might await her in Silo 18. Jimmy has a convenient flash of memory about what “the Safeguard” is, recalling that his parents figured out how to prevent a mass extermination-causing gas pipe from doing what it was designed to do during a rebellion. Jimmy also — sweetly — tests out the air-tightness of Juliette’s excursion suit after his father’s suit turns out to be riddled with holes. The two of them share a couple of awkward attempts at hugging as she explains that she can’t promise she’ll return but that she’ll sure try.
I’d argue that Juliette’s exasperation with Jimmy and the other Silo 17 dwellers throughout the season is what makes her gestures of kindness in the finale so touching. She never loses her focus on urgently getting back to Silo 18. But she does recognize that the people she’s met in Silo 17 need something from her before she goes, and she tries to give it to them. That’s how she gets “Eater” to reveal her real name.
This partly inspires a rousing speech, which happens after Audrey once again blames Hope for something going wrong. Juliette tells everyone that with the Vault open, they have the resources to live together, while back in Silo 18, everyone Juliette loves — including her father — could be on the verge of dying, if not dead already. “Look at all you have,” she says, adding, “Be angry with each other, not at each other.”
Juliette’s anxiety over what’s happening back home intensifies when Silo 17 shakes from a huge boom outside. The source of that sound? A devastating explosion — triggered by Juliette’s own father, working with Mechanical — which has destroyed two whole levels of stairs.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. It’s hard not to, given that so much of what happens in Silo 18 this week consists of lurching reversals, where what’s happening proves to be part of larger plans we weren’t privy to.
Let’s take the big plot twists and character beats one by one:
Walker: For the first half of the episode, we see the rebels continuing to discuss their plans in Walker’s apartment, where we know a hidden camera is broadcasting everything to Bernard. Walker seemingly suffers a major embarrassment when the whole crew is arrested and she’s thanked in front of them (and her ex-wife!) for her service. But then! While meeting with Bernard, Walker reveals that people in Mechanical have a sign language they use to communicate over the clamor of the generator. It turns out that she’s been secretly keeping Knox informed about what’s been going on the whole time.
Billings: After Bernard tells the deputies that the sheriff is responsible for leading the rebellion, they have him arrested and construct a makeshift jail in a cafeteria, as instructed. But then! The deputies, as they had planned all along, free Billings and the rebels after turning in their badges en masse.
Knox: The rebels, led by Knox, announce their intention to distract the raiders until they can wire up an explosive, which they will then detonate, trapping the raiders in the Down Deep and forcing Bernard to negotiate. All of this goes according to plan. But then! Patrick Kennedy convinces a large subset of the rebels that before Juliette went out, he saw an image of a verdant green landscape outside. He wants them all to leave the silo, potentially triggering the Safeguard.
Lukas and Sims: Having learned about the Safeguard from the tunnel’s mysterious voice (identified in the captions as “the Algorithm”), Lukas believes everyone in Silo 18 is doomed. He resigns his shadowship and goes to spend his final hours with his mom. But then! Bernard makes Robert Sims the new shadow and gives him the code to the Vault, which Lukas encourages Sims to go see while there’s still time. When Sims’s family enters, the Algorithm greets them and is reassured to hear that they want to save Silo 18. But then (again)! The Algorithm tells Robert and his son to leave the room so the voice can talk to Camille.
Bernard:Convinced the Safeguard is about to be deployed, Bernard grabs his own secret suit. He sits alone and stews for a while, with a gun in his hand. But then! On the view screens, everyone sees Juliette walking into the crater, where she symbolically cleans the camera before raising this warning sign: “NOT SAFE DO NOT COME OUT.”
I don’t want to give the impression that Juliette is responsible for all the emotional and exciting moments in this finale. Her dad has a strong scene, handing his watch to Deputy Hank to pass along to Juliette before Dr. Pete completes his suicide mission and blows up the stairs. The scene where Walker reveals that she duped Bernard is a humdinger, too, including the moment when she counts down to the explosion … and nothing happens. (The bomb detonates a few seconds later after Bernard sarcastically says, “That was dramatic.”)
But Juliette anchors the episode in the moving scenes in Silo 17 and in the gripping final moments. Juliette struggles to open the Silo 18 door with a crowbar, only to see the door open at Bernard’s command … and then to see Bernard waiting at the bottom of the stairs, all suited up and carrying his gun. They talk briefly about what the Safeguard is, why it might be deployed, and by whom. (Bernard: “I know who, but I don’t know why, and I don’t fucking care.” Juliette: “I think I figured something out.”) Then Juliette wrestles them both into the airlock before it closes. The season ends with them facing possible doom from the airlock’s cleansing wall of fire.
Dramatic, right? The season could’ve ended there, and Silo fans would still be talking about the implications during the long offseason.
Instead, we get one more scene, set in Washington, D.C. (!), in what looks to be close to our present day (!!). There, a freshman Georgia congressman is on a date with a Post reporter that turns into an opportunity for her to grill him about a recent Iranian dirty-bomb explosion and whether the U.S. plans to retaliate. The scene is fascinating and entertaining and gains in resonance when the congressman abruptly leaves after giving the reporter a cheap gift he picked up at a convenience store. It’s the rubber duck Pez dispenser that will later be a relic in Silo 18.
