I already miss what made the first season of Silo so good

Warning: spoilers ahead for Silo Season 2, episodes 1 and 2!Although I’m enjoying it Silo Season 2, I can’t help but miss the best part of what I loved so much about the first series of 2023 episodes. Silo cast remaining largely unchanged, the show isn’t appealing to me as much as it once did. While it’s great that the characters stayed in place, I can’t help but feel that Apple TV+ hasn’t been able to recapture the magic of a particular storyline. Let’s hope the end Silo the first season will not come back to haunt the show’s future potential.

Although Apple TV+ Silo the adaptation made several changes to Hugh Howey’s books, the overall story remained largely the same. So I suppose the show was always destined to go the way it did. Regardless, I remember watching Silo Season 1 with the immediate opinion that it was one of the best in Apple TV+’s impressive collection of sci-fi shows. I was impatiently waiting for each new episode to air. Unfortunately, this time I’m not feeling the same level of joyful tension, and I know exactly why.

The external mystery of Silo season 1 made the show much more interesting

Apple TV+’s current run of episodes lacks the same level of intrigue

Silo The entire plot of the first season was built around the mystery of what the outside world was really like. From the flickering screen inside Silo 18 to the recovered images of those sent for cleaning, the show kept me constantly wondering if the surface was safe. I hadn’t read the book, so I had no idea what the truth was, and every time I thought I had it figured out, the show would throw me another curveball. The big reveal that the surface was genuinely uninhabitable was incredible, but the build up to that point had set an incredibly high standard.

So far, Silo season 2 simply dealt with the fallout from Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) being able to survive outsideand everyone slowly discovering that the top heat tape on her suit was what allowed her to take it off. This is understandable given the fact that the series picks up right where the first season ended, but it fell a lot flatter for me than I expected. I find myself longing for the days when I was gloriously left in the dark instead of witnessing Tim Robbins’s Bernard Holland carry out his mayoral duties.

Silo Season 2’s Mysteries Aren’t That Interesting

Juliette’s exploration and Bernard’s political issues are not equal substitutes

Silo Season 2 is clearly aware of the fact that it had to replace the puzzle of whether the surface was safe as it introduced a host of new mysteries. For example, there is clearly more going on in the silent conflict between Bernard and Sims in Silo Season 2, and the identity of the man Juliette finds hiding in the safe really intrigues me. Unfortunately, None of the replacement stories match the biggest twist of Silo season 1.

I think the show could have also done a better job of hiding what happened with the flooded Silo that Juliette stumbled into, at least for a while. While it was interesting to see how the other community quickly fell into disarray, I think discovering the cause and progression of the violent rebellion would have been more rewarding if it was analyzed throughout the episode, or even throughout the season. Instead, the Silo season 2 premiere reveals everything about this particular subplot right away – which is something Silo the first season often resisted.

There’s still plenty of time for Silo season 2 to improve

I understand that my Silo season 2’s complaints might be considered a bit premature. The last series of episodes has barely started and dividing time between two Silos was always going to be a more demanding task. Also, one of the biggest reasons I discovered Silo The first season was so incredible that it was the slow build up of information that was initially considered inconsequential in the larger scheme of things. Then, I’ll just have to trust the process and wait Silo season 2 repeats the same structure as its predecessor and gradually the intrigue increases.

There is also the possibility of I loved Silo Season 1 so much that I kind of put it on a pedestal in my headwhich would always make it difficult for me to enjoy a side dish as much. The end of Season 1 hit me so hard that I obviously needed more time to reset than I thought, and the new episodes are giving me that. Silo The tenth and final episode of Season 2 doesn’t air until January 17, 2025 – so there’s plenty of time for the story to reach the quality of the show’s inaugural season.