The Best Dystopian Thriller On Streaming Is Back, And It’s Building Bridges

By Joshua Tyler
| Revealed 11 seconds in the past

In its first season, Silo was a sequence centered round unraveling a thriller. By the tip, that thriller was solved. So what’s left for Silo in its second season? 

The primary episode of Silo’s second season, appropriately titled “The Engineer,” takes this concept actually. It spends most of its run time watching our predominant character use her engineering expertise to construct a bridge. She’s alone, at midnight, for all the hour. There’s nobody to speak to, nothing to say. It’s all Juliette, placing the horror of what she’s discovered out of her thoughts by specializing in one thing she will be able to management: fixing a easy engineering downside.

With the thriller solved, to maintain its viewers , now the Silo should construct one thing.

First, the second season picks up the place the final one left off, with Juliette outdoors her silo. She’s suited up and exploring devastation on the floor. The previous Sheriff has mentally accepted the reality: she was unsuitable, and the floor is a hellscape.  

Now, her main mission is survival, and she or he realizes that on this setting, she received’t final lengthy. Fortunately, Juliette purchased herself additional time by fixing the sabotaged warmth tape on her go well with, in season 1. Regardless of her repair, the go well with received’t final lengthy.

Juliette makes her method to one other silo, a silo with a darker historical past than hers. Everybody who as soon as lived there may be useless, killed after they satisfied themselves it was protected to exit. Now, to maintain herself alive, Juliette should climb over their rotting corpses to get inside their now empty however protected house.

Inside this silo, at midnight, Juliet finds a damaged bridge. On the opposite facet is a light-weight and a sound. To search out out what it’s, she’ll need to cross the chasm. As soon as she does, she’ll want a method to get again.

And so, our born fixer goes to work on fixing by constructing a bridge.

As she works, she’s additionally constructing Silo’s future as a tv sequence. For those who’ve learn the Hugh Howey books this story relies on, you realize the place it should go. Now for us, the viewers, the hook that’ll hold us coming again received’t be a thriller, which is now solved, however questioning whether or not or not Juliette could make one thing worthwhile out of what she is aware of.

It’s a daring starting to the present’s second season. The sequence takes a threat on an episode with just one character, restricted dialogue, and nothing however silent shadows. 

Silo pulls it off brilliantly, by interspersing the silence and darkness with flashbacks and by leaning on the efficiency of Rebecca Ferguson. She’s nonetheless among the finest actresses on streaming.

Silo season 2 was with the wait. If this primary episode is any indication, anticipate it to be higher than the primary one.

For those who haven’t watched Silo but, it’s not too late to get began. The primary season and now the second, are each accessible to stream on Apple TV+.