Apple Series - Silo s1 (2023) [+]
Oct 11 2023
Silo season one is a 10-episode hour-long (more or less) drama on Apple TV+. The setting is a giant underground post-apocalyptic survivalist silo at least 140 years after a big revolt (so the Silo is older than that). Ten thousand people eke a living, though pretty much living recognizable normal lives (e.g. there is police and an IT department and small retail "stores").
The first episode turns out to be a bit of a preview, set a year or so prior. The sheriff (head of the police department, though the real power is the Justice Department's enforcers) and his wife (David Oyelowo and Rashida Jones) have this storyline where they're trying to have a baby (birth control is mandated by the government in order to keep the population at 10k) but not succeeding. The wife is an IT Department specialist and is asked by a "rebel" to examine an old hard drive (all tech is rigorously controlled and most research/inventions are strictly prohibited) which turns out to be pre-Revolution.
We culminate with the wife and later the sheriff asking to "go out". Every citizen can ask to leave the Silo but once stated it's an irrevocable decision. The citizen is ceremoniously fitted with a hazardous environment suit and given some cleaning supplies. They are asked to clean the outside video camera that shows the dead world outside. Apparently everybody, even if they insist they won't clean, end up cleaning the video camera. Then they try to walk around and die and that's what happens to the wife and sheriff.
Episode two the Silo needs a new sheriff and for some reason the old sheriff nominated Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson), a blunt-speaking lead mechanical engineer working at the bottom of the Silo where they have the power generator and air pumps and such. Juliette has a vested interest in the job as she wants to solve the murder of her secret lover, which the sheriff was investigating before he decided to "go out".
The rest of the season is Juliette, essentially an outsider, trying to investigate the murder (which nobody wants her to investigate) while somehow doing her job. She starts uncovering secrets and a conspiracy about who really rules the Silo and we get a cliffhanger sort of season ending.
It's a fairly interesting series since there are many questions that as they are investigated lead to more questions. The environment and culture of the Silo is also interesting as even with only 10k people there is a stratification of society. Also there's the big question of whether or not it's actually safe to go outside.
Hopefully season two will still be interesting. You need to make it different for variety but not too different to turn it into a different sort of story.
The first episode turns out to be a bit of a preview, set a year or so prior. The sheriff (head of the police department, though the real power is the Justice Department's enforcers) and his wife (David Oyelowo and Rashida Jones) have this storyline where they're trying to have a baby (birth control is mandated by the government in order to keep the population at 10k) but not succeeding. The wife is an IT Department specialist and is asked by a "rebel" to examine an old hard drive (all tech is rigorously controlled and most research/inventions are strictly prohibited) which turns out to be pre-Revolution.
We culminate with the wife and later the sheriff asking to "go out". Every citizen can ask to leave the Silo but once stated it's an irrevocable decision. The citizen is ceremoniously fitted with a hazardous environment suit and given some cleaning supplies. They are asked to clean the outside video camera that shows the dead world outside. Apparently everybody, even if they insist they won't clean, end up cleaning the video camera. Then they try to walk around and die and that's what happens to the wife and sheriff.
Episode two the Silo needs a new sheriff and for some reason the old sheriff nominated Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson), a blunt-speaking lead mechanical engineer working at the bottom of the Silo where they have the power generator and air pumps and such. Juliette has a vested interest in the job as she wants to solve the murder of her secret lover, which the sheriff was investigating before he decided to "go out".
The rest of the season is Juliette, essentially an outsider, trying to investigate the murder (which nobody wants her to investigate) while somehow doing her job. She starts uncovering secrets and a conspiracy about who really rules the Silo and we get a cliffhanger sort of season ending.
It's a fairly interesting series since there are many questions that as they are investigated lead to more questions. The environment and culture of the Silo is also interesting as even with only 10k people there is a stratification of society. Also there's the big question of whether or not it's actually safe to go outside.
Hopefully season two will still be interesting. You need to make it different for variety but not too different to turn it into a different sort of story.