Summary
Siloshowrunner Graham Yost reveals that season 2 will begin with a rebellion gone wrong. Season 1 focused on an engineer, Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson), who was thrust into a web of conspiracy and murder in the 144-level underground silo where she and the rest of the human community live. TheSiloseason 1 endingteased thatthe scope of season 2 will extend far beyond Juliette’s silo, shedding more light on the rest of the futuristic world.
While speaking withEntertainment Weekly, Yost shared thatseason 2 will immediately expand that scope with the premiere episode showing a failed rebellionthat occurred at an undetermined point in the past within another silo. The beginning of season 2 will explore the leader who ignited this revolution as he convinces others to leave their silo and enter the outside world. He also teased how this event affects Juliette and the people she left behind in her silo in the present-day timeline and how it establishes the structure of season 2. Read Yost’s comments below:
He’s got this green flag and says, ‘Follow me to freedom. Let’s go outside. They run up and we cut from them just as they’re going outside to seeing that same flag sticking up out of the ground, out of the hand of a skeleton, and it’s God knows how many years later. In the distance is this person in a cleaning suit walking toward it, and it’s Juliette, who will follow the trail of bodies that will lead her into a dead silo.
There’s the beginnings of a call for rebellion, because Juliette went over the hill, so maybe it’s safe outside. And yet what we saw over in the other silo is what can happen if the rebellion goes wrong and all the people died, so that’s the basic tension of the season.
One is with Juliette in this other silo, and one is back in her home silo. Juliette knows [what] could happen to her silo, and is there any way she could get back to them to help them to stop that from happening? Stuff’s starting to get really, really scary."
Why Silo Season 2’s Failed Rebellion Storyline Is A Good Sign
This Storyline Is A Major Part Of The Source Material.
Juliette and the viewers understand that simply rebelling and leaving their silos is not enough, as the past has already shown the disastrous results such action will yield.
Even though the fates of Juliette and the other surviving characters feel more important than what happened in the past, beginning season 2 with flashbacks to a rebellion gone wrong is a good sign because it hints thatthe series will continue to be a worthy adaptation of its source material. The second book in Hugh Howey’s Silo trilogy,Shift, is a prequel to the events in the first book,Wool.Shiftis essential to providing the full context andhistory ofSilo’s world.
Silo Season 2’s Story Makes A Massive Change From The Books
Even though Silo season 1 closely adapted its source material, new season 2 footage for the show suggests it could potentially tread a different path.
While the series cannot feasibly abandon Juliette and the other established characters for an entire prequel season, opening it with the failed rebellion can ensure that vital elements fromShift’s story are incorporated into the show. As Yost teases, this raises the stakes forSiloseason 2.Juliette and the viewers understand that simply rebelling and leaving their silos is not enough, as the past has already shown the disastrous results such action will yield. Juliette and the friends she left behind, including Martha Walker (Harriet Walter) and Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash), will have to find another way instead.
In addition toincorporatingShift’s prequel focus into season 2, the series also needs to finish adapting the events ofWool, which Yost hints will end"in a slightly different way.“Silohas made some changes from the source material, but most of those changes paid off and make sense in the context of a television adaptation. Season 2 seems to continue this as it carefully adapts the most important beats from the novels while also forging its own identity as one of the best ongoing science-fiction series.
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In a dystopian future, men and women reside in a vast underground silo governed by strict regulations, believed to shield them from the hazardous world above. The series delves into the complex social order within the silo and the mysteries surrounding their subterranean existence.