How does a novelty candy end up in a postapocalyptic bunker hundreds of years later? That tale must wait until season three, alas.
I might be as jittery and preoccupied as Juliette until then.
• How many days passed between the moment Juliette stepped out of Silo 18 and the moment she returned? With no sun underground to track the passing of days, it’s hard to nail it down precisely. (And, of course, Juliette was passed out for a while with an infection.) If I had to venture a guess, I’d say this season covered maybe a week?
• Jimmy’s Vault contains so many wonders: pop-up books, nature recordings, canned pineapple. It’s important to remember, too, that Juliette has never been in Silo 18’s Vault and has never seen so many relics in one place. Once again, I hail Rebecca Ferguson, who subtly conveys the character’s fascination with all this stuff — while also showing how Juliette won’t let it become a distraction.
• And that wraps Silo season two, folks! There seemed to be more buzz around the show this year, which I hope carries over into a season three that — based on this episode’s coda — should be wild.
Silo Recap, Season 2, Episode 10: ‘Into the Fire’
In the thrilling season finale of Silo, tensions reach a boiling point as our beloved characters face their greatest challenge yet. As the power struggle within the community intensifies, alliances are tested and sacrifices must be made.
The episode opens with a harrowing confrontation between the rival factions, with each side vying for control of the precious resources needed for survival. As the stakes grow higher, loyalties are questioned and betrayals are revealed.
Meanwhile, our protagonist, Sarah, finds herself caught in the middle of the chaos as she struggles to protect her loved ones and navigate the treacherous landscape of the silo. Will she be able to find a way out of the fire unscathed, or will she be consumed by the flames of conflict?
As the episode comes to a dramatic close, viewers are left on the edge of their seats, eagerly anticipating the next chapter in the gripping saga of Silo. Tune in next season to see how our heroes will rise from the ashes and forge a new path forward in the face of adversity.
Warning: Major spoilers for the Silo Season 2 finale ahead.
Silo, based on the books by Hugh Howey and created for television by Graham Yost, has become one of the crown jewels of Apple TV+, recently earning a two-season renewal for Seasons 3 and 4 (the latter of which is set to be the show’s final installment). The compelling sci-fi series follows the lives of those living in the “silo,” a mysterious underground structure inhabited by 10,000 people. They know they’ve lived there for over 100 years, but not how they got there, why, or what lies beyond its walls.
When the Season 2 finale, “Into the Fire,” written by Aric Avellino and directed by Amber Templemore, releases Jan. 17, it’s bound to leave fans with more questions than answers. Over Zoom, Yost discussed the shocking finale, including three major scenes at the very end, the especially surprising final sequence that could change everything, and what to expect from Season 3.
Tim Robbins as Bernard in the Season 2 finaleCourtesy of Apple
In the Season 2 finale, the silo has been plunged into chaos. Ever since Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) went outside in the Season 1 finale and went over the hill, uncertainty has been brewing: Is there life outside the silo? Has everything been a lie? Juliette has become a symbol of truth and hope for the citizens of the silo, and those who believe she is still alive have united to fight for their freedom. They’ve had enough, and they’re ready to leave—completely unaware of the devastation that awaits them outside.
As the silo faces an all-out war, Juliette has spent Season 2 in the neighboring Silo 17 but is finally ready to return to her original silo after finding the materials to fix her suit. Juliette has also uncovered the secret of the safeguarding procedures, a remotely-accessed poison that’s capable of decimating every life in the silo with barely a second thought. Juliette sets out to return to her silo (number 18) to warn everyone about going outside, and to find a way to shut down the safeguard.
Before things go in a shocking direction, the finale has some big plans for Camille (Alexandria Riley). Her husband Robert Sims (Common) leads her and their son to the vault, but the all-knowing voice says only Camille can stay—despite Sims’ endless dedication to the silo, he is not deemed the best person to be the next head of IT.
That’s a big move for a show that didn’t even conceive of Camille as a character until late in Season 1. “Writer and director Aric Avellino and I were in a jam on Episode 9 of Season 1,” recalls Yost. They were trying to find a place for Juliette to hide out. They settled on Sims’ house, which led them to think further about his life, leading to the creation of Camille, Sims’ wife. While the show follows the Howey novels fairly closely, things develop differently; genders are flipped, and deaths happen in different ways. “I think you owe the audience some new stuff. You can’t be just a slavish or a direct translation from page to screen,” Yost says. “Then we got Alexandria Riley, and it was like “Oh my god, she’s good, let’s write for her,” he explains. Riley’s impressive performance led to an expanded role in Season 2, and according to Yost, the decisions she made in Season 2 impressed the all-knowing, all-listening voice that has chosen her for greater things. “That presence detected something in her, a certain quality that would make her a great person to be—and the best person available—head of IT.”
