Review | Silo, Apple TV+ post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama starring Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins, puts Earth’s survivors in a hole in the ground
- Rebecca Ferguson stars as the sheriff of the 10,000 surviving humans on Earth, who all live underground, in Apple TV+’s tense lo-tech sci-fi series Silo
- Meanwhile, in K-drama series Race on Disney+, Lee Yeon-hee plays PR consultant Park Yoon-jo, who encounters hostility when she takes a new job
As governments everywhere shamelessly try to make global eco-catastrophe the new normal, Apple TV+ delivers a tense, lo-tech sci-fi drama that puts the future “us” in a deep, dark, depressing hole.
Silo stars Rebecca Ferguson as Juliette Nichols, sheriff of the 10,000-plus remaining humans on Earth – or inside it, anyway – a reluctant badge wearer chosen by departed lawman Holston Becker (David Oyelowo).
He can now be seen dead, with his wife, through the one window the silo’s inhabitants are allowed onto the world, their bodies a prostrate warning to anyone else wanting to “go outside” into the apparently poisonous atmosphere.
Naturally, all is illusion. Who is making the rules? Why, really, is the planet’s surface out of bounds? Who built the silo and put these people underground, where humans have been for 140 years?
Nichols is likely to nix this mass imprisonment, but with little help from slippery mayor Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins), who is keen on the status quo and keener to enforce the law on relics – artefacts such as clunky hard drives, video cameras and even a baffling Pez sweet dispenser with deep symbolic significance.
