Silo’ Season 2, Episode 3 Review
Episode three of ‘Silo’ adds some extra tension as things begin moving in Silo 18, and the possibility of violent conflict becomes more and more likely.
After an entire first episode devoted to Juliette, followed by one focussed on the residents of Silo 18, this episode decides to combine both and flick between the two. In the silo, tension is rising as a guy is arrested for spraying graffiti saying Juliette is alive, which leads to an attack on the sheriff’s station, and the death of Terry, Juliett’s shadow.
It’s clear there are divisions in the silo, despite the talk of everyone being equal, and no job being more important than another. There’s an element of independence in the down deep not seen on the other levels. Authority isn’t as present there, and they often have their own ways of dealing with things, partly because of their harder lifestyle. This is a good thing ordinarily, but now it’s not helping. You can understand why they are angry at Juliette being sent out to clean and appearing to survive, as most were her friends and colleagues, but starting a revolt or shutting down the generator won’t get them any of the answers they want or stop Judicial cracking down hard on them.
In spite of everything, it looks like Meadows might have been a better choice for mayor at this point. She wants a more nuanced approach to dealing with the unrest, not the heavy-handed tactics of Holland, which is likely to push engineering towards more violence and disobedience. While the shady, thuggish administration of the silo isn’t a good way to run things, an all-out revolt that leads to the opening of the silo would only mean death for all of its residents.
It’s a funny thing, but if you’d asked me to watch a show where a substantial part of its first three episodes was devoted to the main character talking to a pair of eyes through a locked door, I wouldn’t have thought you were serious, yet these scenes provide for some of the most entertaining viewing I’ve seen recently.
Watching Juliette and “Solo” conversing through the locked vault door is shown how ‘Silo’ can manage to do quite a lot with very little. Now she’s managed to convince him to come out, it only looks to get more interesting. Who knows how unstable he is after spending so long alone, and what he might do if she tries to leave. Will he really help her return to Silo 18, leaving him alone once again? And what might she be able to find out about the silos, when and why they were built, and by who. If he’s the shadow of the top guy, then he should know these things, or at least have some relics that could provide more clues. Regardless, she still needs to return to 18 as soon as possible, to try and stop it descending into chaos.
It’s interesting that in season one, it was the third episode where things really kicked off, and a similar thing seems to have happened again. The stakes have been raised, new and intriguing information has been revealed, and the tension has been cranked up. The fate of most of the main characters could hang in the balance, and all depend on whether the real truth can be revealed.