In recent years, we have literally been inundated with countless dystopian content. In addition to many films, series of this subgenre are being printed on a large scale, and the series “Silo” was filmed based on the SF literary series by Hugh Howley, started in 2011. In two years, Howley printed an incredible eight books and clearly has the potential for the series, whose creator is the experienced Canadian Graham Yost, who was particularly successful in the nineties with action films such as “Speed”, “Broken Arrow” and “Heavy Rain”, to then slightly out of shape, lasts for a long, long time.
Yost is no stranger to sci-fi content either, as he was one of the screenwriters of the already almost forgotten De Palma’s “Mission to Mars”, and “Silo” is a content that somewhat reminded me of genre classics such as “Brave New World”, “Snowpiercer” and “Blade Runner”. The plot is set in a dystopian future where the surviving humanity is housed in a huge above-ground and underground silo that stretches over 144 floors. The remaining ten thousand people crowded in there and in order to survive they live in a strictly structured society that was built to protect its inhabitants.
Of course, that’s the official version, but we’ll soon realize that it’s a covert dictatorship whose goal is to keep people in the dark for as long as possible so that they can rule over them. Problems will arise when this covert dictatorship tries to stop being covert, and individual silo-dwellers will begin to realize this. All the inhabitants of the silos are taught that the outside world is poisonous and that it is impossible to survive outside, and one of the main rules is that anyone who wants to go outside and see for himself can do so, provided that he first cleans the window to the outside world. Also, in this silo there are no traces of the previous time and how the world used to be, and after the sheriff (David Oyelowo) and his wife (Rashida Jones) start to think that the official version is a lie, similar ideas will roll in among the rest of the population. .
After they get out, the new sheriff will be Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson), a rebellious mechanic who mostly lives underground and makes sure that the complex machine that keeps them all alive works. When she is appointed sheriff, Juliette will also launch her own internal investigation into the mysterious death of her lover, who got hold of a forbidden artifact, i.e. a hard disk. Slowly she will uncover an incredible conspiracy, and the judicial authority that actually rules the entire silo led by the head of the IT sector Bernard (Tim Robbins) will realize that it may have been wrong to put her in charge of the police. So even though the premise of “The Force” was intriguing and promising, the first season didn’t excite me too much. Maybe it’s because we’ve already had the opportunity to watch a lot of relatively similar content, but since the filming of the second season has already been approved, maybe the story will continue to develop.