SILO: SEASON TWO
Starring: Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Common, Chinaza Uche, Remmie Milner, Harriet Walter, Shane McRae, Avi Nash, Tanya Moodie, and Iain Glen
Creator: Graham Yost
NICK
I’ve been eagerly anticipating Silo's return, and it does not disappoint. Although it spends much of the season building to an inevitable climax, it does so with purpose, enhancing everything that’s to come. New addition Steve Zahn (Solo) is great, while Shane McRae (Knox) and Remmie Milner (Shirley) thrive in larger roles. It's Tim Robbins, however, who really steps his game up this time around as the villainous Bernard Holland. Silo continues to remind me of Westworld: Season One (high praise) with its continued world-building and well-balanced plot threads, and I once again look forward to watching this story unravel further.
AMARÚ
Silo continues to use bureaucratic mystery as a catalyst for creating intrigue to build off of an intense first season. More focus is given to the ensemble, which develops the history of the silo community’s inner workings; however, Rebecca Ferguson’s (Juliette) loss of screen time leaves early episodes a bit lacking. There isn’t a bad performance in the bunch, but Ferguson is so head-and-shoulders above everyone else that you recognize how heavily the first season leaned on her to generate tension. This time around, while still impactful, I found myself watching a little less intently than I did before.
PAIGE
Even though Season Two of Silo expands its scope and world-building while giving its side characters a chance to shine, it still has the same sluggish pacing that plagued its predecessor. Unlike the first season, which offered a compelling mystery to work from, this season's plot simply drags on, giving us all set up and no payoff. The buildup needs more meat on its bones to satisfy my hunger for more. With two final seasons greenlit, I hope the show begins to wrap things up and provide us with the answers we are all yearning for.
QUENTIN
In its second season, Silo completely drops the ball by separating Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson), the series’ most interesting and best-acted character, from the main rebellion plotline, leaving the majority of the show to be driven by a collection of almost nameless and barely developed nobodies. Not only is Ferguson wasted in a mostly untethered subplot, so is new addition Steve Zahn (first season holdover Common isn’t given much to do either). On top of that, the pacing is downright atrocious — both in narrative and revelations — giving very little incentive to press on to the next episode, let alone two more already approved seasons...so I won't.
