Silo Season 3's New Characters Are Risky, But The Potential Payoff Is Worth It
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 to Silo season 2's cliffhanger ending.
Because Silo season 3 and 4 have already been confirmed, audiences can count on the mysteries of the silos being further unraveled. However, the ending flashback scene of Silo's finale raises just as many questions as it helps answer. The sequence shows two new Silo characters, 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 for Silo season 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, Silo season 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. Since it has already been confirmed that the congressman and Helen have been added to the cast for Silo season 3, it seems likely that they will be an important part of the story. This means that, like season 2, Silo season 3 will be split between different characters' stories.
Maintaining this divided narrative set-up could lead to similar problems with the show's pacing in season 3. Especially if Juliette goes back to Silo 17 or 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 for Silo to 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, Silo season 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.
Silo season 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 the Silo book series does 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.
Silo season 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, Silo will finally be able to address how it impacts the residents' decisions going forward.
Silo
- Release Date
- May 5, 2023
- Showrunner
- Graham Yost
- Directors
- Morten Tyldum, David Semel
Cast
Rebecca FergusonJuliette Nichols
CommonRobert Sims
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