Television Silo: Season 2 (Apple TV+ | November 15) - Official Sneak Peak (first 5 minutes)

[skillzdadirecta]

 

Has anyone watched this? I'm on episode four and this is very good. More people need to know about this and watch it so it doesn't get canceled.

[Brian]

I have heard good things but there is so much to watch, I have yet to start it. 

[skillzdadirecta]

44 minutes ago, Brian said:

I have heard good things but there is so much to watch, I have yet to start it. 

Watch it. It's finished already and I'm finding it to be very bingeable. Apple really is trying to become the next HBO with the consistent quality of their shows.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

10 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

Has anyone watched this? I'm on episode four and this is very good. More people need to know about this and watch it so it doesn't get canceled.

 

‘Silo’ Renewed for Season 2 at Apple

VARIETY.COM

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"Silo" has been renewed for Season 2 at Apple, Variety has learned.

 

[TheLeon]

I started watching as it was airing, but I fell off around episode 5. I don’t know why exactly, it’s not bad, I just lost interest. 

[skillzdadirecta]

1 hour ago, TheLeon said:

I started watching as it was airing, but I fell off around episode 5. I don’t know why exactly, it’s not bad, I just lost interest. 

This show is probably better binged.

[Mercury33]

I started last night and watched the first two. I’m into it. I usually love these stories until they inevitably escape whatever small post apocalyptic shelter they’re living in. Looking at you Maze Runner. 

[TwinIon]

I read the book a while ago, but didn't enjoy it enough too keep going through the series. I enjoyed the show a bit more, even knowing the secrets. The whole production is well done and does a lot to elevate the material.

 

There is one through line that pays off at the end that I didn't feel was well communicated and I'm curious if non book readers felt confused at all.

 

Season ending spoilers:

Spoiler

Were any non-book readers confused at all by the role the IT's heat tape played? It's been a long time since I read the book, but I recall the heat tape being a bigger deal.

 

[GeneticBlueprint]

My wife and I watched it and enjoyed it quite a bit. Makes me want to read the books because I don’t want to wait on the mystery. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I watched the entire season and while I fully recognize that this is an extremely high quality, well-executed production, something about it simply didn't engage me to the extent that I actively looked forward to seeing the next episode.  In a sense, it's very similar to my overall sentiments towards another high quality, well-executed Apple TV+ series: Foundation.  For me, there's just something missing at the "heart" of this series that all of their other superlative aspects really just can't seem to compensate for.

[skillzdadirecta]

I finished this today and I really enjoyed it. To the point that I'm tempted to start reading the books, but I don't want to spoil the TV show by doing so. A friend of mine has started reading the books and has already pointed out several differences between the show and the books. Provided this show is allowed to finish, maybe I'll check the books out then. There's only three.

[Firewithin]

s2 comes Nov 15th

 

 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

 

[Massdriver]

I plan to catch this in January when I resubscribe for Severance. This is on my list along with finishing the last episode of Dark Matter. 

[Jason]

Reminder that this is out now.

 

On 11/1/2024 at 9:09 PM, Massdriver said:

I plan to catch this in January when I resubscribe for Severance. This is on my list along with finishing the last episode of Dark Matter. 

 

Best Buy has three months of free Apple TV+ that's good for returning subscribers too. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-free-apple-tv-for-3-months-new-or-qualified-returning-subscribers-only/6484512.p?skuId=6484512

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

That first episode of the season could easily have been 15 minutes long and nothing of value would've been lost 

[Kal-El814]

On 7/9/2023 at 2:24 PM, TwinIon said:

I read the book a while ago, but didn't enjoy it enough too keep going through the series. I enjoyed the show a bit more, even knowing the secrets. The whole production is well done and does a lot to elevate the material.

 

There is one through line that pays off at the end that I didn't feel was well communicated and I'm curious if non book readers felt confused at all.

 

Season ending spoilers:

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Were any non-book readers confused at all by the role the IT's heat tape played? It's been a long time since I read the book, but I recall the heat tape being a bigger deal.

