An Apple TV sci-fi series returns with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes as it dominates streaming.
After launching the platform with For All Mankind in 2019, Apple TV gradually went on to become the undisputed streaming destination for science-fiction shows. Along with For All Mankind, which has been renewed for a sixth and final season, the service also features Severance, Silo, Dark Matter, Foundation, Pluribus, Murderbot, Invasion, and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Pluribus is Apple TV’s most-watched show of all time, and the record was previously held by Severance.
Apple TV’s Silo has now returned for season 3 and is both a critical and streaming hit. The dystopian series based on Hugh Howey’s novels debuted with a 100% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes, and the score has remained perfect with 17 reviews now added to the aggregation site. This surpasses seasons 1 and 2, which respectively have critics’ scores of 88% and 92%.
Now, only a day after the season 3 premiere, Silo is number one on Apple TV’s global and U.S. streaming charts. It is in first place for 97 different countries, including Australia, Brazil, Colombia, France, India, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and Ukraine. The shows behind it in the worldwide top 10 are Cape Fear, Sugar, Widow’s Bay, Your Friends & Neighbors, Star City, Ted Lasso, Severance, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, and Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed.
Silo is set in a future where Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) and thousands of other individuals live underground in a 144-level silo. Season 3 sees Juliette back in Silo 18, where she is now the mayor, but she has no memory of what happened before her return. In addition to this present-day story, the series explores a past timeline that is beginning to reveal why the silos were created, what happened to the outside world, and who is actually in power.
In ScreenRant‘s Silo season 3 review, Felipe Rangel gave it eight out of 10 stars, praising how the series “goes for something completely fresh three seasons into its run, and it pays off.” Seasons 1 and 2 take place in the present, which makes the new focus on U.S. Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman), investigative journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick), and Senator Thurman (Laura Innes) new territory for the show.
This is a different approach from Howey’s Silo books, as the second installment, Shift, is set entirely in the past, until it catches up with the present-day timeline at the very end in order to set up the third and final book. Rather than spend almost an entire season without Juliette and following all-new characters, the adaptation has chosen to alternate between the two timelines. This has already led to some other significant changes from the source material, including the whole storyline of Juliette’s memories being suppressed, which does not happen in the novels.
Silo was simultaneously renewed for seasons 3 and 4, the latter of which will be the end of the series. The two seasons were filmed back-to-back as they adapt the events of Shift and the third book, Dust. Graham Yost serves as the showrunner, with a cast that also includes Harriet Walter as Martha Walker, Avi Nash as Lukas Kyle, Common as Robert Sims, Alexandria Riley as Camille Sims, Chinaza Uche as Paul Billings, Shane McRae as Knox, Remmie Milner as Shirley, Rick Gomez as Patrick Kennedy, and Steve Zahn as Solo.
Silo season 3 releases new episodes on Fridays on Apple TV.
- Release Date
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May 5, 2023
- Network
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Apple TV
- Showrunner
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Graham Yost
- Directors
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Morten Tyldum, David Semel, Michael Dinner, Aric Avelino
- Writers
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Graham Yost, Hugh Howey, Jeffery Wang, Lekethia Dalcoe
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Rebecca Ferguson
Juliette Nichols
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