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Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2 and Hugh Howey's Silo books.

Many story beats from Silo season 2 drift significantly away from the original books, paving the way for the show to adopt many original elements. After Silo season 1 ends its run by roughly covering the first half of Hugh Howey's Wool, season 2 picks up where its predecessor leaves and covers the remaining chapters of the first book in the original trilogy. With this, Silo's seasons 1 and 2 adapt most arcs from the first Silo book, Wool, leaving the second, Shift, and the third one, Dust, for seasons 3 and 4.

While covering most aspects of the first book, Silo's seasons 1 and 2 do not shy away from introducing many of their own original ingredients. From featuring characters like Judge Meadows and Camille Sims to bringing new twists and turns to Juliette's story, the Apple TV+ sci-fi show makes many...

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for the Silo season 2 finale and from Wool.

Silo showrunner Graham Yost explains why season 2 made a significant change from the books with Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) and Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash). After becoming allies in season 1, season 2 sees Juliette and Lukas separated, as Juliette tries to figure out how to return to Silo 18, and Lukas becomes the It Shadow to Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins). Lukas learns from Bernard that Juliette may still be alive, but it is not until Silo season 2's ending that her survival is confirmed when Lukas sees through the outside display that she has returned to Silo 18.

While speaking with TVLine, Yost explains that, unlike in Hugh Howey's first book in the Silo trilogy, Wool, he did not want Juliette and Lukas to quickly become romantic, nor did he want Lukas to be fully aware of her survival. This...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2's finale.

Bernard's key stops blinking toward Silo season 2's ending moments, raising many questions about the key's purpose and the reason behind its cessation. In Silo season 1, Bernard's key was one of the earliest indications of the presence of other silos. With the number 18 imprinted on it, the key denoted that the central underground structure was among the many silos in the show's world. Although the key only appears a few times in the Apple TV+ sci-fi show's season 1, its presence denotes it holds immense significance in Bernard's role within the silo's leadership structure.

Even season 2 does not initially focus on the key but constantly hints it will eventually tie in Bernard's journey as Silo 18's leading figure. Towards Silo season 2's ending arc, the key, which previously glowed red and vibrated on several occasions, suddenly stops blinking. This makes it...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2's finale.

Silo season 2's ending is packed with many shocking story developments, with one revolving around the Algorithm choosing Camille over Robert. Despite being based on Hugh Howey's Silo books, the Apple TV+ sci-fi show has not shied away from taking many creative liberties throughout its runtime. It has not only significantly changed many story beats from the original books but has also introduced new characters to the show's overarching storyline.

For instance, Robert Sims has a different and relatively less significant role in the original books, while his wife does not even exist in the source material. The show, however, treats the two characters differently. Robert Sims has been one of the main characters in Silo since season 1, and Camille, too, rises in the ranks to become one of the leads in season 2. Silo season 2 also ends with a...

When it comes to any TV show, some episodes are stronger than others. Silo season 2 certainly had a strong season, but how do the episodes hold up against each other?

This was a season set in two locations. We saw Juliette make it to Silo 17, learning that her own silo isn’t the only place on Earth, and that her people aren’t the only survivors. Meanwhile, a rebellion threatened to grow in Silo 18, as many in Mechanical believed that Juliette was alive and the air outside was safe.

There were some parts of the story that dragged, but by the end of the season, we were certainly left wanting more. Let’s rank the episodes from worst to best.

Cooper (Matt Gomez Hidaka) and Knox (Shane McRae) in Silo season 2. Image: Apple TV+. Silo season 2, episode 3

I do want to start this by saying that I don’t think there were any terrible episodes.

The following contains spoilers from the Silo Season 2 finale, now streaming on Apple TV+.

Silo Season 2 ended with visual confirmation, for the rebelling denizens of Silo 18, that former sheriff Juliette Nichols indeed had survived being “sent out.”

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Viewers of course knew that Juliette (played by Rebecca Ferguson) had not only made it over the hill surveyed by the exterior camera lens,...

The following contains spoilers for the "Silo" season 2 finale, "Into the Fire."

Apple TV+ is home to many of the best sci-fi shows currently on the airwaves. Whether it's the alternate history glee of "For All Mankind" or the joy of watching Lee Pace as an immortal emperor fighting a bunch of assassins while completely naked in the epic "Foundation" or the (relatively) more grounded "Severance," there's something for every kind of sci-fi fan on Apple TV+.

Now, one of the streamer's best sci-fi shows has finished its second season — "Silo." Created by Graham Yost and based on the book series of the same name by Hugh Howey, "Silo" takes place in a dystopian future where the remnants of humanity live inside a giant underground silo hundreds of stories tall. Narratively, the show centers on Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson), an engineer who becomes engulfed in a huge conspiracy as she...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2's episode 10.

