TV review Dystopian sci-fi comes back bigger and better
The Guardian|November 16, 2024
As the nights draw in, there are few reasons to feel optimistic that 2025 will be filled with glorious testimonies to the innate goodness of humankind.
Leila Latif
TV review Dystopian sci-fi comes back bigger and better

But the return of Silo reminds us that things could be a lot worse.

Season one of the sci-fi—based on Hugh Howey's dystopian novels—introduced us to the last 10,000 people on Earth, living in an underground silo centuries after an apocalyptic event had left the surface uninhabitable. Anyone who left—or was exiled—died within a few minutes, with their demise broadcast to the entire population.

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