Silo (TV Series) Holston's Pick (2023) User Reviews

Well picked

[bartolomeudebensafrim · 9/10 · 21 May 2023]

In this episode the show really takes off. The screen is once again the heart of the show and i just hope that the script writers are fully aware of this and proceed with this in mind.

Rebecca Ferguson is an absolute magnet - what an actress. She immediatly makes you feel empathic and interested about her fate. And the other characters start to come out aswell.

Mysteries continue to mount and very few things are revealed but all in the right dose. I'm hooked.

Once again, the only issue is with the cleanliness of everything. Not even the bottom levels are dirty and messy. With or without totalitarian powers in command, human beings are messy.

Judicial is looking like an incredibly menacing force.

Interesting enough, even if a bit cliched

[cariost · 7/10 · 8 May 2023]

Rebecca Ferguson plays her character very intense, keeping one's attention to the story, and smoothing over the otherwise rather standard SF fare.

Visuals are good, the setting is not completely absurd, and I am now invested enough to want to know how this plays out.

However, i do not understand why simple common sense is wantonly abandoned. No way would Fergusson's engineer character climb down a 100 feet rope without any aid, a makeshift stepladder, securing ropes, anything! How does she think she's ever going to climb up again, by the strength of her hands ? Also, there is no way she loses her grip, falls 15 feet, and catches herself again, as shown for drama. This absurdity just kills my immersion.

Why would she fix the rope in the most inconvenient place above the middle of the lake, when i can see in the few seconds we are shown the scenery, that she could affix it above a structure she could actually stand upon once she's down.

None of that is important for the story, but it makes her character unbelievable, nobody could be that stupid, and breaks the empathic bond we want to have with her.

The scriptwriters should have to write "I will not make my characters act like the don't think 10 seconds ahead, and that are also physically impossible" 1000 times while clinging to a rope.

Slow burn with an interesting ending

[aboalhyjaa · 7/10 · 9 May 2023]

This episode continues the story set up that we saw in the first episode, but it was slower. The storytelling is still as good as the first episode.

This episode gives us more character development for the main hero, but it needed more action. However, the episode's ending is good and maybe a plot twists to come?

I really do hope the next episodes well be better, i didnt read the book and i have no idea of the events to come but readers say its worth it so give it a shot!

To sum up, the second episode is a good episode to continue the story, but it left me wanting more action and faster events.

Episode 2

[bobcobb301 · 6/10 · 10 May 2023]

The first episode of the show had me hooked in. It wasn't perfect, it was a little bit long, but this was a fun sci-fi/apocalypse program.

This episode just seemed to drag on though. Deviating so far from the characters that were at the forefront of the first episode was a little bit weird too. I get that this is going to be an ensemble and more people are going to leave the Silo so it is going to shift allegiances and points of view, but I just don't like how this was mapped out.

I hope the show will get better than this because I feel like it has all the potential in the world, but this wasn't good enough.

more interesting wordbuilding but not without flaws

[nerrdrage · 7/10 · 20 January 2024]

Silo is starting to remind me of the shows the SyFy Channel used to have, just with a higher budget. It's good but not great. Some things stand out, others just don't click.

There seem to be a lot of British actors in this who can't quite nail an American accident (including the lead character) and end up sounding quasi-Irish or something. If it were just one actor, it would be okay but there seems to be one in every scene and it's distracting.

Just let them use their real accents. We don't know who they are, where they come from, are they American, etc. They could be astronauts on an alien world for all we know.

The journey to see the original drill used to dig the silo was fun, great visuals. I wonder if it will be put into action at some point, digging further?

Core plot point makes no sense

[fookhar · 3/10 · 12 May 2023]

So, the people going outside, who see a lush, green landscape, know that the people inside, watching the screens, don't actually see this, no matter how clean the cameras are, so why would the outside people try to clean the cameras to make the inside people "see"? It makes absolutely no sense and it's one of the core plot points of the story.

And the characters clearly have a suspicion that something is not right, that they're being lied to, but they still trust that there's no foul play involved when being let outside? It makes no sense.

This show is turning out to be just another terrible mystery-for-the-sake-of-mystery show with no actual coherent twists and turns.

Silo.

[bombersflyup · 4/10 · 16 December 2023]

In Holston's Pick, Juliette, an engineer, pieces together what might have led to a co-worker's mysterious death.

I guess the characters can continue to be in it if they're going to keep going back in the past. They're clearly leaving out important things that could easily be in the episode though and replacing it with filler, to drag out the material for future episodes, like the discussion that would've been had between Holston and Juliette before he goes outside, which is kind of annoying. So I found it less interesting than the first episode, despite having Rebecca Ferguson in it and it remains a bit PC, but it's okay.