Silo season 2's finale is packed with nail-biting moments, but the most shocking scene comes when Bernard, too, resigns from his role and gives up on Silo 18. Although Lukas Kyle was absent from Silo season 2's first half, he gradually rose in the ranks to become one of the leading characters in the Apple TV+ sci-fi show after Bernard suddenly made him his shadow. Seeing it as an opportunity to escape the mines, Lukas set out to help Bernard crack Salvador Quinn's cryptic letter, hoping the mayor will forgive him for his past mistakes.

However, what begins as a journey to seek forgiveness takes a dark turn for Lukas and Bernard when they learn the truth about their silo and the grim world they live in. Lukas' hunt for answers leads him to Silo 18's lowest level, where he finds answers he never expected.

The following contains spoilers for Silo Season 2, Episode 10, "Into the Fire," which premiered Friday, Jan. 17 on Apple TV+.

At the end of Silo Season 2, Episode 9, Lukas Kyle interacts with a voice known as the Algorithm at the bottom of Silo 18. The Algorithm warns him that if he tells anyone about what he's encountered in the underground secret tunnel, they'll implement the "Safeguard Procedure." While sharing his discovery with Bernard Holland or any other person would've likely gotten him closer to answers, Lukas was so horrified that he kept it a secret.

This wasn't the first time the Safeguard was mentioned in Silo. Lukas decoded some lines of Salvador Quinn's cryptic letter per Bernard's request, one of which claims that an ominous "they" created the Safeguard. Viewers who have decoded the entire letter shared their own findings via Reddit, revealing that the Safeguard is anything but what its name suggests and...

The Apple TV+ series Silo had fans gripped from the get-go when it premiered in May 2023. Based on the Hugh Howey novel trilogy Wool, Shift, and Dust, the sci-fi dystopian drama is about residents of an underground silo following an apocalyptic event. No one understands what happened, and they believe that the Earth above is an uninhabitable wasteland. But when engineer Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) starts to investigate, she suspects untruths, secrets, and mysteries that she is desperate to uncover.

The series returned in November 2024 for its second season, and the setting expanded to include another silo along with new characters. Season 2 ends with an epic cliffhanger that has fans relieved to know that third and fourth seasons are coming.

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It's been a quite a journey for Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) and the rest of the characters on Apple TV+'s Silo, but at long last we've arrived at the season finale. In last week's penultimate episode, "The Safeguard," we finally learned the real identity of Juliette's companion Solo (Steve Zahn). Meanwhile, the conflict in Silo 18 reached a boiling point, while new It shadow Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) made a discovery deep in the bowels of the structure. What information did Lukas get from his strange encounter? And will Juliette make it home in time to stop the people she loves from dying in a bloody rebellion?

Silo has built up questions all season, and here at the finish line we finally get some answers...as well even more questions. As always, there will be Spoilers beyond this point.

Remmie Milner and Shane McRae in Silo season 2. | Image: Apple...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2 and Hugh Howey's Silo books.

After Silo season 2's ambiguous ending, many viewers would want to know what happens next in the story. Given how the Apple TV+ sci-fi show is based on Hugh Howey's book trilogy, the source material can give a fair idea of how the show will unfold in future seasons. It must be noted, however, that Silo season 2 significantly drifts away from the original books. Owing to this, even though the show will likely stay loyal to many aspects of the books' narrative, it will change many others.

Before closing with an intriguing flashback, Silo season 2 features a nail-biting ending arc in which Bernard learns the truth about the world he lives in while Juliette makes her way to Silo 18. In the meantime, Silo 18's rebellion reaches its peak as many citizens set out to open the underground structure's airlock.

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2.

Silo season 2 has introduced viewers to many intriguing story developments, with one revolving around a mysterious protocol called the Safeguard. The term first appears in the series when Lukas decodes a few lines from Salvador Quinn's letter. "They created the safeguard," says one line, hinting at how the founders planned to suppress chaos in the silos. However, like Lukas, viewers remain clueless about what the Safeguard means until the character sets out to look for answers.

In its ending moments, Silo season 2 finally removes the tapestry surrounding the Safeguard's true meaning and how it could potentially impact the people of Silo 18. While Silo's main characters, like Bernard and Lukas, learn the truth about it in the Safeguard, Juliette is exposed to the term when Solo recalls everything he knows about it. Many aspects of the procedure remain shrouded even after Silo...

Silo season 2 comes to an end in an explosive, deliciously frustrating way. Here’s our spoiler-free review of Silo season 2 episode 10.

