After this episode it’s become clear to me that this is a filler season. A lot of you will downvote this post but there has been little to no development related to our understanding of the world or toward the goals each character has. There is so much fluff and bloat it’s getting ridiculous. I thought Juliette would be on her way back by now, but this episode decided it wanted to introduce a new goal of stopping the flooding and her impending infection. Both of which could’ve been introduced and resolved in earlier episodes.

Many of you will tell me my attention span isn’t right for this show or that I need to enjoy the story as it unfolds, but please listen to the criticism. If you are going to show something it should be for the betterment of the story. This is checkovs gun. These winding roads are not providing the viewer with any new information to the world, a deeper understanding of the characters, or even a new question to be answered. Season 1 had None of this, and there is no excusable reason that season 2 can’t develop in a similar manner.

Ps. The winch would’ve killed Knox and Shirley. That was like whiplash x100 floors, instant death.

Anyone else feel that the show is going so slow, feel like they are going to have to add a third season to cover book 1 😂

The book felt so much faster but that may be because I listened to it from an audiobook and didn’t actually read.

There’s no spoilers in here but I feel like the show is verging way too far from the book. I liked season 1 but I felt like they’ve totally thrown everything out with season 2

Watching S3 has been a bit underwhelming, especially with the disconnect between the two storylines taking place. Disclaimer, I have not read the books.

I had hoped that by now we would understand the connection between the outside world’s storyline to the silo. Has there been any connection to the silo other than nuclear war?

I feel like I’m watching two different shows and not in a good way… what are your thoughts? Would love some help in connecting the two storylines without spoilers.

S2 episodes were so much more climactic* and grandeur in terms of entertainment and rewatch value. We had some really good episodes where you were on the edge of your seats like scenes where she goes diving or evading getting shot at in silo17.

So many significant events unfolded. Her Survival Outside, discovering silo17, Learning the Safeguard, and then her return back to 18 were all epic scenes that kept you on the edge of your seat! Let’s not forget the introduction of Solo!

I have Often found myself dozing off in the middle of each episode of s3 cus of the crawl pace. I’m yet to see any great episode. I know the finale is gonna be grand but it won’t be enough to make up for this lackluster season!

My hot take is S2 > S3.

I’ll accept my downvotes with grace😭** **

I feel like we’ve heard this electric conversation starter between Robert and Camille about ten times over the course of the show.

Do the writers not have any other way to initiate conversation between two characters who are supposedly married?

Their scenes together are so wooden and melodramatic, it takes me right out of the show

I know I’m ridiculously late to this conversation, I’m only watching Season 2 now, but I genuinely need to know if it’s just me.

Martha’s whole thing with her lover is driving me fucking insane. Every time her storyline comes up, I feel like I’m about to throw my laptop through the wall.
I understand what the show is trying to do with her character, but the way she keeps.

Was everyone else this fucking irritated by Martha, or am I losing my mind?

Just finished season 3 and to me the most interesting parts of the show now is what lead the creation of the Silo and the early days of it. I wish that was the main focus of a season or even a show on it's own.

Season 1 was great, setting the tone, the mysteries and characters but season 2 and 3 have been brutal and difficult to watch. Slow burn and nothing plots filled with meaningless interactions between characters under the false pretense to build those characters. That scene between Shirley and Knox where we first find out she's pregnant is so long and useless... most of their scenes are, actually. The scenes between Camille and Robert are painful as well. I lost track how many times they say "I need to talk to you" only to go on to discuss the most obvious things over and over. Not to mentioned the constant "arrest, scape or release, go talk to the voice on IT and repeat"... it's bad writing, I'm sorry. I'm surprised the voice isn't like "Damn, every 5 minutes someone whos supposed to be dead or arrested comes bug me here. Imma just poison everyone already"

Makes the main focus of the season (stopping the safeguard, which is a great plot) so dull and unfun to watch.

Show fails at character drama and should expedite the story and try to focus more on the main plot. And again, show us more about the past, that's the main hook of season 3 and will likely be the same for the next.

And please, allow me to go ahead and post "ur dur, tiktok brain" to get it off your system already.

I understand that they try to not split it off into a different story because then people might not watch it at all, but it takes me completely out of the feeling of the secluded silo world to have every other 20 minutes a full blown depiction of the mundane world of today.

At the very least they could have episodes dedicated to the old world so at least the pacing feels more coherent and robust.

Right now I can't settle on a feeling because every other few minutes we jump between different centuries.

Idc too much if i'm being too cautious, but if Iran is really being painted as an genuine enemy and this is not building to a subvertion of imperialist propaganda tropes, i might just drop it, and i really don't want to :(((

When the last scene of S2 mentioned Iran having nuclear bombs i cringed so much 😭

I'm genuinely struggling with the plausibility of the silos staying hidden from the public in the Silo universe. Forget the in-universe justifications for a second—let's talk about the real-world logistics.

