![]() ![]() Which is good, since the Wool book series Silo is based on has even bigger problems afoot once Julliette understands the full extent of the conspiracy. There are more silos, more people, and more dire circumstances to explore than just that of Julliette’s Silo. Though season 1 could get bogged down in one mystery over another, the final episode promises to unite these all behind the bigger, animating force. But it was also the problem looming over everything, a mysterious motivating factor behind both Julliette’s personal questions with George and Bernard’s efforts to keep the Silo under his thumb. The “What’s outside the Silo?” puzzle took a backseat to most of the inside-Silo intrigue. It is a perfect place to leave Silo to pick up in an already-greenlit season 2. And by getting over the hill she sees two very important things: The world up top is even more desolate and ruined than the cameras led them to believe, and there are many other silos. Ultimately, Juliette is able to stay alive thanks to actually functional heat tape that keeps her suit airtight. Image: Apple TV Plus and Image: Apple TV Plus reality” meme, with the healthy illusion (L) and the desolate reality (R) Juliette sees. Silo’s own depressing, topside “expectations vs. The idyllic “outside” Juliette and others had been spreading was an illusion, seemingly a visual effect the government made so those sent outside the Silo would feel the urge to clean the sensor before dying. Perhaps most importantly, Juliette learns what outside the Silo actually looks like - and it’s actually worse than the government was letting people know. It’s not something Silo really gets into - yet - but it seems in line with the mysterious Founders’ mission to focus on life in the Silo. After all, we get hints that the denizens of the Silo might be getting drugged so they forget the outside world (explaining why no one remembers what “stars” are, even after just a little over a hundred years underground). And the new mayor Bernard (Tim Robbins) has been colluding with Robert to keep the Silo population placated and in the dark.īut the full extent of their control isn’t something Juliette, or the audience, fully understand. George’s death was actually suicide, trying to escape Judicial’s clutches. Robert (Common) and Judicial have been surveilling the Silo and controlling the citizens through a mix of espionage, brutal force, and bureaucratic nonsense. The government has been effectively controlling the population by keeping some people sterile. Luckily (or unluckily, for her), Juliette manages to untangle most of them in just a few weeks as sheriff. In a certain light, Silo season 1 is burdened by all its conspiracies. What does Silo’s season 1 ending mean? Image: Apple TV Plus ![]() And the ending of season 1 promises a much bigger, more complicated season 2. The arc of Hugh Howey’s Wool series promises a lot more sci-fi intrigue than we got in Silo season 1. But ultimately what season 1 ends with is a lot more questions - and frankly, that’s for the best. ![]() What was the Silo government doing with its birth control? What did they know about life beyond the door to the outside? Who was behind all these murders? What could Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) do about it? From the very start, Silo has been a mystery show. ![]()
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