It’s hard to pull off a good finale these days. The TV landscape is full of excellent series and it’s hard to stand out and even harder to convince your audience to hang on for a couple of years and wait for another season.

Silo season 2 has had a lot of ups and downs. There have been some incredible individual episodes – episode 4 in particular – but the series has also struggled in finding a balance between the different storylines. With two more seasons on the way, the finale has to prove that showrunner Graham Yost and his cast and crew know what they’re doing and this is all leading to something worthy of our patience.

In all honesty, I was nervous sitting down to watch episode 10. Sure,...

Not even in his wildest dreams would someone like Bernard Holland have thought that he would be played by the common folks from Mechanical. All hell broke loose for the It head when he found that the rebels had blown up the stairs from Level 92 to Level 90 to trap his army of raiders in the Down Deep. His regime was slowly crumbling, and Bernard couldn’t do anything to save it. But that wasn’t the end of his worries. [Spoiler Alert] A final blow hit him when his shadow, Lukas Kyle, whispered in his ear that he had cracked Salvador Quinn’s code and found out about the “safeguard procedure” that was going to wipe out the entirety of Silo 18. This was the moment when Bernard Holland realized his end was nigh. If he’s going to stay back in the silo, then he’ll be killed by his own people,...

Let’s start off this article by stating the obvious: I didn’t really like Silo Season 2. I am not going to claim that I am a massive fan of the first season or Hugh Howey’s books. I did watch the first couple of episodes of Season 1 back in 2023, and it wasn’t until I learned we’d be getting not just 1 but 3 more seasons that I picked it up again. After all the hype and the rewards that the show had garnered, I was a little afraid my viewing experience was going to be underwhelming, but I was genuinely impressed by the whole thing. Everything from the production design to the writing elicited a variety of emotional reactions from me, and I was ready for more. So, I watched the first episode of the second season, then the second one, and by the time I reached the final few episodes,...

Season 2 of Silo was divided into two plot lines: one that followed Juliette surviving in Silo 17, and with the other following the uprising in Silo 18. In the 9th episode, we saw Paul, Knox, Shirley, and Hank trying to figure out a way to thwart Bernard, who was keeping an eye on them via Walker. Paul and Robert had a conversation where the latter was convinced to dethrone Bernard and put Camille in charge of things. Bernard ordered the Sheriff’s Department to turn the cafeteria into a massive holding cell so as to contain the rebels from Mechanical. Lukas Kyle made two major discoveries. Firstly, there were a total of 51 silos, and secondly, these silos were connected via a network of tunnels. That said, when he tried to access the tunnel at the bottom of Silo 18, he was stopped in his tracks by the Algorithm, which threatened him with...

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Silo season 2, episode 9.

The dynamic between Silo's Mayor Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) and Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) undergoes an important shift in season 2, episode 9, "The Safeguard." During Silo season 1's ending, Lukas is sent to the mines by Bernard. His fortune changes significantly in season 2 when Bernard makes Lukas his It Shadow. Instead of toiling in the mines, Lukas instead gets to live comfortably while having access to information that no one else in Silo 18 but Bernard possesses.

Bernard does not do this out of the goodness of his heart but because he wants Lukas to decode a letter from Salvador Quinn. Quinn led the It Department 140 years earlier during the last rebellion and Bernard believes that Quinn was responsible for quelling that rebellion. Bernard is relying on Quinn's letter to help him destroy the current rebellion that is forming, and he knows...

A spoiler by any other name is still a spoiler, Solo@!@!@!!@@! Ugh.

When last we tuned into Silo Season 2 (new episodes drop every Friday on Apple TV+), Juliette (played by Rebecca Ferguson) and Silo 17 mystery man Solo (Steve Zahn) bonded a bit over his recollections of novels such as Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

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Silo season 2 has been quite the slow burn, leading to what everyone sees coming: rebellion. In season 2 episode 4, Juliette and Solo finally make progress in their quest to get her back home but she may not have a home to return to.

As Bernard remains steadfast in keeping to The Order handbook, Meadows becomes his main opponent. But will his decision to place blame on Mechanical for something horrific, seal the entire silo's fate?

The current state of Juliette's silo

At this point, several different side plots are occurring simultaneously. Firstly, we have Bernard and Meadows, disagreeing about what course of action to take next, with Bernard wanting to follow procedure per The Order handbook and Meadows wanting a more updated and free-thinking approach.

When Bernard is not butting heads with Meadows he is with Sims, who is becoming more and more independent, choosing to work for himself over Bernard.

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Silo season 2, episode 4, "The Harmonium."

Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) is an important character in Silo season 1, but is absent for the first three episodes of season 2. Despite Nash being a series regular in Silo's cast, Lukas does not make his series debut until season 1, episode 4, "Truth." This episode's title is a fitting time for Lukas to be introduced, given his curiosity about the truth of the outside world. When Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) becomes the new sheriff of Silo 18 and begins spending more time in the upper levels, she encounters Lukas in one of the cafeterias.

Juliette learns that Lukas goes to the cafeteria every night to study the lights in the sky, which he does not know are called stars. Given his intellect, natural curiosity, and his career of working as an analyst in the It Department, Lukas becomes a useful ally to Juliette.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Silo season 2.Silo's mines are often shrouded in mystery and only mentioned in specific circumstances, but the show quietly reveals enough about the location to make them just the right level of enigmatic. The mines are discussed by several members of the Silo cast but rarely in a positive light. So, despite the importance of the setting, it's not considered a desirable destination for the residents of the show's titular structure. As one of the grittiest Apple TV+ sci-fi shows, Silo boasting a location like the mines is certainly on brand.

Despite several Silo book changes, the adaptation has largely remained faithful to the series of novels by Hugh Howey. So, most of what happens onscreen can be found in the pages of the source material. This includes the mines. Apple TV+'s method of drip-feeding information about Silo's mines is a brilliant way to build tension,...

Mechanical go to meet with Judge Meadows in Silo season 2, episode 4. You just knew that everything was going to go wrong.

Caution: This post contains Spoilers from Silo season 2, episode 4.

The latest episode is a great lesson in propaganda and trusting the wrong people. It’s also a great lesson in how a lack of information can lead to the manipulation of people. This episode certainly connects to the world around us, as we see how disinformation and manipulation via social media is having an affect on choices and actions.

As with the previous episode, this one was split between the two silos. We had a chance to see Juliette continue her mission to get back to her home. She needs to save her people, her silo. This could become drawn out if it’s not careful, though.

Silo season 2 Solo helps Juliette until he panics in Silo season 2, episode...

The fourth episode of Silo's second season, "The Harmonium," is a pivotal turning point. Over the past few weeks we've watched as Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) arrived at the neighboring Silo 17 and befriended Solo (Steve Zahn), the last living survivor of his Silo and her only hope of getting the materials she needs to build a suit to return home. Meanwhile, rebellion is brewing in Silo 18. As people demand answers and Mayor Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) is forced to crack down, he makes a shocking power play that puts Knox (Shane McRae) and Shirley (Remmie Milner) in the crossfire.

It should surprise no one that "The Harmonium" is another great episode of Silo, even if it does bid farewell to one of my new favorite characters. Read on for our review, which contains Spoilers.

Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) in Silo season 2. | Image: Apple TV+. Silo Episode 204 review: "The Harmonium...

You may sometimes find characters making very odd choices on screen and saying vague things, which don’t really make much sense to you until the right time comes. I think it wouldn’t be wrong to assume that Judge Mary Meadows was indeed one such character. You see, curiosity isn’t something you are born with. Instead, it develops over time as you lead a very lonely, mundane life. I guess that explains Meadows’ childlike enthusiasm for the red-level relics and her curiosity to find out what the actual world looks like, before everyone was packed inside a metal-like structure. And before dying, Meadows just had one desire: to see the real natural world, and she was ready to go to any length to do so.

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In the fourth episode of Silo season 2, moments before her death, Meadows revealed that the hard drive that George Wilkins had...

In the 3rd episode of Silo Season 2, Juliette learned about the fate of Silo 17 from its sole survivor, Solo. He explained the obvious by stating how the lack of information about the world beyond the silo and the fake video on the visor of the cleaner led to a rebellion, which in turn caused the demise of the silo’s residents. Bernard took the measurements for Meadows’ suit and promised her that he’d sneak her out of Silo 18 when nobody was watching so that her escape wouldn’t trigger a reaction similar to that of Juliette’s survival. Robert Sims orchestrated a war between Mechanical and the people hailing from the Mids and Up Top in order to rule the former with fear. But the plan backfired as Cooper got killed, thereby strengthening the resolve of the Deep Downers. Meanwhile, Pete Nichols began his own rebellion against It...

With the death of Cooper, Mechanical needs to get together. Meanwhile, Juliette needs to find a way to save her silo in Silo season 2, episode 4.

The previous episode ended with some major moments. Cooper is dead after being shot by the Raiders. The one thing that this could do is pull Knox and Shirley back on the same side. Knox has a feeling he knows what the names on the wall are all about now, and we’ll get to find out what his theory is in the new episode.

Mechanical wants to meet with Judge Meadows in Silo season 2, episode 4

Whatever the names mean, it does look like Knox and Shirley will get back on the same side. They want to meet with Judge Meadows. They view her as the one to lead the Silo. She’s the one who has the trust of the people, and they need...