Alexandria Riley and Common in Season 2 Episode 9Courtesy of Apple
The Season 2 finale barely gives the viewer any time to process this major development, as Juliette makes her long-awaited return to the silo. This emboldens the civilians who have taken control of the silo, shocked but hugely relieved to see Juliette approaching, to clean the camera—something she refused to do when leaving—thereby sowing the seeds of revolution. She holds up a warning to the people of the silo that it’s not safe to leave.
Before we can see their likely confused reactions, we see Juliette enter the walkway to the silo, only to be greeted by Bernard (Tim Robbins), the current mayor and head of IT, and by far the most powerful person in the silo. But Bernard is at his wits end and just wants to be free of the burden of leadership, one which has only worsened throughout Season 2. He’s no longer trusted, and the people of the silo want vengeance for a lifetime of lies. Bernard just wants to go outside and die. They briefly discuss the deadly safeguard procedures—Juliette doesn’t know who sets off the poison or why they do it, Bernard knows the who but not the why, “But I don’t f-cking care,” he tells her. “It never really mattered,” he adds, deflated. But Juliette may just have a solution to shut down the safeguard, which gives Bernard a glimmer of hope.
Before they can discuss it, the door back to the silo begins to shut. Juliette rushes in and Bernard races after her, saying she can’t go inside. They both wind up stuck inside the airlock, and fire begins to appear, soon submerging the entire airlock in violent flames. Juliette is thrown to the side, and the episode ends. Yost wouldn’t comment on the specific fates of Bernard or Juliette, but he was clear that the scene is a big deal: “One thing that this show made clear in Season 1 is, anyone could die. The fire is not good. And there are very serious consequences.”
A shocking coda changes everything
Sara Hazemi and Rebecca Ferguson in the Season 2 finaleCourtesy of Apple
Many creators would be satisfied to end a season on a major cliffhanger that puts the lives of its two biggest characters in jeopardy. But Silo saves its most shocking moment for something completely unexpected: A journey into the past, hundreds of years before silos even existed.
“One of the things I was looking forward to is going from the sound of fire in the airlock to rain over black. And having the audience just go ‘Sorry, what? Rain?’ There’s no rain in the silo,” Yost says. The effect is unsettling and completely unexpected. It’s almost like you’ve accidentally changed channels and are watching a different show—something Yost said a friend of his thought when watching the episode.
Just as the Season 1 finale amped up the stakes by expanding the show’s scale in revealing that there were dozens of other silos, the Season 2 finale expands the timeline of the show by throwing things back to the past. To Yost, the end of Season 1 was not a cliffhanger—”It was a step forward.” Similarly, he sees the Season 2 finale as another step forward, even if it’s going back in time. The final scene takes place in Washington, D.C., where two people we’ve never seen before, Daniel (Ashley Zukerman) and Helen (Jessica Henwick) are meeting for the first time at a bar.
As Yost explains, there was debate about whether to end with the flames or something different. “There were times when talking with Apple and others involved in the show: ‘Do we need this scene? Should we start Season 3 with that?’ We have Juliette in an airlock filled with fire and could go out there. That’s a conventional cliffhanger.” Instead, Yost wanted to take things in a whole new direction. “I wanted to establish that we’re going to see how this whole thing started.”
Daniel and Helen meet under the pretense of a date, but Dan is a congressman, and what journalist Helen really wants from him is information. She’s particularly interested in a “dirty bomb”—particularly, whether the rumors of one exploding in New Orleans are real, or merely fabricated to advance a war between America and Iran. Dan doesn’t answer, instead choosing to leave. It’s all vague, but it gives the viewer a chance to piece some details together: It was likely the bomb and the escalation of a war between America and Iran that led to the creation of the silos. “We wanted something where the audience goes, ‘Oh sh-t! Oh sh-t’ and that was the Pez. It’s not a cliffhanger, but it is a leaning-forward story moment,” says Yost.
About the Pez: Before Dan leaves, he gives Helen a gift. Helen opens the brown paper bag to reveal a Pez dispenser with a duck on top. She begins to smile, and the episode cuts to black, ending Season 2—for real this time. This isn’t just some random token of Dan’s appreciation, however. It’s the exact same Pez dispenser that’s found in the silo hundreds of years later, existing as a relic, a forbidden item and symbol of the past that normal civilians are not allowed to possess. The message is clear: However life in the silo began, these two played a part in it.
For those left confused by the sudden shift in the Season 2 finale, Yost offers assurance that we will get clarity on the beginning of the silos in the next season. “We get into the origin story, but we’re also deep into our silo world,” he says. There’ll also be more to learn about the dirty bomb. “In Season 3, we’ll find out what happened to Silo 17”—the silo Juliette spent the vast majority of this season in. “By the end of Season 3, you’ll know what happened to the people who went outside of 17, and the why and how of all of that. That’s a big thing that will get solved—and how the whole thing began.”
“One of the things I loved about the books,” Yost explains, “Is that Hugh [Howey] paced out the revealing of the answers to the mysteries, and we’re trying to keep to that too.” The audience finds out, as Juliette finds out. More mysteries are certain to be answered in the final two seasons—but we’ll have to wait and see if it’s still Juliette uncovering them.
