Juliette needs help making a deep dive and Bernard has two problems to solve.

So far, season 2 of Apple+’s subterranean post-apocalyptic drama has been very much a ‘Tale of Two Silos’ with Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) and Solo (Steve Zahn) holding the attention far better than the amorphous band of grumblers back in Silo 18.

There’s not a great deal to add after the fourth episode, largely because the material is spread so thinly. Juliette says she’s going to do something and she does it, while Tim Robbins’s Bernard embarks on something of PhD level Machiavellian sneakiness, which, to be fair, does make Silo 18 marginally more interesting this week.  On the downside, it’s all very slow, and there just isn’t enough story to keep things moving forward, especially in the episode’s sluggish middle act.

Verdict: Silo is still a well-crafted watch, but it feels over extended and someone needed to really kick the tyres on the storytelling before committing to another ten episodes. 7/10 for Silo 17.  6/10 for Silo 18

Martin Jameson

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