Silo tv revies8/7/2023 ![]() He is the standout of the first two episodes. Oyelowo’s Sheriff Holston is moving in his grief and stalwart in his determination. Each and every actor brings something unique to the series and the characters themselves work so well together that it’s easy to be swept away by the series. On that point, the ensemble cast starring alongside Ferguson is absolutely stacked with Tim Robbins, Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, David Oyelowo, and Rashida Jones. We do learn, and that beauty of trusting your audience and having faith in your script and actors delivering it is what helps this series succeed. Without overexplaining its premise or focus, the series drops the audience into a community of people and asks us to just take their idiosyncrasies and past as fact and trust that somewhere in it all we will come to intimately understand how it all connects to each other. Each scene from different points in time informs the audience of different pieces of the history at play in the Silo. While I’m not always a fan of non-linear storytelling, Silo executes perfectly. ![]() From one statement, “I want to go out,” the story begins, and different points in time converge to reveal small truths connecting across characters and time. Control over bodies, over information shared, and the complete removal of choice pushed by the Founder’s system from so far in the past that reasoning is no longer present. Silo stars Rebecca Ferguson as Juliette, an engineer, who seeks answers about a loved one’s assumed suicide and tumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to unlock the truth about her home and the danger that comes with it.īy using non-linear storytelling, Silo’s narrative starts off strong with intense moments that show that order in the Silo is kept by control and control alone. Relics of the before times are banned, questions are quelled, and despite the facade of a thriving community, there is something brewing under the surface. No one knows when or why the silo was built, and any who tries to find out faces fatal consequences. But as the generations have passed in the walls of the silo history has been erased or rewritten, and the truth of how the community came to be is a mystery all on its own. The habitants celebrate Freedom Day together to honor when the Founders protected the silo, having children when prescribed, and ultimately abiding by the one and only rule: don’t ask to go outside. The series follows the story of the last ten thousand people on earth in their mile-deep home, protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. ![]() The 10-episode season is created by showrunner Graham Yost and adapts the novels by Hugh Howey. But few have detached the narrative from our current world so sharply as AppleTV+‘s Silo has. Spanning countries and streaming platforms, dystopian societies are in, because, well, a post-apocalyptic world feels somehow closer than ever. There are quite a few dystopian future science fiction shows out now, or from the last couple of years. ![]()
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