Silo Season 2 has left fans on the edge of their seats with its intense plot twists and shocking revelations. In the final episode of the season, we finally see the culmination of all the drama that has been building up throughout the series.
Spoilers ahead
The season finale begins with the reveal that the mysterious organization behind the silo project is actually a government agency looking to control the population through mind control technology. As our main characters, Sarah and John, uncover this truth, they must race against time to stop the agency from carrying out their sinister plans.
In a heart-pounding climax, Sarah and John manage to infiltrate the agency’s headquarters and disable the mind control technology, freeing the people from its influence. However, their victory comes at a cost as John sacrifices himself to ensure the agency is permanently shut down.
The ending of Silo Season 2 is bittersweet, with Sarah mourning the loss of her partner but finding solace in knowing that they have saved countless lives from the agency’s manipulation. As she looks out over the now liberated city, she is filled with a sense of hope for the future.
Overall, the ending of Silo Season 2 is a satisfying conclusion to the gripping story that has kept viewers hooked from the beginning. It ties up loose ends while leaving room for future possibilities, making fans eager for what the next season has in store.
Avid fans of Apple TV+’s dystopian sci-fi series, “Silo,” have been hungering for answers as the survivors in Silo 18 braced for a rebellion amid myriad mounting mysteries while the addictive narrative winds down to a startling conclusion Jan. 17.
We can emphatically report that this ninth and penultimate episode of the sophomore season, “The Safeguard,” is a rich banquet of revelations that will substantially up the stakes for our characters and shake many of your beliefs regarding the true nature of this post-apocalyptic reality.
That’s perhaps an opaque declaration, but perfectly appropriate for this “mystery box” show created by ace Hollywood veteran Graham Yost (“Speed,” “Justified”).
There’s a lot to digest in this extra-long chapter so let’s loosen our belts and dive into Salvador Quinn’s letter that’s now been fully decoded. The translation allows Lukas Kyle to realize that silo life is all a rigged game and that he should “go to the very bottom of the silo. Find the tunnel. You will get confirmation there.”
Tim Robbins stars as Bernard Holland in “Silo” Season 2 (Image credit: Apple TV+)
Sharp memories will recall that this forgotten area of the silo is where Juliette would go to hook up with her boyfriend George Wilkins before his demise. She had actually dropped down there on a rope once but didn’t know that the water was only knee-deep. Now Lukas is at the very spot where the groundwater pumps exist and he takes a leap of faith and plops into the water to discover that he can stand.
From here he ventures further into a tunnel which ends in a circular vault door. Suddenly, a booming AI voice erupts like the Wizard of Oz. “Lukas Kyle, why are you here?” The AI tells him that only three people have ever made it that far: Salvador Quinn; Mary Meadows; and George Wilkins. It also warns that if he tells anyone about what he’s about to hear, “The Safeguard” will be initiated.
While that might sound comforting, we have a sneaking suspicion that it’s some sort of genocidal failsafe device engineered by The Founders. We never hear what info the AI imparts to him but whatever it is, it’s bound to be a dark truth that will rattle the silo to its core if ever leaked out.
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Earlier in the episode when Lukas brings the letter to Bernard, he learns there are not 50 silos, but 51, with that extra silo acting as a central control hub monitoring the happenings in each silo and taking lethal precautions in the event of dire emergencies. Who or what is inside that flagship silo is yet to be revealed and we will likely wait until season 3 to find out.
A 12-year-old Solo watches his father killed from Silo 17’s vault (Image credit: Apple TV+)
It’s important to remember that other than the IT Head and their shadows, silo citizens don’t know about the other network bunkers and think that they’re the last remnants of humanity protected from an external hellscape where nothing can live. Also vital to recall is Solo telling Juliette that Silo 17’s rebels survived outside until a “cloud came back,” which could be part of The Safeguard protocols triggered that killed them all.
Over in Silo 17, fans are treated to a full reveal of the three teens that attacked Solo and Juliette. They’re Audrey, Rick, and Eater, the offspring of survivors of the initial rebellion who never went outside. Audrey and Rick also have two children together, one of whom is an infant. It was their parents Solo possibly killed. This is why they kidnapped him and were trying to extract the vault code for food. But as it’s brought to light, Solo was actually the victim in all these happenings. As a kid, Solo watched the Sheriff shoot his IT Head father, Russell Conroy, after locking himself in the vault on his dad’s instructions to protect him.
Audrey’s and Rick’s folks were trying to get into the vault to gather food. The truth is that Solo, aka Jimmy Conroy, was shot years ago by those two adult intruders as he slept, then suffocated the attackers by trapping them in a room inside the vault while they pilfered food. These are the two corpses left outside the vault door. Scrawled numbers on the classroom blackboards that we believed were from Solo, were really them trying to guess the vault’s numerical code.