 

 

I haven't read the books and I'm a couple episodes away from the finale so I don't know the specific way your spoiler is going to be relevant but...

 

Spoiler

They've brought up the heat tape in at least 4 episodes of the first 8, so I've been assuming it's Chekov's tape since the second reference or so.

 

[Kal-El814]

Some spoilers for most of the first season...

 

My opinion is slightly more charitable than @Commissar SFLUFAN's. The aesthetics and acting are "prestige caliber," assuming such a thing exists and has a definition we can generally agree on. It looks REALLY good and the vibes are strong. But something is a little off. Maybe I'll be wrong and the reveals during the last 2 episodes will be bigger than I'm expecting, but the show seems to think its broader mysteries are more... mysterious than what's in the first 8 episodes would suggest. There's the reveal that the residents are being spied on which was really obvious from jump, then it's revealed that IT is in on the deception as well which seems really obvious once we know how people are being monitored.

 

This isn't a huge sin or anything and it's not like it's affecting my enjoyment of the show at all. But this is one of those rare instances where I think a shorter season is working against it. Almost everyone we spend a meaningful amount of time with is so intimately connected with the Silo's secrets and we have no time with "normal" people. There are references to something akin to a caste system in place but it's not really explored. There are lines about how people in Mechanical eat weird food but why would anyone think that in a community that's so small and things are so tightly regulated? If Common and Tim Robbins can just say "so and so said they wanted to go outside" and that would presumably be good enough to send a Sheriff outside... why so much cloak and dagger bullshit?

 

In something like Severance we see both sides of Mark's life and that context really helps. Fallout has Lucy being a fish out of water and the contrast between her and Cooper puts the broader world into context even if you haven't been playing Fallout games since the 90's. There's just SOMETHING missing here that keeps it from being a great show.

 

But it's good sci-fi so this is just whinging about high class problems.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

8 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

My opinion is slightly more charitable than @Commissar SFLUFAN's.

 

I only commented on the first episode of the second season, not the entirety of the first!

 

I do agree that this show is missing an "undefinable" element that prevents it from achieving the heights of either Severance or Fallout, but that doesn't detract significantly from its overall quality in the least!

 

I did quite enjoy the second episode of the second season!

[Kal-El814]

On 11/25/2024 at 9:39 PM, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

I only commented on the first episode of the second season, not the entirety of the first!

 

I do agree that this show is missing an "undefinable" element that prevents it from achieving the heights of either Severance or Fallout, but that doesn't detract significantly from its overall quality in the least!

 

I did quite enjoy the second episode of the second season!

 

I'm caught up!

 

I like the world crafting overall though I have a couple questions. It looked like Common and at least one other person had photographs in their rooms. Maybe they're just really good drawings? I'd have to go back and see if anything like that was in the room of someone ostensibly not in the know. Also these silos seem really close together, that's not great redundancy.  

 

I like the vibes of the first episode of the second season but it was perhaps a little too long for what it was. The chats between Bernard and Meadows / Sims and his wife have that weird "people IRL talk about things without saying the actual things aloud all the time" vibe that can feel forced in fiction. Their respective conversations both tease a history that really reminds me that I'm watching a TV show, but I appreciate that's just my personal stupidity.

 

I'd have assumed Bernard was more in on things than it seems like he is at the moment. I guess at this point the main reason that people get some kinda VR headset when they go outside is to convince them to clean while they're out there? But that seems like a lot of time and energy spent to convince people that the way things are outside is actually how they seem on camera, particularly when it seems like the last revolution in the OG silo and the one we saw the aftermath of in the "second" silo is because people thought they were being lied to... but they weren't (at least not in the way they guessed)... but it felt like they were? And clearly something is in the water.  

 

Anyway, fun show. I was initially stretching my ocular muscles to be able to roll my eyes at Tim Robbins' "new tape" speech then remind myself that people seem to like what Donald Trump says so fucking whatever, actually  Having recently played some Fallout and being in the middle of a Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered play, it's fun to try to guess which of those series' tropes are manifesting here.