What is it about?
In a future where the Earth has been destroyed and the air has become toxic, the survivors live in a giant 144-story underground silo. Within this society, individuals must follow a series of very strict rules that are meant to protect them.
Citizens who break the law are sent outside the silo, condemned to find death in the breathing atmosphere. However, little by little, the idea that leaders are lying about what is happening outside is gaining ground…
The Silo series airs on Apple TV+ and is available on myCANAL. Watched episodes: 5/10.
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The Silo series is anchored by a stellar cast including Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Dune), Tim Robbins (Top Gun, Mystic River, Les Évadés), Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation, The Social Network) and David Oyelowo (The Butler, MI-5).
Other cast members include Common (Suicide Squad, John Wick 2), Harriet Walter (Rocketman, The Last Duel), Avi Nash (The Walking Dead) and Chinaza Uche (Dickinson).
Is it worth checking out?
To adapt the first novel, the creative team of Hugh Howe’s acclaimed trilogy of dystopian stories of the same name needed this far-fetched science fiction world. It was Canadian screenwriter Graham Yost who cut his teeth on Band of Brothers: L’Enfer du Pacifique or Justified, who created and wrote it. Silo.
He is accompanied by Norwegian filmmaker Morten Tyldum, the films The Imitation Game and Passengers, among others. Their work together makes it possible to combine careful and complex writing with demanding staging of shots that are heightened from each other to create a whole that should captivate fans of great works of science fiction.
The first episode deftly establishes the foundations of Miss World through the story of a married couple in an hour of time, formed by Alison and Holston, who are doing everything they can to have a child. Except these two are in a dangerous dystopian future where the Earth is breathable and toxic. So they live in a very strict underground silo where rulers rule even birth.
As they try to design, the audience will learn a little more about the advantages of this society, but also the disadvantages. Holston is the sheriff of this company and his position obliges him to respect many regulations, and his wife Alison is an IT employee. And when he comes across compromises, he calls the whole system into question. Are we hiding the truth from them?
In the long slow depths of humanity
As with all Apple TV+ productions, the medium meets ambition in Silo, which offers a visually stunning world that makes enough sense of the oppression and confinement its characters experience, even if it sometimes falls too easily into contemplative exercise. A flaw often found in SF series like Foundation, for example.
In addition to the polished and austere aesthetics that hide certain lengths that parallel the lived experience of the characters, the series questions our relationship with the world, our beliefs and our doubts. And in the very breathless exploration that makes SF series next to controlled thrillers, society sinks into a cerebral labyrinth like a silo.
Because all the salt in a silo circulates and drips in the answers to a given underground silo. Why, when and by whom was it built? More than a dystopian series, Silo stands out for its procedural mechanics and immersion in conspiracy theories.
This is where the great heroine Juliet comes in, flawlessly played by Rebecca Ferguson. An actor familiar with major SF projects since Dune plays the mechanic in charge of the Silo generator who joins forces with Holston to find out why one of his friends was murdered.
The Swedish actor delivers a powerful interpretation of this strong and fearless character who is only trying to lift the veil of mystery and conspiracy. But the truth sometimes lies elsewhere, and it will take your wits to discover all the sources of the silo and those who run it.
After each episode, the series can sweep the carpet with side stories, but it always ends up hanging the wagons without providing all the answers. Which gives a mixed feeling of frustration and fascination with a thrilling story wrapped in a magnetic aesthetic. In short, Silo has enough arguments to be the great SF series of the year.
The first two episodes of the Silo series are available on Apple TV+ (on the platform and via myCANAL). The sequel will be available at the rate of one episode per week.
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