Stave Zahn stars as Solo in “Silo” Season 2 (Image credit: Apple TV+)
As all this is being unraveled, there’s a sublime emotional moment when Solo lays a hand on Juliette’s shoulder after he realizes she didn’t bolt from the silo after recovering her survival suit because she cared about his fate. It’s a beautifully acted scene that serves as yet another reminder of why this series is so revered. Solo understands that his mission to secure the vault is finally over and allows the teens and the two children access to the vault’s food supply, along with the wonders of The Legacy and all its collections of music, art, toys, and artifacts.
In Silo 18, Knox visits Walker to tell her of a new plan to use the remaining gunpowder, as sneaky Bernard watches and listens to the conversation from a hidden camera that Walker activated. It seems that Knox knows she’s the informant who ruined the supply room heist and he’s trying to flush her out, pretending to believe that Teddy’s mom is the snitch. Or is this all just a clever ruse?
Elsewhere, Billings and his spouse, Kathleen, are slowly becoming obsessed with knowing the truth about the outside world, as is Sims and his wife, Camille, who have now all seen the torn-out book page of a lush mountain scene. Sims wants immediate answers and vows to somehow snag Bernard’s Silo 18 key to the vault.
Alexandria Riley and Common star in “Silo” Season 2 (Image credit: Apple TV+)
So what is this mystery silo and are there overlords living inside it? Where do tunnels at the silo bottoms lead? What is The Safeguard and is this omniscient AI called The Algorithm reinforcing the rules of the silos? Will Lukas spill the beans about what he learns? And will Juliette head back over the hill before all hell breaks loose in Silo 18?
The end (and hopefully more answers) is nigh!
In the latest episode of Silo Season 2, titled “The Safeguard,” Solo finally gets a chance to redeem himself after his reckless actions in the previous episode. Meanwhile, Lukas stumbles upon a secret tunnel that could hold the key to their survival.
The episode kicks off with Solo being given a second chance by the group after he almost got them all killed on a supply run. Determined to make amends, Solo takes on a dangerous mission to retrieve much-needed medication from a nearby settlement. Despite facing numerous obstacles and enemies along the way, Solo manages to successfully complete the mission and earn back the trust of his fellow survivors.
Meanwhile, Lukas, always the curious one, stumbles upon a hidden tunnel that leads to an underground network of passageways. Intrigued by the discovery, Lukas decides to explore further, unaware of the dangers that may lie ahead.
As the episode unfolds, tensions rise within the group as they struggle to trust each other in the face of mounting threats from both the outside world and within their own ranks. With Solo’s redemption and Lukas’ discovery of the secret tunnel, the survivors must band together to navigate the treacherous new challenges that lie ahead.
Will Solo be able to fully earn back the trust of his companions? And what secrets will Lukas uncover in the mysterious underground tunnel? Tune in to the next episode of Silo Season 2 to find out.
While it was nice to mostly stay put in Silo 18 last week and watch Knox and Shirley storm up the staircase with the Down Deepers to commandeer ten extra floors (plus a food farm!) to prevent being starved out and captured for Meadows’ murder, we missed our favorite platonic post-apocalyptic couple in Silo 17, Juliette and Solo.
Sure, we did visit them for a minute or two to set up “Silo“‘s new chapter titled, “The Dive,” which will have anyone with a morbid fear of deep water running back to watch Frosty the Snowman cartoons before Father Time heralds in the new year.
But first, across the pitted landscape in Silo 18, Bernard pulls back the wizard’s curtain and allows his new shadow, Lukas Kyle, to enter the sacred vault room that’s the gateway to The Legacy. It’s a magnificent repository of cultural artifacts and record of known human history all housed in an elaborate library like a posh European museum. In addition to fine art paintings, leather-bound books, music recordings, glass-domed inventions, photographs, and a model of the solar system, the entire collection is stored digitally and linked to an advanced AI interface.
Behold the human history wonders of The Legacy! (Image credit: Apple TV+)
Key questions are answered here as Bernard explains what The Legacy is and what it contains. He tells Lukas that Silo 18 was built 352 years ago, but beyond that no information is available. It’s implied that Salvador Quinn’s complex letter code contains a secret potentially far more dangerous than a routine silo rebellion, and that it must be unravelled at any cost using the AI.
In attempting to decipher the code in Quinn’s mystery letter, Lukas guesses that it’s a numeric cipher and that a book was used to craft it. Each number corresponds to the appearance of a word on a specific page of a specific book. There were no matches in any of the books in The Legacy and so the book must have been an illegal relic located in the silo somewhere still. A book that’s more than 140 years old!
We now realize that Solo lived inside Silo 17’s own self-contained The Legacy vault, which explains his detailed knowledge of things like trapeze artists, circus animals, and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.”
Down below in Mechanical, Knox and Shirley create a gunpowder-launched propaganda bomb that they fire up to the Up Toppers containing strips of paper asking for answers about what happened to Juliette and how Judge Meadows really died. Power is immediately shut down except for in IT, causing more division and distrust between Bernard and the citizens.
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Bernard is feeling the pressure and starts putting the squeeze on Walker using Carla as leverage, not yet knowing Walker’s intimate relationship with the incarcerated Supply Manager. Bernard visits poor Carla in Judicial Seclusion to make a deal about how much gunpowder the Down Deepers are in possession of. She refuses until she’s told what happened to Knox, Shirley, and Walker but Bernard refuses. Later, Rick Amundsen shows Bernard video evidence that Walker and Carla still have a deep emotional bond, one that Bernard definitely intends to exploit.
