With “Foundation,” “Invasion,” “Severance,” and, now, “Silo” garnering rave reviews it appears Apple TV+ has found its niche: science fiction.
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. Rebecca 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.
Is “Silo” worth streaming?
Yes. As you can see from the trailer above, it’s a big-budget show that looks fantastic – and the reviewers say there’s substance to match the style. The Age says it’s “an elegant, immersive puzzle”, while The Globe and Mail praises Ferguson’s performance as “a hero of steel nerves and unbreakable determination.”
Over at Decider, Nicole Gallucci says it’s “a suspenseful series that has the vibes of Desmond’s Hatch on “LOST” and other genre greats like “Snowpiercer,” and it also touches on some of the themes of claustrophobia and surveillance you’ll also encounter in Apple’s superb “Severance.”
MacDailyNews Take: We like “Silo” so far and recommend the first two episodes, now streaming only n Apple TV+.
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More than likely another woke trap. All apple shows eventually turn into woke crap. They try to hide that in the beginning and lure you in and spring it on you. Not even bothering to try watching anymore apple shows. Will not get a subscription and good riddance to yet another free trial.
https://www.screengeek.net/2023/02/03/the-last-of-us-director-trick-viewers-gay-love-story/
MDN for whatever reason looks the other way, but appleTV is a woke crap trap.
Wow, twisted AND bitter. How do you live with yourself?
Perhaps MDN doesn’t get wrapped up in some anti-woke issues that don’t define it.
Shut up Nazi
Yes, because Nazi’s went round asking people why they are so bitter an twisted…. oh no they didn’t did they.. but they did go round belittling people and freedom of thought.. which is kinda what you just did ‘Zombie’ or is it ‘GoeB’…
Nazis like forcing woke bs and supporting it. Not my fault what you march to Nazi.
Sounds like a Nazi is someone who doesn’t agree with you to me. You need therapy
Wait — you think the Nazis were too “woke”? Man, did Zombie sleep through history class or what?
Godwin’s Law lobs to first base!
You’re Out!
The Silo‘s Juliette is Donald J. Trump.
Hey, First Then: I know I am a bit late replying to your post, but I had to let you know that this is—without question—both the dumbest thing you have ever posted on MDN AND the funniest thing I have seen online in many, many years, regardless of authorship. I have not laughed so hard looking at a computer screen since I first saw “The Passion of Benny Hill” on YouTube about 15 years ago. This is an accomplishment you should, for once, be proud of. The depth of the inanity in this analogy, coupled with all that it reveals about your psyche, would have the crowd at the Friar’s Club rolling in the aisles. Really, all I can say is “wowza!” and thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have restored my lack of faith in the future of humanity.
Donald Trump is most likely Therman, the one who doomed them all to live there
I’ll try it and see. The trailer shows that the production values look OK, but as for any ‘woke’ content, well, the proof will be in the viewing.
Oh look, another bitter republican. I wish you could just take a time machine back to the 50’s and live happily. What a trash comment lol
Define the “woke” ad hominem to convince us that you know what it is.
My initial thought if Apple produces quality Sci-Fi (my fav) without all the preachy WOKE CRAP, will consider a subscription. And just then, I woke up…
you ‘woke’ up! ha ha ha… see what you did there… cleaver… smart that is…. now go and watch some more ATN.
I like to binge shows after there are more episodes out, but maybe I’ll dive in.
btw, the “woke” comments (other than for this season of Ted Lasso which yeah, kinda got gratuitously “enlightened”) are ridiculous.
who wants to watch TV shows that are in a “cultural silo” …
What a joke. Allllll the shows are woke. That is a Nazi cultural silo and gutter.
“woke” is a liberal slur. Nazi’s were (are) about as far right on the spectrum as you can get. Woke Nazi is an oxymoron. Tough to take you seriously.
Educate yourself. Nazis were national socialists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
Nothing has changed. Just people didn’t learn from history.
Love how your reference underscores how badly you understand and use the word. You should refrain from posting until you understand wtf you are writing about.
Nazi’s were extreme Socialists, which is left.
The Nazis weren’t socialists, they just took over the existing party, booted out and jailed its former leaders and then went on to snuff out actual socialists and communists, along with union leaders and everyone else who wanted equality and democracy. More than anything else, the Nazis were white nationalists. Killing all the non-Aryans in the country — and trying to do the same for the whole world — doesn’t strike me as very “socialist,” in the sense of what we think of socialism as it’s practiced today.
Don’t be fooled by the party’s name. The “Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea,” a North Korean group, is certainly not about democracy. Neither is China’s People’s Liberation Army. Same with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (aka, North Vietnam’s official name).
Groups may call themselves anything they want. It’s their actions, not their chosen names, that define them.
Bravo. At least someone in the room has an IQ greater than room temperature.
zombie proves again and again that he has no grasp of facts and zero ability to get along with anyone.
Sherman: if you read zombie’s backup material, the very first sentence states the NAZI party was “far-right”. That is universally accepted knowledge. You should be smart enough to understand the difference between the former worker’s party and the later 1920-1945 paramilitary white nationalist zenophobes who took over that party without changing the name, then proceeded to embark on a genocide campaign that destroyed their own country at the urging of a populist blow hard autocrat that misled his followers from the first printing of his miserable book.
The only difference between then and now is one guy had bigger ambitions, a single mistress, had an art collection larger than most museums, and could write in complete sentences. The modern fuhrer wannabe just wings his meandering speeches and then goes golfing, passing by his one piece of “art”, a painting of himself paid with campaign contributions.
Zombie/GoeB loves lamp…
And you love being a Nazi
You know nothing of my politics. But we know you can’t stand people who don’t agree with you.
You sound like an intolerant, bigot.
How many cuts can you fit into one trailer? Why are there never sensors in sifi shows, or sifi scripts, to tell people that their space suits will fail if they, in this case, go outside, before they go outside…if I’m interpreting the fractions of a second scene where the suit is dropping to their knees. Looks more agitating than entertaining. I think I’ll stick to the slow Severance burn.
Dystopian future? Look around you now!!
Dystopian??? You got the corporatist-led society that Eisenhower warned you about. Both major political parties in the USA are bought and owned by corporations and prioritize their welfare over everything else. That is why all the richest people on the planet are corporate executives and the other 99% of society feels like they are sliding into poverty.
If you don’t like the fact that corporations rule the world with impunity, maybe you should put down the “I hate government “ sign and get on board with those who want government to work efficiently and competently for the individual citizens over the greedy interests of the multinational corporations. You’ll never get a future you like if you leave all decisions in the hands of unelected corporate kleptomaniacs.
The show is OK, not great. Kind of reminds me of the game Myst. Lots of gratuitous cliff-hangers.
“LOST” centered on a mysterious silo. The stories were sadistic, fear-based, selfish, sociopathic, and vindictive, all Rightwinger Ultra-MAGA (as election-denying Boebert calls herself) values. I suspect that the writers took pleasure in wallowing in, and inflicting us with, their own Narcissistic personality disorder, (NPD). I broke away from that lowest-common-denominator TV show after I realized the full gamut of its negativity. So that’s why I am dubious of Silo’s positive values.