Rebecca Ferguson stars in a thriller of her own. Silo is a science fiction drama series, released on Apple TV+ on May 5.
Silo is based on a series of books by Hugh Howey that creator Graham Yost adapted into a television series. It takes place in a huge silo that is mysteriously built centuries before the story. who knows next to The world of the series is both narrow and pleasingly expansive. This silo has many floors and houses in an intricate social order. The mechanics and recyclers who keep this civilization going live in the building. A revolution seems to be in the offing.
Still, Silo is pretty compelling the way he is. The show features production design and is anchored by Ferguson, who is between it and Dune. While Silo occasionally has the (not obnoxious) walk and tone of an old syndicated Saturday show (Deep Space Nine comes to mind), Ferguson. All the severe control of him gives the series a necessary weight. Like the melancholic and evocative music of Atli Örvarsson. Silo built up enough to count itself as a highly anticipated TV series while still maintaining its nice notes of retro quirkiness.
The first season is designed as a magical mystery box, where a series of murders is gradually connected to the conspiracy. The community's sheriff, Holston, launches an investigation that leads him to Rebecca Ferguson, a mechanic responsible for the silo's important generator, who soon finds him making his way up the station to a grim fate. Both must navigate a tangle of betrayals, with the worst threat ever present looming over them: if they make too many false moves, they could be forced out of the silo to face the poisonous air above. terrestrial world. (This banishment is a ritual familiar to the inhabitants of the silo, a great punishment that has become an event for onlookers, partly due to the irregular hope that an exile will one day survive more than a few minutes.)
Goading and frustrating Holston and Juliette are a skeptical MP, Marnes (Will Patton), and the menacing head of the judiciary's security force, Sims (Common). Some kind of cover-up is going on, and Holston and Juliette, both overcome with grief, go on a risky quest to get to the bottom of things (or, in this case, the top of things). It's a game setup for a series, although at 10 episodes, the first season drags on too long.
Maybe it's due to my tattered and fuzzy attention span with Twitter, or maybe it's a lingering (and I think still justified!) frustration with post-Lost series like these, which reveal some crucial things while containing other answers. intriguing for later seasons. We still haven't learned about the ending of the initial seven and a half hour episode of Silo, after which there will be a year to wait for the next chapter.
The show has a great cast including actors Harriet Walter, Geraldine James, and Tim Robbins, but it's not really built as an ensemble piece. There are some ramblings involving other characters, notably Chinaza Uche's principled Deputy Billings, but Juliette and her shady mission are the main focus. If we are presented with a fuller, richer tapestry of silo life, we might be as invested in the characters as we are in seeking enlightenment.
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