Episode 7 of Silo Season 2 was everything I expected, with Solo demanding almost having Juliette trapped to turn on the water pump eight floors under water, and this was exactly what we needed at this point in the story, an episode full of tension that kept those high dopamine levels from start to finish, the kind of episode that makes you remember why this series was so good on first season and in my opinion it deserves a solid 8/10. On this episode we have action from all fronts, from Bernard and Sims now going at each other on a power hunger war but Bernard seem to have the upper hand for now, he always think he is one step ahead of everyone specially now that Lukas is making progress with Quinn secret code, I'm still not to clear on what this mean but I guess Quinn either knew why and who created the Silo or either was on the same ball park of Meadows trying to go out and be free, not sure.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28100089/
- Platform: AppleTV+
We know there is a Vault on Silo 17 that we haven't seen but this time we shown the vault on Silo 18, a secret room with a sci fi aesthetic compared to the rest of the silo, which includes digital tablets with what seems some sort of AI, all kind of preserved books, art pieces that paint a picture of humanity's past, before Bernard drops the bomb that the silo is over 350 years old on Lukas, but he literally knows nothing before that reason that makes Salvador Quinn's mysterious code all the more intriguing. Down in Mechanical they're cooking up something big that will shake things up in the Silo where they will stretch their arms letting everyone else on the Silo why they are Mechanical, the best engineers are down there and are brilliant minds kept in the dark.
The best part of episode 7 is how they show us multiple story lines without losing a grip on any of them or felt that it was just too short and rush, there is the political chess game happening in Silo 18 where Mechanical demonstrates that they’re not just a group of grease monkeys by launching their brilliant propaganda attack on a fkn rocket that throws out hundreds of notes with messages trying to expose IT’s lies and then cutting the power to reveal that IT somehow manages to keep their lights on while everyone else is in darkness, it’s a brilliant move that has Bernard scrambling to maintain control and he did because of his slick skills to manipulates others where he explain this by saying Mechanical can control each floor and left only IT online to put everyone against him.
This confrontation between Mechanical and IT shows the psychological tension of Bernard trying to hold onto power, questioning Carla about the gunpowder and confronting Judge Sims about his loyalty and on the other hand we have the physical tension of Juliette's underwater mission in Silo 17, both story lines keep you wondering what is going to happen next but in completely different ways.
As a secondary level there is whats going on down at Mechanical where they know there is a rat who got their food poison and now there are rumors of a plan to kill Knox and Shirley, finally they figure out things and find out it was a women May, the cafeteria worker that was forced into poisoning food by Judicial, in a different way than their revenge would have been, choosing to show compassion with her and promise to protect her mother who is upstairs and keep her in the fold even after she betrayed them, moments like that help flesh out the conflict and there is no question who actually has the moral high ground here, may be I'm bias and got no idea what is to be under this kind of situation but I bet if IT decides to talk with Mechanical they would listen but there is still the question if humans are on Silo's because they have to due to outside conditions or because someone wants to keep them on Silos for some other specific reason, probably the second is where someone like Bernard comes in to keep the grip of power.
Something I can't ignore is the underwater scenes in Silo 17, the are nothing short of impressive, yes there might be a lot of CGI with AI into it but still, their ability to recreate the claustrophobic feel of being surrounded by dark water and trying to fix things levels below was basically making me constantly think how Juliette was not going to make it out, the sound in particular is noteworthy during these scenes, the constant dripping of water and the echo of metal all contribute to an air of huge tension, probably my favorite scene of this episode.
Even though the end of the episode is a big cliff hanger, with three more episodes to go its probably perfect their big reveal about Silo 17 not been just Juliette and Solo, rather than going for a cheap shock moment, they built it up through Juliette's dive sequence, starting with the cut rope, then the loss of oxygen, then finding blood and that axe on the floor, you can't help but wonder if Solo has been hiding something much, much darker about Silo 17 all this time, either he has a double personality situation that he might because all the time he was locked up, there are others in there with him that he didn't know about or he did and they were just trying to trick Juliette into helping him, so what is the real reason the episode ends with blood in the floor and Solo missing in action?.
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