Warning: this article contains spoilers for Silo season 2.Silo, Apple TV+’s hit series, recently finished airing its sophomore season to widespread acclaim. The story centers on people living in a class-divided 144-story underground silo after an unknown event destroyed the outside world. Season 2 follows Juliette Nichols' (Rebecca Ferguson) as she explores Silo 17 and eventually determines to return to 18, while simultaneously chronicling the division occurring in Silo 18 between Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) and his allies and Juliette’s allies in the “down deep,” leading toSiloseason 2’s cliffhanger ending.
BecauseSiloseason 3and 4 have already been confirmed, audiences can count on the mysteries of the silos being further unraveled. However, the ending flashback scene ofSilo’s finale raises just as many questions as it helps answer. The sequence showstwo newSilocharacters, seemingly in the time before the Earth was destroyed, discussing a dirty bomb that had been detonated in the US and the potential retaliation. This flashback scene helps provide information about what led humanity to the silos in the first place, but incorporating the additional timeline could also be risky forSiloseason 3.
A Timeline Set Before The Apocalypse In Silo Season 3 Risks Repeating Season 2’s Pacing Issues
A New Timeline Could Give The Series Too Many Competing Focuses
While on the whole,Siloseason 2 was very well received, one aspect that did draw some criticism is the pacing of Juliette’s scenes in Silo 17. Some of her scenes felt a bit slow compared to the rising stakes for all the characters in Silo 18. Sinceit has already been confirmed that the congressman and Helen have been added to the cast forSiloseason 3, it seems likely that they will be an important part of the story. This means that, like season 2,Siloseason 3 will be split between different characters' stories.
Silo Season 2 Quietly Retconned A Major Piece Of Lore Established In Season 1
Silo 18’s physical infrastructure is strongly established in the show’s first season, but the latest run on Apple TV+ has made a big change.
Maintaining this divided narrative set-up could lead to similar problems with the show’s pacing in season 3. Especiallyif Juliette goes back to Silo 17or if the series continues their story in another way, adding a third story feels risky. If there are too many different locations and times, it might make it hard forSiloto give enough attention to each of them. However, it would also be disappointing if either the characters in Silo 17 were ignored or the flashback was not satisfactorily explained. Thus,Siloseason 3 will have to find a balance in telling all the stories at once.
Why Silo Season 3’s Flashback Story Is Much More Important To The Overall Show
The Flashback Story Could Explain Crucial Silo History That Has Been Missing
Though parts of Juliette’s time in Silo 17 were interesting and the unexpected introduction of characters in the destroyed silo gave Juliette new people to interact with, it still kept her from the primary conflict occurring in Silo 18. Additionally, given that some moments were not really useful in the plot, her time in 17 could have been shortened to see her return home to 18 sooner.
Siloseason 3 has the potential to finally explore who the founders were and why people had to enter the silos in the first place, which will be incredibly satisfying for viewers waiting years for those answers.
However,the flashback story has a lot more potential to answer long-running questions than Juliette’s time in Silo 17 did, making it more crucial to the plot. Given that theSilobook seriesdoes weave together Juliette’s story with information about what happened before the creation of the silos, season 3 seems likely to explain a lot more of those details through its new characters.
Siloseason 3 has the potential to finally explore who the founders were and why people had to enter the silos in the first place, which will be incredibly satisfying for viewers waiting years for those answers. Additionally, once the silo’s past is fully explored,Silowill finally be able to address how it impacts the residents' decisions going forward.