Tim Robbins and Clare Perkins in “Silo” Season 2 (Image credit: Apple TV+)
In Silo 17, Juliette realizes that Solo is not going to return her survival suit and helmet until she helps him flip the power switch on the ground water pump that will halt the silo flooding. It won’t be easy since the switch is eight levels underwater. She’s not happy about being coerced but has no choice, so they rig a breathing tube apparatus for her tied to an escape line and bell for her to be reeled back in “like a fish.” But she must come up slow due to the risk of The Bends, a lethal decompression sickness where nitrogen bubbles form in the body’s tissues after being at depth. Solo explains that if she does exhibit symptoms, she can go back underwater at least 20 feet down until the symptoms dissipate. (Seems that info might come in handy later!)
Juliette takes the plunge and gets lowered down into the murky water wearing special weighted boots and glass goggles. The spectacular set design here is a spooky submerged nightmare of shifting shadows and decay frozen in time. Like exploring a hellish version of the infamous Titanic disaster, Juliette locates the pump switch and plugs the power cord in that activates the silo-saving pump.
Mission complete? Not quite! Juliette’s return rope gets cut and her air supply abruptly stops, requiring her to ascend fast… too fast. She recalls Solo’s description of swimming and employs that method of propulsion to reach the surface. When she pops up gasping, Solo is gone. She hustles up the stairs to find him but only discovers a hatchet that severed her return rope and a trail of fresh blood. From a balcony one level up, a shadowy figure is watching her!
Eagle-eyed fans with exceptional recall might remember that this is the second time Juliette’s swim rope was cut, as someone sliced it in this season’s first episode when she went into the water. Does Solo know who this person or people are that are trying to kill Julia? Probably, since he’s still reluctant to reveal his identity and knows a lot about working and breathing underwater, which also indicates that he’s been emotionally manipulating Juliette into taking the big plunge for him.
Rebecca Ferguson and Steve Zahn star in “Silo” Season 2 (Image credit: Apple TV+)
And don’t forget all those IT vault combination codes written on the classroom blackboard, showing that Solo was attempting to guess the correct sequence at some previous time, something the real IT’s shadow would have already known by heart. Remember how flustered he became when he couldn’t remember it when trying to get back inside earlier in the season?
The rebellion is growing. Bernard is flailing. Solo is not who he says he is. Quinn’s letter probably holds a horrid secret about how humanity became doomed. And Juliette just wants to get back to Silo 18 to prevent another disaster like Silo 17.
Series creator and showrunner Graham Yost (“Speed,” “Justified,” “Band of Brothers”) has really put his foot on the narrative gas in this seventh episode, confidently raising the stakes and revelations that will lead to the final three installments of this engrossing sophomore season. And with the recent news that AppleTV+ has ordered up two more seasons, Yost and his ace team will be able to do service to Hugh Howey’s source novels and finish up Juliette’s saga properly.
In the latest episode of Silo, tensions continue to rise as Juliette takes a risky plunge into the unknown. Meanwhile, Lukas makes a startling discovery as he views the vault of human history.
As Juliette finds herself faced with a difficult decision, she must decide whether to trust her instincts or follow the rules. Will she be able to navigate the treacherous waters ahead, or will she face dire consequences?
On the other hand, Lukas delves deeper into the mysteries of the vault of human history, uncovering secrets that could change everything. As he pieces together the puzzle of the past, he must confront the truth of his own existence and the implications it holds for the future.
With the stakes higher than ever, Silo Season 2 Episode 7 promises to be an intense and thrilling ride. Don’t miss out on the action and drama as our characters face their toughest challenges yet. Tune in to see how it all unfolds in this gripping episode of Silo.
I blame myself. From the moment I saw there was a Silo episode coming titled “The Book of Quinn” — after so many episodes where the mysterious Salvador Quinn’s name had been dropped with a mix of awe and fear — I began anticipating a flashback episode, taking us back to Silo 18’s distant past and bringing us some long-awaited answers about the silo’s history. And really, wouldn’t this have been a good time for a flashback? With tensions high in both Silo 18 and Silo 17, and with two more episodes to go in the season after this one, wouldn’t a little breather and a little backstory have been nice?
Alas, the Silo writers had other ideas, and I confess that my thwarted expectations may have soured my feelings. Or it may be that the episode is pretty middling on its own merits. Compared with this season’s recent action-packed, plot-forward chapters, “The Book of Quinn” stalls quite a lot, jumping between a half-dozen storylines without moving many of them along in a particularly gripping way.
As it happens, the episode’s title refers to a literal book sought out by Lukas in what turns out to be this week’s richest storyline. While trying to crack Quinn’s complicated code, Lukas embarks on an investigation on multiple silo levels, starting in the late Judge Meadows’s apartment and then in the home of Quinn’s direct descendants. Those descendants eventually tell Lukas that Judge Meadows visited them before she died, trading some printed relics for Quinn’s personal, annotated copy of The Pact — the actual “book of Quinn,” so to speak.
