Season Two of Silo
The trailer for season two of Silo, which starts on Apple TV+ on November 15. It doesn’t reveal much but I am excited to watch the new season! (No spoilers please from folks who have read the books.)
These solidly middlebrow shows like Silo, The Diplomat, and The Gilded Age are some of my favorites to watch these days because they are well-produced with quality actors but don’t tax the viewer (ok, me…they don’t tax me) as much as more serious fare like Shōgun, My Brilliant Friend, Severance, or Chernobyl (all of which I love to bits but sometimes feels like eating your vegetables, if you know what I mean). But a good media diet is a varied media diet and stuff like Silo is really hitting the spot for me right now.
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Read the book (Wool) and loved the story and more specifically the female protagonist. The TV show invented many rolls that don't exist in the book (like whatever character Common plays, the boyfriend, and the judicatory thing) and those things sort of derailed my viewing pleasure. However, I loved seeing someone else's idea of what the silo would look like. In my mind it was more claustrophobic than what they created for the show but I do like their take on it. I thought the apartment areas, the central staircase, and the farms were good. That scene early in season 1 with spraying water on a hot valve was so dumb and unnecessary. I did like the scenes dealing with the remnants from the construction process. That stuff is also not in the book but a genuinely good addition to the story. My jury is still out on how I feel as a whole about this show.
Neither Shogun nor Chernobyl felt like vegetables to me, but my watch queue does seem like an ever-growing, never-shrinking list of aspirational vegetables.
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