Silo Season 1 felt like the platonic ideal of a sci-fi show — a standalone pilot, seamless worldbuilding, powerhouse performances, and a gravely serious tone even when characters used silly sci-fi terms like “The Before Times.” However, it only really covered half of Wool, the first book in the Silo trilogy.
Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette, a lowly mechanic-turned-sheriff-turned-martyr, was sent out of the underground bunker where she had grown up to clean the camera the silo residents use to view the wasteland above. While every other resident sent to clean this camera collapsed and died after only a few steps, Juliette replaced the faulty heat tape used to seal her suit, meaning she could make it over the hill to see the truth: that there are countless other silos.