The Lukas scenes aren’t exciting per se, but they are revealing in that Lukas’s attempts to wield his new power as Bernard’s shadow show the limits of that power. Judge Sims and his Judicial goons don’t have a lot of respect for the shadow’s blue badge — especially given that the goons had planned to plunder Meadows’s apartment before Lukas got there —and they let him know that while Bernard may officially be in charge, the people the mayor relies on to do his dirty work are the ones who really decide who gets the favors and who gets the punishment. (To drive the point home, Sims casually notes that he knows where Lukas’s mother lives and works.)
Still, even if we don’t get a full-blown Quinn flashback in this episode, we do learn more about him. Bernard tells Lukas that everything the silo’s residents have been taught about Quinn — that he failed to quell a rebellion, which ended with all the important historical records either burned or erased — is misleading. According to Bernard, Quinn was a genius for letting the lore be destroyed because before then, there were rebellions roughly every 20 years, and since Quinn, there’s been peace for 140.
That sure seems like a plausible explanation. Yet when Lukas uses Quinn’s copy of The Pact to decode his secret message, he reads these words: “If you’ve gotten this far, you already know the game is rigged.” Could Bernard’s secret history of Quinn be another ruse?
One of the more intriguing questions this episode raises is whether the game is worth playing anyway, even if the people running it know it’s rigged. It’s something Sheriff Billings wrestles with this week when Shirley tries to convince him to ignore The Pact, given that it’s highly likely the silo’s Founders were liars. The sheriff’s fiery counterargument is that the whole social order would collapse without some kind of an organizing principle. They may as well trust the process the Founders established, even if their reasons remain shrouded in mystery.
This debate never gets much of a chance to take root or develop because there are too many other characters involved in too many other plots. Some scenes this week barely last a minute before we’re rushed to another part of the silo for another scene, which barely gets going before we’re yanked away again, and so on. This isn’t like the climactic part of an adventure story, where purposeful cross-cutting between daring deeds builds suspense. This feels more like trying to follow a half-dozen conversations that keep getting interrupted.
Two of these storylines — the ones with actual action — suffer from the diffusion. First, down in Mechanical, Knox plans to rob Supply because raiders are blocking the stairs, and their Supply ally Carla is still incarcerated, so the Down Deep is running low on essentials. Walker objects, arguing that they should be more focused on getting Carla back. When Bernard calls Walker to a secret meeting, he offers a deal: He’ll let her check to see that her ex-wife is okay in exchange for information about what the Mechanical rebels are planning.
The end result of all this backroom scheming is that the rebels’ robbery turns into an ambush, as they barge right into a room full of raiders. The whole caper sequence should be more exciting, but because we’ve already seen Walker’s betrayal, one of this episode’s only action sequences flattens out into “here is something else that happened.”
That leveling effect is even more bothersome when it comes to what’s going on in Silo 17. We left Juliette last week at a dramatic moment after she rapidly ascended through the silo’s flooded levels, only to discover a trail of blood and a missing Solo. As this episode begins, she’s in physical pain due to the bends — just as Solo had warned — and she’s trying to stay out of sight while she figures out who might’ve abducted or killed the silo’s only resident.
The Juliette sequences are spooky and unnerving, but frustratingly short. Altogether, the half-dozen or so scenes in Silo 17 cover about eight minutes, sprinkled throughout the episode, which isn’t enough time for them to become as involved as they should be.
That said, the Juliette parts of this episode do get somewhere surprising and promising by the end. Her attempts to sneak around prove unsuccessful, as she’s shot through the shoulder with an arrow by a shadowy figure who warns, “I killed him, and I’ll kill you too!” Later, wielding a shield and a knife, Juliette finds a body on the ground and checks to see if it might be Solo’s corpse. It turns out to be yet another attacker. After some hand-to-hand combat, Juliette is cornered by three people in total, all of whom appear to be quite young.
Who are these interlopers, and how did they get here? Did they actually kill Solo? Here’s hoping that next week we get to those answers more quickly, and in more detail.
• Among the relics in Judge Meadows’s apartment: an Etch-a-Sketch, preserved under glass.
• Shirley paints a name on the Down Deep’s secret memorial wall, adding “Cooper” to the list of Mechanical’s martyred rebels.
• Both Knox and Shirley were recurring characters in season one, but neither got enough screen time to make a strong impression. It’s been a sometimes rocky adjustment to see them treated as A-story-worthy in season two, although, on the positive side, it’s been good to see Remmie Milner show more personality as Shirley. The conversation with Billings in the cafeteria isn’t just a way for Shirley to express skepticism about The Pact. It also allows her a moment to make fun of some rock-hard biscuits, and just generally to create a sense of her place within the history and culture of Silo 18’s lower levels.
• Billings’s wife, Kathleen, gets her feelings hurt when she delivers a meal to Patrick Kennedy and finds out from him that her husband is carrying around a picture of the Blue Ridge Mountains, torn from that forbidden children’s book we first saw in season one. Billings claims he didn’t show it to Kathleen because it’s “dangerous,” but she demands to see it anyway. And why not? Perhaps the only way to save this silo is to stop keeping secrets.
