Editor’s be aware: The beneath recap accommodates spoilers for Silo Season 2 Episode 1.
It has been slightly below 18 months since Silo wrapped up its first season, however Season 2 of the Apple TV+ dystopian sci-fi drama picks up proper the place the story left off. Just a few minutes have handed for the reason that first season’s closing moments, which noticed engineer-turned-sheriff Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) obtain the unimaginable and climb out of the crater surrounding the titular Silo. By doing so, she uncovered one of many insular and authoritarian construction’s most intently guarded secrets and techniques: Earth may certainly be a poisonous wasteland, however the Silo’s 10,000 residents aren’t the one survivors of no matter futuristic catastrophe befell our planet. Dozens of different Silos exist, if not lots of, and with that revelation comes the implication that Juliette has solely scratched the floor in the case of discovering what different secrets and techniques the omnipotent Founders have hidden from their oppressed civilians. However even when Juliette’s final journey seems to be lengthy and arduous, Season 2’s premiere is something however. Penned by sequence creator and showrunner Graham Yost, “The Engineer” is as suspenseful and enthralling as Season 1 at its peak, successfully establishing Silo‘s sophomore season for one more dwelling run.
‘Silo’ Season 2 Opens With a Failed Revolution
Appropriately sufficient, “The Engineer” opens with a small gentle piercing via full darkness. Tim, a younger boy we’ve not met earlier than, runs down the pitch-black hallways of the Down Deep with a lit torch in hand. One of many surrounding partitions bears symbols of anger and resistance: individuals have graffitied over a floor-to-ceiling “Thank the Founders” propaganda show with the phrases “liars” and “reality now.” As soon as Tim reaches a big group of adults, he delivers an important message from engineering: in quarter-hour, the Silo’s generator will flood.
Backed right into a nook by a ticking clock, this band of rebels makes a last-ditch assault in opposition to the Silo’s management, who’ve sequestered themselves behind armed guards on one of many higher ranges. Many civilians fall to the safety crew’s bullets earlier than the previous overwhelms the latter into give up. Each surviving civilian — younger Tim included — marches freed from the Silo and into the surface world, waving a victorious inexperienced flag all of the whereas.
Juliette Braves the Darkish in ‘Silo’ Season 2 Episode 1
As soon as this temporary prologue fades to black, we return to Juliette as she slowly crosses the gap between her Silo and its closest neighbor, passing a battered inexperienced flag and navigating via the 1000’s of skeletons littering the bottom. These corpses belong to the individuals we simply noticed charging out of their Silo with such fervent hope — with out a functioning environmental swimsuit, the poisonous air felled them mere minutes after they gained their freedom. Even the hall main into the Silo is so cramped with our bodies, Juliette should stroll on prime of them, sustaining her steadiness as dusty bones crunch beneath her booted ft.
As soon as inside, it rapidly turns into obvious that this deserted constructing is not any stroll within the park. Frankly, neither was Juliette’s Silo, however hers was operational; with out electrical energy or an energetic inhabitants, this one is as darkish and silent as an undisturbed crypt. Juliette herself almost joins the corpses when her restricted oxygen runs out. Suffocating beneath her helmet, which does not need to budge off her head, she shatters open the helmet’s glass entrance with a close-by crowbar.
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As soon as Juliette begins wandering the Silo’s acquainted paths, it would not take lengthy for her to note a distant clinking sound harking back to somebody hammering metal-on-metal. Nobody responds to Juliette’s calls, however she forges forward towards the noise. The issue? There’s an inconvenient chunk of walkway lacking, one too giant to soundly soar throughout. Inspiration strikes after Juliette spots a physique hanging off one of many railings from a rope; she hauls up each rope and physique and commandeers the latter, tying one finish to the railing and the opposite round her waist. She lowers herself down and tries to swing throughout the lacking slab of walkway, however the rope snaps underneath her weight, careening her down into deep water — presumably from the flooded generator referenced within the episode’s prologue.
