Presented at the opening of the sixth edition of Canneséries on April 14, Silo, the new SF nugget from Apple TV+, is finally available on the platform this Friday, May 5. Created by Graham Yost (Band of Brothers, Justified), led by Swedish actress and executive producer Rebecca Fergusonaround which we find a four-star cast including comedians David Oyelowo (Selma, The Last King of Scotland), Avi Nash (The Walking Dead), Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation) or even Tim Robbins (Mystic River), Silo is a post-apocalyptic survivalist story as gripping as it is exciting.
Silo: what is the Apple TV+ series about?
Adapted from the eponymous literary trilogy by Hugh Howey, this dystopian thriller in ten episodes takes us to a future where the Earth is devastated, because it has become unbreathable. The ten thousand survivors live a kilometer deep below the earth’s surface, in a giant underground silo more than 140 stories high, to protect themselves from the outside world, which has become toxic and deadly. Nobody knows when or why the silo was built, or even what is really going on outside. Only certainty: all those who try to discover it or even to leave the silo, expose themselves to certain death, in contact with the asphyxiating air. What if all of this was actually pure machination? After the death of a loved one whom she believes to have been murdered, an engineer, Juliette (played by Rebecca Ferguson) searches for answers and will get her hands on secrets she would never have imagined…
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Should I watch Silo on Apple TV+?
A bit like a Snowpiercer – a community governed by castes and according to strict rules, within which a rebellion will soon break out -, Silo, through its scenario that is both mysterious and realistic, plunges the viewer into a camera as intriguing, disturbing as suffocating, and this from the first minutes. Evolving in sticky sets, enhanced with ambitious special effects, actress Rebecca Ferguson, as determined and tough as a Sigourney Weaver like Ellen Ripley in Alien, fights (de)bat, not against a drooling monster, but in a desperate quest for truth. And freedom. Classic prerogative of the SF genre will you tell us? Possible. But who hooks you irremediably. It remains to be seen if the series will keep the same intensity over time. Because if the first two episodes are available from this May 5, the following will be broadcast at the rate of one episode each Friday, until June 30 next.