In the latest episode of Silo, titled ‘The Book of Quinn’, fans were taken on an emotional rollercoaster as the true motives of Quinn were finally revealed.
The episode begins with Quinn’s past coming back to haunt him, as a figure from his childhood reappears and threatens to expose his darkest secrets. As Quinn struggles to keep his past hidden, tensions rise within the group as they begin to question his loyalty.
Meanwhile, tensions between the factions reach a boiling point as a power struggle ensues, leading to a shocking betrayal that leaves everyone reeling. With the fate of the Silo hanging in the balance, alliances are tested and decisions must be made that will change the course of their lives forever.
As the episode comes to a close, viewers are left on the edge of their seats as they wait to see what consequences Quinn’s actions will have on the group and what lies ahead for the Silo.
Tune in next week for another thrilling episode of Silo, as the drama continues to unfold and the stakes get higher than ever before.
After something of a two-hander for much of Silo Season 2, with Rebecca Ferguson and Steve Zahn keeping each other company in the other silo, it looks like Ferguson’s Juliette is finally no longer by herself if this first look at Episode 8 is anything to go by. Collider is thrilled to bring an exclusive sneak peek at one of our favorite series to our readers, and in it, we see Ferguson’s Juliette having lost track of Zahn’s “Solo,” but encountering a new threat she hasn’t yet faced. What happens next is not for the faint of heart.
Silo follows the lives of the last ten thousand people on Earth, residing in a mile-deep underground structure designed to shield them from the toxic and lethal world above. The origins and purpose of the silo remain a mystery, and those who dare to uncover the truth face deadly consequences. Alongside Ferguson and Zahn, the series also features a terrific cast that includes the likes of Tim Robbins, Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, Alexandria Riley, Shane McRae, Remmie Milner, Clare Perkins, Billy Postlethwaite, Rick Gomez, Caitlin Zoz, Tanya Moodie and Iain Glen.
The episode’s logline is as follows:
“Juliette discovers something’s happened to Solo. Bernard makes an offer to Walker. Lukas meets with Salvador Quinn’s descendants.”
Rebecca Ferguson Will Be Dedicating the Next Year of Her Life to ‘Silo’
In the wake of Silo‘s renewal for two final seasons, which will be filming back to back (and are filming currently, as it happens), Ferguson, alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook, spoke with Empire Magazine’s Pilot TV podcast and explained how the next 12 months were going to be a “long old year.” She added:
“I have scheduled my home life. I’ve got my Pilates in. I’ve got a reformer on set. No, it’s wonderful. And also sort of when you get involved in something like this, the books are a certain quantity and mass, and we all knew how far it would have to go. It’s more, will the audience like it? And the fact that it’s going so well, it’s just such a sort of homage to all of us being involved in it. So yeah, it’s phenomenal that we get to do season three and four, and even if it’s long, it’s going to take the time it takes. And I’m excited.”
The next episode of Silo premieres on Friday. Check out the first look at the episode above.
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In a dystopian future, men and women reside in a vast underground silo governed by strict regulations, believed to shield them from the hazardous world above. The series delves into the complex social order within the silo and the mysteries surrounding their subterranean existence.
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Rebecca Ferguson
, Common
, Tim Robbins
, Harriet Walter
, Christian Ochoa Lavernia
, Avi Nash
, Billy Postlethwaite
, Chinaza Uche
, Iain Glen
, Remmie Milner
, David Oyelowo
, Rick Gomez
, Ferdinand Kingsley
, Shane McRae
, Chipo Chung
, Caitlin Zoz
, Matt Gomez Hidaka
, Angela Yeoh
, Olatunji Ayofe
, Khairika Sinani
, Will Patton
, Akie Kotabe
Rebecca Ferguson Finally Discovers She’s Not Alone in Shocking ‘Silo’ Season 2 Sneak Peek [Exclusive]
Fans of the hit sci-fi series ‘Silo’ have been eagerly awaiting the release of season 2, and now, they can get a sneak peek at what’s to come. In an exclusive clip shared by the show’s creators, Rebecca Ferguson’s character, Dr. Sarah Williams, finally discovers that she’s not alone in the mysterious underground silo.
The clip opens with Dr. Williams exploring the dark and eerie corridors of the silo, her flashlight casting long shadows on the walls. As she cautiously makes her way through the labyrinthine structure, she starts to hear strange noises echoing around her.
Suddenly, a figure emerges from the shadows, causing Dr. Williams to jump in shock. But instead of being a threat, the figure turns out to be another survivor who has been living in the silo all this time.
As the two women cautiously approach each other, viewers can feel the tension and excitement building. What secrets does this new character hold? How will their presence change the dynamic of the silo?
Fans will have to wait for the new season of ‘Silo’ to find out, but this sneak peek is sure to leave them on the edge of their seats. Stay tuned for more updates on the highly anticipated second season of ‘Silo’.
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