Warning: Spoilers for “Silo” Season 2 Episode 1 Forward!
Life within the far future nightmare of “Silo” shouldn’t be precisely an actual rosy place to be, as some inexplicable calamity has required humanity to exist in elaborate 144-level underground bunkers the place everybody is run psychotropic medicine within the water provide and asking too many questions may get you exiled to the poisonous atmosphere exterior the place you may die inside minutes. No enjoyable in any respect!
A riot in Juliette Nichols’ (Rebecca Ferguson) own residence Silo 18 roughly 140 years previous to the occasions depicted led to the burning of all literary materials and the scouring of laptop onerous drives that may have provided some clarification as to what occurred to Earth and exactly why no person can depart with out perishing.
Season 2 of Apple TV+’s addictive sci-fi sequence starring Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, and Frequent simply returned Friday for anxious viewers to study the destiny of Juliette after she was booted out of the silo the place she noticed dozens of different silos within the distance.
On account of some slight-of-hand with the right warmth tape grabbed from Upkeep as an alternative of Bernard’s (Tim Robbins) nefarious IT Division, Juliette’s swimsuit was protected against no matter toxic vapors, poisonous compounds, or irradiated air exists within the aftermath of a horrific unnamed apocalyptic occasion.
Written by sequence creator Graham Yost, “Silo” Season 2’s premiere episode titled “The Engineer” begins a century earlier contained in the neighboring Silo 17 the place the sheriff leads a insurgent crowd storming vault doorways resulting in a slanted hall and out into supposed sunshine. The parents at Silo 17 surge exterior after overpowering the IT guards and joyously flood into the wasteland. With the bunker’s generator set to flood the silo’s decrease ranges, they’d little alternative however to exit their concrete house.
Flash ahead to current occasions and a tattered inexperienced freedom flag marks the tragic end result of that ill-fated riot and a cratered graveyard of 1000’s of untamed insurgents who foolishly believed that being exterior was higher. That is the calamity Juliette discovers after striding over the hill into the killing fields of Silo 17.
The place most folk would have simply given up, slumped over, and expired because of the excessive difficulties attempting to get inside Silo 17, she’s a never-say-die form of particular person within the traditional heroic sense. Deciding to step inside a useless silo the place a mass exodus has occurred a long time in the past with out a clue as to why they fled won’t be the most effective choice, however along with her air provide working dangerously low and who is aware of what infectious agent within the environment, she has little alternative however to staggers down the yawning rampway over morbid piles of crunchy useless our bodies.
As soon as inside after appreciable issue and her survival swimsuit’s oxygen shortly working out, Juliette secures the silo doorways, decontaminates herself, and should smash her helmet with a crowbar to take it off. She’s capable of breathe usually contained in the tomb-like Silo 17 and explores the crumbling ranges in flickering darkness.
What follows is a sequence of sequences the place Juliette tries to bridge the hole between ranges the place the revolution unfolded to succeed in IT and failing a number of occasions. This reminds us of each online game the place gamers try and leap onto a ledge, swing throughout water, or bounce a chasm, however the technical nature of the hop, skip, or climb is extreme, which ends up in hours of frustration and a dash in your telephone or laptop computer to try to purchase a cheat code or clue to assist get you previous the irritating check.
Effectively, think about that relentless anxiousness occasions one-thousand! Finally by way of trial and error Juliette manages to stand up to the IT and Judicial degree, escapes the flood zone and passes corpses that appear to have died lately. All of a sudden she follows the sound of music resulting in a locked vault door. After attempting to hack the digital keypad to open the hatch, bleary blue eyes seem within the slender window, hooked up to a voice that threatens to kill Juliette if she makes an attempt to open the doorway once more.
Again in Silo 18, the seeds of riot are absolutely germinating after residents witnessed Juliette surviving what nobody has survived earlier than. Bernard should quell the mounting rumors earlier than a full panic ensues that may threaten all the survival group.
Will Bernard comply with The Founders’ insistence on consulting the silo bible referred to as The Pact, or will the reality burn brighter? Will the water ranges rise in Juliette’s house silo and can the identical destiny as Silo 17 occur right here? And simply who’s that loopy blue-eyed dude holed up within the locked vault? All these mysteries and extra lie forward!
New weekly episodes of “Silo” Season 2 air solely on Apple TV+ on Fridays.