‘Silo’ Season 2 Stays Simply As Tense as Season 1
Juliette manages to pull herself again to strong floor, however not with out letting unfastened an oddly satisfying scream. This wordless, annoyed cry emphasizes how the overwhelming majority of “The Engineer” unfolds in silence. Silo has all the time been a sequence each assured and astute sufficient to by no means maintain its viewers’s hand, however a premiere that borders on dialogue-less makes for a daring begin. The truth that the Season 2 premiere stays simply as partaking as the ten episodes previous it’s a sworn statement to all the manufacturing in addition to Ferguson’s efficiency. The previous turns the Silo’s recognizable design right into a chillingly oppressive surroundings, whereas our main girl walks a fair finer line between feral resolve and weighted loneliness. Equally daring is how “The Engineer” lives as much as its title by by no means diverting away from Juliette’s perspective. For now, the chums and enemies she left behind must wait.
Talking of mates: as Juliette retains exploring, sure areas set off flashbacks to her youthful self (Amelie Little one-Villiers), particularly her early days in mechanical, as she learns the ropes along with her coworkers and grows nearer to Martha Walker (Harriet Walter) and Shirley Campbell (Ida Brooke). Each girls ship some exhausting truths about isolation, resilience, and humanity’s innate want for neighborhood. In Walker’s case (who already demonstrates a gruff however deeply maternal affection for Juliette), she relays a narrative about catching pneumonia. The worst half wasn’t the signs, however the second she awoke in the midst of the night time and located herself alone. Terrified and panicking, Walker bumped into the hall and shouted for assist; it was a reduction when her neighbors responded, despite the fact that they had been irritated about having their sleep interrupted.
Shirley, in the meantime, as soon as received slightly too adventurous with a gaggle of younger mates. Collectively, they ventured down into one of many Silo’s lowest ranges, just for the others to by accident go away Shirley behind. Worse, they by no means got here again for her, opting to depart her deserted at the hours of darkness. Juliette, already well-acquainted with societal exile within the wake of her mom Hanna (Sienna Guillory) dying by suicide, asks Shirley how she returned dwelling. “I went actually, actually slowly,” Shirley solutions. “However I discovered my approach.”
‘Silo’s Season 2’s Premiere Teases the Collection’ Wider Mysteries
Within the present timeline, Juliette finds her approach by dropping an extended strip of metallic over the lacking footpath part by way of a home made rope pulley. It is a sluggish, perilous stroll throughout, however a promising one – till the makeshift bridge offers, forcing Juliette to run, leap, and seize onto the other edge for expensive life. Hauling herself up, Juliette enters the workplace and housing areas solely to face one other disappointment; that clinking sound is nothing greater than an ID badge hanging off an energetic desk fan and bashing in opposition to its entrance. However a far eerier noise quickly replaces it: music. One way or the other, the dulcet tones of Audrey Hepburn crooning “Moon River,” a music made well-known by the movie Breakfast at Tiffany‘s, are coming from behind a large, metallic vault door.
Naturally curious, Juliette tries to open the locked entrance with none luck. Nonetheless, as quickly as she turns away, a really alive voice greets her from inside. A metallic eyehole slot slides open to disclose a pair of large, heterochromatic eyes staring out at Juliette. This stranger politely tells her that they perceive why she’s tempted to get inside, however they will not hesitate to kill her if she tries a second time. They snap the slot shut on Juliette’s shocked face, and Silo‘s Season 2 premiere cuts to its finish credit simply as sharply. This Silo’s (presumably) lone survivor may need interrupted Juliette’s suffocating loneliness, however they greet her with a deadly menace as a substitute of companionship. It is a poignant reminder of what Juliette has already misplaced and all she nonetheless stands to lose — and a tantalizingly ominous teaser for what’s to come back this season.
Silo Season 2’s premiere picks up proper the place the Season 1 finale left off, establishing an ominous teaser for what’s to come back.
- Rebecca Ferguson offers an excellent efficiency regardless of having minimal dialogue.
- Regardless that a lot of the ensemble forged do not seem, the episode stays riveting due to Ferguson’s presence and the sequence’ robust manufacturing worth.
- The unsettling however fascinating cliffhanger continues to tease future mysteries.
New episodes of Silo Season 2 premiere weekly on Fridays and can be found to stream on Apple TV+.