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Season 3 of Silo continues the saga of a dystopian society of 10,000 people living underground under mysterious circumstances, while revealing an origin story from centuries earlier. In the present, Juliette (Ferguson) survives her forced “cleaning” but returns with memory loss as the silo recovers from rebellion & faces a dangerous new threat. Meanwhile, in “Before Times,” journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) uncover a conspiracy that pulls them into a chain of events with catastrophic, irreversible consequences. Silo, formerly known as Wool, is a mini-series created and written by Canadian TV producer / writer Graham Yost, of series including Hey Dude, Boomtown, Raines, Justified, and Sneaky Pete previously. Based on the Silo series of novels by author Hugh Howey. Final writing credits not available yet. Episodes directed by Aric Avelino & Michael Dinner. Exec produced by Graham Yost, Michael Dinner, Nina Jack, Joanna Thapa, Rebecca Ferguson, Morten Tyldum, Howey, Amber Templemore, Fred Golan, Rémi Aubuchon. Produced by Apple Studios and AMC Studios. (courtesy First Showing)
The Silo series by Hugh Howey are an incredibly arresting group of books.
They take you into a far future where what is left of the United States, though they have lost that history and don’t seem themselves in nation state terms, lives underground in fifty 10,000 person silos, their lives carefully controlled by a system that exists solely to enable survival, not living.
But tellingly, they take you into our present and into the vast, frightening depths of a conspiracy which, like the Fallout video games and streaming series, sees the world destroyed for the “gain” of a 1% cohort who see only their interests as having worth and value.
To date, we haven’t seen that led to the silos being the silos but season three takes us there and it’s going to be fascinating to see how the past led to the present and what bearing that might have on the future.
Silo S3 debuts on AppleTV on 3 July with the ten-episode season running to 4 September.