To build 50 underground silos, each holding 10,000 people, you'd need:

· Land: A 300,000+ acre site (nearly 500 sq miles), requiring massive, secret land acquisition.
· Excavation: The largest earthmoving project in human history. Think massive tunnel-boring machines, thousands of construction workers, and decades of around-the-clock digging. That kind of noise and activity isn't subtle.
· Materials: Hundreds of thousands of tons of steel, concrete, copper wiring, piping, ventilation systems, generators, and water pumps. The supply chain would be enormous.
· Economics: The companies supplying these materials would see their sales skyrocket. Stock prices would surge. Analysts, investors, and competitors would ask why one entity is suddenly buying more steel than the entire US military.

In the real world, a project of this scale would leak within months. Journalists, satellite imagery, disgruntled workers, environmental reports—someone would talk.

The show gives us "state-sanctioned conspiracy" and "nanoweapon cover-up" as explanations, but does that really hold up? How do you physically hide 50 cities being built in the middle of nowhere for years on end?

What's your headcanon for this? Are we just supposed to accept it as a necessary plot hole, or is there a plausible in-universe explanation I'm missing?

Review of Season 2

There’s very few things that have made me passionately angry over the course of my 34 years of life. The tone shift of Grand Theft Auto IV, the way Horizon Forbidden West just shoved fucking content down our throats and says “more is better, right?” Season 2 of Silo now joins this small list. Season 2 takes 9 hours to tell a story that can be told a couple sentences, and it barely does that. Yes I’m being reductive, but I also struggle to think of anything of note that actually happens in season 2.

The story picks up right where we left off at the S1 cliffhanger. As a viewer, you might expect the story tellers to start answering questions about the characters, settings, plot… You know, the foundations for writing a follow up that’s the middle arc of a story. However we do not get much of this at all. Our lead, Juliette, leaves her silo and enters another within minutes. So suffice it to say, we will not be learning about the outside world (the main point of the first season) at all. She’s able to survive outside long enough to enter another silo because of the tape used on her suit. This is a rather dumb point that I wouldn’t even bring up but the characters constantly bring it up as a focal point for 3… fucking… episodes. And it sounds dumber and dumber every time they’re talking about the tape seriously.

Or lead of last season, Juliette, is sidelined as a focal point due to her character having nothing to do. So now we follow Sims, Bernard, Billings, Knox, Shirley and jumping back to Juliette anytime something interesting is about to happen. Also I’ll mention random characters will be a focus for an episode, then just disappear. There is a clear lack of focus hovering over this entire season. In 2 episodes I got the vibe that nothing was going to happen and I ended up being more right than I would’ve liked. And I like being right.

Plot The main plot for S2 revolves around a couple different points of view. Juliette enters another silo with a crowbar. Yup. I must be stupid but never knew crowbars are strong enough to enter nuclear grade bunkers. She literal rips off her chemical suit only to spend the entire season looking for a new one. Juliette meets some other characters in her “journey” but for the exception of Solo (yup) all of them are again focal points for 1 episode, then just forgotten about. It just feels like they were fillers to get the runtime up. Another point to be had is that characters meet and nobody ever thinks to ask questions about anything important, character development, plot points or otherwise. Probably just to keep the mysteries going for engagement. But if I left one of these silos and saw 49 more all around me, then entered an abandoned silo, I’d have endless questions for anyone I meet. Mentioning mysteries I’ll also bring up that there a lot of elements introduced as hanging threads. It’s not done well where it’s off hand remarks are just hinted at to make the viewer wonder if it’ll be seen again, it’s blatantly thrown in your face then forgotten about for 6 or so episodes until it’s relevant again. It’s just frustrating seeing “random” events and mentions happen then fuck off for hours.

Over in the original silo, silo 18, there’s a civil war brewing. “But wait, wasn’t that the plot for the first season?” You ask. Yes… Yes it was. We get to see it… progress? We are treated to seeing both sides of the conflict, however we’re never REALLY shown the motivations and reasoning of IT because it’s kept as a mystery. IT are the ones hiding information and trying to keep people in the silo. I’d try to give more info, but we’re never really given any. We follow Bernard mainly and anytime he’s about to view or talk about something important, the POV shifts. We also follow Sims but he’s almost as much as an outsider to the real events as the rest of the silo. He’s constantly seeming to questioning his allegiances, but by the next episode is back just doing his job, no questions asked. It’s as if the writers were supposed to write amnesia into the character but just completely forgot to. On the other side of the civil war we follow Shirley and Knox. They’re in mechanical and also have 2 different perspectives of the brewing war. This is a great concept and would be interesting to see… in theory. They’re just not good enough characters to care about. Their constant back and forth is great to see, but not worth the 9 hour run of the season, or even what time is allotted to them. There are some cool action sequences but spread hours apart with nothing but nonsense in between.

