Silo (2023)
Silo is a 2023 sci-fi & fantasy series created by Graham Yost and Atli Örvarsson. It stars Rebecca Ferguson, Common and Chinaza Uche.
Ten thousand people live sealed inside a buried silo of 144 levels, told the air outside is poison and that curiosity about the world above is the gravest crime. When the community's uneasy order cracks, engineer Juliette Nichols, played by Rebecca Ferguson, finds herself pulled from the machine rooms toward questions nobody is allowed to ask. Adapted from Hugh Howey's novels by Graham Yost, the series builds its dread from procedure and silence: how a society polices memory, who controls the one camera trained on the ruined surface, and what a wrench can pry loose.
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What is Silo about?
Ten thousand people live sealed inside a buried silo of 144 levels, told the air outside is poison and that curiosity about the world above is the gravest crime. When the community's uneasy order cracks, engineer Juliette Nichols, played by Rebecca Ferguson, finds herself pulled from the machine rooms toward questions nobody is allowed to ask. Adapted from Hugh Howey's novels by Graham Yost, the series builds its dread from procedure and silence: how a society polices memory, who controls the one camera trained on the ruined surface, and what a wrench can pry loose.
When was Silo released?
Silo was released on 4 May 2023.
How many episodes does Silo have?
Silo has 30 episodes across 4 seasons.
Who made Silo?
Silo was created by Graham Yost, Atli Örvarsson and Jenny DeArmitt-Stran.
Where can I watch Silo?
Silo is available on AppleTV+.
Where to watch Silo
Stream: AppleTV+
Cast
- Rebecca Ferguson as Juliette Nichols
- Common as Robert Sims
- Chinaza Uche as Paul Billings
- Tim Robbins as Bernard Holland
- Billy Postlethwaite as Hank
- Remmie Milner as Shirley Campbell
- Shane McRae as Knox
- Alexandria Riley as Camille Sims
- Harriet Walter as Martha Walker
- Avi Nash as Lukas Kyle
- Rick Gomez as Patrick Kennedy
- Caitlin Zoz as Kathleen Billings
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A few thoughts on Silo
The claustrophobia carries across media. BioShock drops you into another sealed society built on a lie, all rusted grandeur and dark bargains. Half-Life 2 shares the mood of a policed dystopia probing its own rules, and Portal turns a locked-down facility into a puzzle with secrets underneath. For readers, The Scorch Trials keeps young survivors moving through a lethal, engineered world.
Sealed societies built on a controlling lie
Silo traps ten thousand people underground, told the surface is poison and curiosity is a crime. These series build the same kind of managed world, where an authority decides what everyone is allowed to know and a few people start pulling at the rules holding their whole society in place.
Rebellions against a system that polices the truth
Juliette's real weapon in Silo is a question no one is supposed to ask. These stories center that same friction, following people who chip at an official version of reality, from a controlled future to a machine-run illusion, and pay for wanting to see what lies past the wall.
Descend into a sealed world that wants you gone
Half of Silo's dread is architectural, a spiral of levels and one camera trained on the ruined outside. These games and manga share that feeling of a controlled, enclosed place turning hostile, whether a sunken city, a locked test facility, or a bottomless pit that hides its worst secrets the deeper you go.
Life after the world outside ended
Silo keeps the ruined surface just out of reach, a world its people are told they cannot survive. These stories step into that aftermath directly, following survivors who cross a broken landscape or a wrecked planet, holding onto scraps of the old world while working out what really happened to it.