Plus, there’s at least one total dud of a performance that throws a lot of the show’s dramatic weight out of balance. Some of the performances are quite good and grounded, but the show has a tendency to dispatch abruptly with key characters, usually in ways that are disappointing instead of shocking. Sometimes the show’s twists are ridiculously obvious and it’s insulting to the audience’s intelligence that they’re treated as twists at all, but sometimes its reveals are fairly satisfying. Sometimes the world-building in Silo is superb while its primary storyline flounders, and then sometimes that primary storyline catches fire and the world-building becomes nonsensical. It isn’t always as easy, though, to be caught up in the exact same things the show is interested in at the exact same time it’s interested in them. It’s easy to get caught up in the adaptation of Hugh Howey’s book series, which hails from Graham Yost ( Justified), one of my favorite showrunners. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a show doing a standalone episode this early in its run - “Long, Long Time” from The Last of Us is a tremendous recent example - but in the case of Silo, it captures much of what’s simultaneously so successful and so frustrating about the series. Note: This interview took place before SAG-AFTRA officially announced a strike on July 13.'The Changeling' Trailer Sees LaKeith Stanfield Trapped in a Fairy Tale-Turned-Horror Story What are your predictions or hopes for Season 2, Silo novel readers? Do you think we will meet Solo aka Jimmy? Will Lukas’ TV fate change? Should Season 2 end with the climax of Wool, and any Season 3 can delve into Shift? When TVLine spoke to Ferguson in late June, we asked what Juliette’s story might look like in Season 2, and she said, “We’re trying to stick as close to the book as possible” - without specifying Wool or Shift - “but we also have certain reasons to change certain things, which will make sense when you see it.”įerguson had also told TVLine, in between shooting scenes for Season 2 (which last week halted production due to the SAG-AFTRA strike), that from her point of view as an executive producer on the Apple TV+ series, “People worked really hard” to get the scripts done ahead of the WGA strike, “and the fact that they were able to do it with the means that we have was phenomenal. (World Order Operation Fifty) project that begat the silos first took shape. Meaning, there is much in Wool left to be explored - namely ( MILD BOOK SPOILER ALERT) Juliette’s experiences in the silo she visits next - whereas significant portions of the second novel, Shift, are set hundreds of years prior, back when the W.O.O.L. (Howey’s first, self-published take on the Silo world represents just the first 48 pages of Wool the other 500 pages, starting with Juliette’s introduction, were added on when the initial novella was met with great success.) Yet Season 1 covered not even half of the first book. What Juliette does next, where she goes, promises to have repercussions for “not one person,” series star and EP Rebecca Ferguson told TVLine in late June, but “an entire human race.” In other words, “The stakes are ridonkulously high.”Īpple TV+’s Silo is based on a trilogy of novels by EP Hugh Howey, titled Wool, Shift and Dust ( shop separately at Amazon or boxed set).
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