It is very rare for a TV show to be a good adaptation of an existing material. It is even more rare to be somewhat innovative and surprising for those who already read the original material. But it's almost impossible to find a TV show that does all that while creating a world as we've never seen on television before, and with a grand finale from the kind we will remember and get shivers from for years. In the short list of the TV shows that have done all that, are Game of Thrones and Westworld. The list of those who failed is endless. Today, Silo enters that first short list, and it is the first one for Apple in this category.
Even for an original series, which in part it is (since the show created a lot of changes to the source material), Silo is one of the most brilliant that we've seen this decade so far, along with Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Last Of Us. And if I know two things about Apple's TV shows, is that they always have like 3 episodes in the middle of the first season that aren't exactly underwhelming (Foundation, Severance, See, For All Mankind), and that they always managed to surpass themselves on the next season (For All Mankind, The Morning Show). So as in Silo, episodes 4-6 were under-cooked, I fully expect the next season to be one of the most overwhelming television events of the decade.
We do not know why are we here. We do not know who built the Silo. We do not know why everything outside the Silo is as it is. We do not know when it will be safe to go outside. We only know that that day, is finally today.
Even for an original series, which in part it is (since the show created a lot of changes to the source material), Silo is one of the most brilliant that we've seen this decade so far, along with Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Last Of Us. And if I know two things about Apple's TV shows, is that they always have like 3 episodes in the middle of the first season that aren't exactly underwhelming (Foundation, Severance, See, For All Mankind), and that they always managed to surpass themselves on the next season (For All Mankind, The Morning Show). So as in Silo, episodes 4-6 were under-cooked, I fully expect the next season to be one of the most overwhelming television events of the decade.
We do not know why are we here. We do not know who built the Silo. We do not know why everything outside the Silo is as it is. We do not know when it will be safe to go outside. We only know that that day, is finally today.