After a very very slow start from the first two episodes, Silo Season 2 starts to take us down different paths, episode 3 finally brings everything together in a way that makes the story flow a lot better and gives us a good look at what's going on in Silo 17 and Silo 18 at the same time but now putting more focus on Silo 18, I have to say that this was a much better episode than I expected with more character development and interaction between them, and learning more about Solo, the man the myth inside the Vault of Silo 17, played by Steve Zahn, who turns out to be quite an interesting character with his own set of problems and fears.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28100076/
- Platform: AppleTV+
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We see how the "Juliette Lives" message is causing problems in Silo 18 and the strong arm of the forces are going after Teddy, one of Juliette's old coworkers from mechanical, which sets up the tone for what is coming next as we see how Bernard and Judge Meadows try to deal with the situation from different angles, Bernard wants to follow protocol and make mechanical look like the bad guys while Meadows thinks this will only cause more problems and suggests blaming it on someone from the upper levels, which shows us that both of them have their own agenda and take different approaches to the same problem but want to avoid a full revolution.
Meanwhile we get to see Juliette trying to convince Solo to help her get back to her Silo, which proves to be harder than expected considering that Solo has been alone for so long he has now developed serious trust issues and fears, preventing him from even leaving his vault, but that doesn’t stop Juliette from trying to get home because she knows that her survival could cause problems in Silo 18 after what she have seen happen on 17, she now wants to stop it from happening, her been out is now her worst fear, and she’s not wrong about that because people are starting to question everything they know about the outside world.
We start to watch how the episode does a really nice job of balancing the serious political drama that’s currently happening in Silo 18 with Bernard, Meadows and the rest of the people in charge trying to keep control, and then we have the emotional moments with Solo and Juliette in Silo 17, it’s like watching two completely different shows that just happen to work perfectly together to create a more complex story that keeps you awake watching trying not to loose the thread from start to finish of the episode, this was a great episode.
It's clear that Judge Meadows wants to leave the Silo because she understands what's really going on in their underground world, she was part of IT before becoming a judge and worked closely with Bernard as his shadow so she knows all the secrets about the Silos and the outside world and this knowledge has been eating away at her for years but to tame this feeling down she turned to drinking to cope with it all, in her apartment she keeps what they call red relics, items from before the last rebellion that might give people dangerous ideas about the outside world, like a Frisbee, a kite and even a projector she uses to watch videos of people living normal lives outside, on beaches and riding horses, these items and videos show us how much this feeling of living a different live outside is eating her up from the inside, watching these videos alone in her room and crying tells us everything we need to know about how she feels about their current situation, its Juliette's survival that has given her hope and courage to finally try and leave and even make a deal with Bernard in return for helping him control the rebellion so she can get out.
Regarding Solo’s role in Silo 17, it seems quite different from Bernard’s position, but both were in IT, Solo seems to have been more of a keeper of secrets rather than a leader makes you think was he like Meadows who then saw the opportunity to jump ship from IT into Judicial?, he was told to protect the vault and never let anyone inside, which makes him sound more like a guardian than a decision maker, the fact that there are newer dead bodies outside his vault indicates that people have tried to get in over the years, probably sent by other Silos to kill any survivors after the mass exodus from Silo 17, this explains why he’s so paranoid and defensive when he first meets Juliette, it looks like he can’t tell what’s real and what’s not, and we see as he admits that he gave Juliette food just to prove to himself that she was actually there and not his imagination, his story about Ron Tucker and how everyone in his Silo left after seeing him survive outside shows us that he has actually seen what can happen when people learn the truth about their world, everything is one single crazy crazy reality.
The episode comes to a close with several intense moments happening at once across both Silos, in Silo 18 we see how the situation with Teddy's arrest leads to a violent confrontation between the rebels and security forces where Cooper dies trying to stop someone who threw a firebomb during the protest, this death brings both Knox and Shirley together as they realize they both want the same thing. Judge Meadows watches old videos of people playing on beaches and riding horses and she cries because she wants to leave so badly, but the most impactful moment is in Silo 17 where we see Solo finally come out of his vault after so many years alone to stop Juliette from going into the flooded area alone, its one scene after another that start to bombard your mind blowing the roof top after each other. Again Solo asks Juliette if she's real and she confirms it, this is exactly what happens after so much time in isolation, you don't even trust your own mind for someone who's been alone for so long he's started to doubt what's real and what's not, the scene ends with both of them sitting together while Solo tries to calm down after taking those first steps out of his vault, showing how small steps can turn into a lot of progress when dealing with trauma and isolation.
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