Apple TV+ today unveiled the trailer for “Silo,” the gripping, world-building Apple Original drama based on Hugh Howey’s New York Times bestselling trilogy of dystopian novels, starring an ensemble cast led by Rebecca Ferguson (“Dune,” “Mission: Impossible” films), who also serves as an executive producer. Created by Emmy-nominated screenwriter Graham Yost (“Band of Brothers,” “Justified”), who also serves as showrunner, the 10-episode series will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, May 5, 2023 with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday through June 30, 2023.
“Silo” is the story of the last ten thousand people on earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. However, no one knows when or why the silo was built and any who try to find out face fatal consequences. Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer, who seeks answers about a loved one’s murder and tumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to discover that if the lies don’t kill you, the truth will.
The ensemble cast starring alongside Ferguson includes Common (“The Chi”), Emmy nominee Harriet Walter (“Succession”), Chinaza Uche (“Dickinson”), Avi Nash (“The Walking Dead”), Critics Choice Award and NAACP winner David Oyelowo (“Selma”), Emmy nominee Rashida Jones (“Parks and Recreation”) and Academy Award winner Tim Robbins (“Mystic River”).
“Silo” is produced for Apple TV+ by AMC Studios and based on the novels by Hugh Howey. The series is executive produced by Yost, Howey and Ferguson, alongside Academy Award nominee Morten Tyldum (“Defending Jacob,” “The Imitation Game”) who also directs the first three episodes, Nina Jack, Fred Golan, Rémi Aubuchon and Ingrid Escajeda.
Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all your favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have earned 348 wins and 1,440 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and historic Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”
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The Silo‘s Juliette is Donald Trump.
The single funniest thing I’ve read on the internet all day. By far.
(Also the stupidest.)
streaming content is such a stupid waste of Apple’s focus. Apple streaming content is mostly boring and safe. who really cares about any but a few of their shows and in a few years most of apple’s content will have the viewership appeal of the 1990 show E.A.R.T.H. force.
Apple’s programming is quintessential milquetoast: the pervasive leftist worldview, the forced diversity of a cornucopia of ethnicities that you never encounter together in real life, the strong female characters who outwit and out-wise men at every turn, it’s not even provocative, just boring and fake. They have their own problems as a series but having watched the first 3 episodes of each, I think Yosemite and 1923 both are more compelling than anything Apple has produced for all those billions of dollars.
You NEVER encounter a diversity of ethnicities? Guess you don’t live or work in any of the nation’s major cities. Living in a melting pot is part of what has ALWAYS made America great.
And I don’t know what shows you’ve been watching, but of all the best series and movies on AppleTV+ — “Ted Lasso,” “Severance,” “Shrinking,” “Mythic Quest,” “CODA,” “For All Mankind,” “See,” “Foundation,” “Servant,” “Blackbird,” “Slow Horses,” “Causeway,” “Five Days at Memorial,” “Greyhound,” etc. — exactly NONE of them had female characters “who outwit and out-wise men at every turn.”
It’s possible that Apple’s dive into creating their own Intellectual Property is a waste of time and resources. But they probably said the same thing when a relatively small animation studio got into the amusement park business 70 years ago, and that’s turned out pretty well, so you never know.