Hi!
I was wondering if any of you all have seen the SILO apple tv series and what you all thought about it. I’m a bit late to the party, but thought it was a fun, mystery, sci-fi show with a cool premise.
“In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep; there, people live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.”
As well, has anyone read the book series? Does it have a satisfying ending? I’m interested to check it out, but don’t want to spoil myself. I’m debating just following along as a fun, intriguing, tv series rather than investing into the books.
I thought the world and the production really great, and the world feels very lived in. Set design was cool and I enjoyed how its shot. Without going into spoilers, I found the central premise very interesting, and the constant question of what’s outside the SILO and whos pulling the strings quite an enjoyable thread to pull at. I do think it relied a bit too much on dramatic irony for tension, and think that when reveals are made to characters, they fall a bit flat since often the viewers know ahead of time.
I loved Rashida Jones in the first couple episodes, and found her performance really believable. I initially didn’t really like the main character of Juliette Nichols, but thought her characterization really improves with the last 3 episodes of the season.
Looking forward to season 2
I was in the process of reading the book when I heard about the series. All I have to say is that , once again with tv adaptations, the writers are doing fan fiction. So while the premise amd character names are the same, too many characters have wildly different motivations and arcs. I don’t want to go to into spoilers so I’ll leave it at that. The books are way more interesting. The show dives too much into overused tropes like “forbidden love” and “protect the family”. Same thing happened to the Witcher series. A bunch of writers couldn’t hold back their ego on reinventing the material that already existed that was actually great and what the audience loved.
So yeah read it if you liked the series, it’s all better
Thanks, thats a strong recommendation, I will definitely check it out!
It agree, the threatened harm to love one’s as a means to fall in line was a bit overdone, but probably realistic.
It’s also not at all what Juliette does in the book. She’s almost entirely motivated by Holston’s cleaning and it’s myatery. Also the whole Peter Billings scared for his family and his “syndrome” doesn’t exist. The whole point of the book is critical people questionning their way of life that find and help each other out. The show is really lazily written by people who did not understand or knew the source material. And that whole “big brother” camera room is a fucking joke. Bernard is a much better antagonist in the novel. No need for Sims as the ruthless killer that loves his son(sôooooo fucking dumb) and the judge that actually was invented for the show. He easily fit those three parts and that makes for a more fleshed out and complex character, just like real life. But ok I’ll stop, I’m just tired of poor writers butcheringn an already existing amd well thought out book. There is no excuse, they’re just writing by numbers.
My only problem with the show is: if they’ve all been living for generations in this silo, why do they have such varied accents?
I think it’s more of an issue that Juliette and her father’s actors couldn’t quite scrub their natural accents very well for the show. If you notice, young Juliette’s actress had an american accent which adult Juliette does not.
The mayor also had an English accent. And even beyond that, the American accents are different from each other as well and aren’t as homogeneous as they should be considering the setting. Its distracting.
Good point! I see that as a missed oppurtunity to reinforce the segregation and control, i.e. the people in Mechanical are so segregated from the people up top, and that’s even in how they talk. but tbh that doesn’t really track, they all just talk different. would have been cool, kinda like how accent is addressed in the Expanse