Silo Season 2 Is Almost Here: What Can We Expect From the Next Chapter of the Apple TV+ Project?
The wait is almost over.
On November 15, Apple TV+ will launch the second season of Silo, a sci-fi series that takes viewers back to the many levels of an underground bunker with too many secrets within its walls.
We tell you what questions the creators and characters left us with in Season 1, and what to expect in Season 2.
Is There Life Outside of the Bunker?
The name Silo originally comes from the definition of a silo tower used to store bulk materials: from cement and sand to animal feed and grain. Once inside such a space, the characters are essentially placed in the myth of Plato's cave, from which the exit is painful, as is the search for truth.
At the same time, the very form of the shelter is ideal for demonstrating the ideas of class stratification, literally by floors. The strictest hierarchy was formed over generations, but the question is, how did people manage to maintain a comfortable and civilized way of life in conditions of insufficient production?
Probably, the second season will start at the same point where the first one ended: Juliette sees an apocalyptic world and many circles on the ground – apparently the entrances to other bunkers.
She is slowly running out of oxygen, and if the show follows the path of the literary source, she will have to get to another bunker before she suffocates. There, a truly colorful character awaits her: Solo, Juliette's future fellow survivor and keeper of the data from his own underground shelter.
Much Depends on How Closely Silo's Scriptwriters Stick To the Literary Source
Silo is a show that succeeds not only because of its scope, but also because of its new formula of intriguing cliffhangers that largely compensate for the dramatic voids.
The first season kept viewers guessing about what would happen next, how it was possible, and what was going on there. The bunker felt real because we, along with the characters, couldn't stop thinking about how we were going to get out.
And when we talk about plot mysteries and fan theories, we can't ignore the fact that all the answers have long been in the pages of Hugh Howey. All the premises and consequences are there, but maybe the showrunners want to step aside.
The future fate of the characters – not just Juliette and Solo, but also Mayor Bernard and the rest of the bunker inhabitants – depends on how closely the project follows the literary source.
Season 2 or 3 May Need to Go Back in Time
The first season began with the stories Holston and Proper Gauge, but if the show is to last long enough, it will have to follow the series structure and move on to the Shift series, a prequel that explains how the world came to an apocalypse and isolation.
For Apple TV+, Hugh Howey's original books offer a lot of narrative potential: either the show will incorporate flashbacks to the global catastrophe into the bunker story, or it will launch a large-scale, largely political sci-fi that ultimately returns the plot to Juliette's arc.
The prequel will show how man-made a social system based on lies is, and how fundamental and at the same time distant the path to truth is. The show's characters know full well that information and power go hand in hand. Showrunner Graham Yost claims that there are plans for a total of four seasons based on the Wool, Shift, and Dust books.
One way or another, when we see the mysterious crop circles again in Season 2, there will be several pressing questions that need to be answered.
What exactly did everyone who came to the surface die of? How many similar shelters are there in the world of the show? Is there a central control among them, and how can one underground dweller communicate with another?