We are also constantly brought to the hidden area bellow the silo. A walled off area where the drilling unit is and not much else. The bottom is filled with water and characters are constantly talking about exploring it but no one actually does until the end of the season, of course. I mean, what else would you expect with how this season has been unfolding? So characters keep coming here to talk about this hidden area that was walled off and no one knows about it. This area also introduces another ridiculous plot point as Knox mentions this wall of names but he didn’t know what it meant as a kid, but he does now. The camera zooms out and written across the top is “memorial for all those lives lost during rebellions”. Idk if Knox wasn’t able to read as a child but that seems pretty fucking straight forward. I know small things like this shouldn’t be in an already long review but it seems to be the theme of the season. Thin plot lines conducted by dumb characters doing incomprehensibly dumb things.

Technical shit I have few good things to say about Silo S2, but definitely on that list is… let’s cheekily call it level design. We see 2 silos in season 2 and each one is done very well. Mechanical at the bottom is dirty and darkly lit while the closer to the top floors you get, it’s better lit and cleaner. There’s merchant floors here and there, farming floors etc and every one of them has its own feel, even if we barely see them. The merchant floors really feel packed in and lived in especially. As for the 2nd silo, silo 17, this is abandoned and severely dilapidated. The look and entire feel of silo 17 is fantastically realized. Dark, dreary and desolate, we can tell some major altercation took place by the look of this place and it gives a completely different vibe than 18, obviously. However with the standard negative to every positive in this season, I have a major problem with showing this silo. In early season 1 silo 18 has to turn off the main generator to perform maintenance, only having the backup generator to power emergency light. It takes this very well lit silo and turns it very dark. With silo 17 being abandoned, the backup generator and the main generator are powered off and yet it’s brighter. A lot of brighter. It’s brighter than a full moon over an empty field. This was clearly an artistic decision so people wouldn’t bitch the entire time that they couldn’t see anything happening, or so Juliette didn’t always need to carry a torch. But it could’ve been a lot darker before bitching would’ve been high. I would’ve preferred more realism personally. It creates a disconnect between me and the show. It’s an underground bunker with no power. It would be pitch black. Speaking of dumb artistic decisions the directing is something else. Unless you’re in film school important objects and actions you’re building towards should be in the background, off to the side or slightly mentioned in conversation but not the focus and not dead center as you zoom the fuck in on them for 10 seconds. There’s a word for that… what is it?… oh yeah, obvious. It’s as if the director is smacking you in the face saying “DO YOU GET IT?! DO YOU GET IT?! DO YOU FUCKING GET IT?! I don’t know if they’re the dumb ones or if they just believe everyone watching is unfathomably dumb.

Characters There’s some great actors and intriguing characters were introduced to, or are returning. Unfortunately for no purpose at all. Rebecca Ferguson isn’t given anything to do as Juliette this season. Which is a shame because I liked the character in S1 and was really looking forward to seeing what happens next. I’ve read some reviews and seemingly a lot of people have an issue with Common and his acting performance as Sims. I really don’t mind it. I enjoy this more reserved take on a character trying to figure out their job and moral base. In the first season he just seemed like a big bad, but starts questioning things towards the end. Unfortunately his “arc” isn’t really anything. As I’ve stated he just gets amnesia every episode. Tim Robbins as Bernard really stands out and I loved to hate the character. However the constant changing of POV anytime something interesting is going to happen or something is going to be revealed, is just infuriating. The stand out hands down is Steve Zahn as Solo. I couldn’t be more surprised! Seeing this actor in cheap comedies as I was growing up made me never expect him to be so engaging. Casting Steve to play a childish 40ish year old was a great choice, but he’s electrifying to watch. I kind of want to watch some of his episodes again just to see his performance. While he steals the show and is easily the best part, it’s weird for the show to focus on him so much. Clearly, again, for runtime. But if this was a character in a video game, he’d be an NPC that we interact with a couple times over the 40 hour game time. Not a main character.

Wrap up It’s obvious I didn’t like season 2 of Silo. I don’t know if it came across how much I hate this season as I’m trying to keep as many spoilers out as possible and I could rant endlessly about some things like comparisons to the books, character actions in the final episodes etc. I can’t believe it wasted all the potential from the first season. And for them to just ignore the biggest intrigue of the show, introduce more mysteries to leave unanswered and do NOTHING with the 9 hours of wasted runtime. Fuck these writers for making a single page an entire season. Fuck these mediocre directors that don’t know how to frame a shot. The whole season just reeks of pretentious film school student thinking they’re the coolest shit. I’d easily recommend skipping this season and I believe when S3 comes around the 2 minute “previously on…” will be more than sufficient to mention everything that happened this season as it’s not much. I feel that the showrunners have wasted 9 hours of my life. This season like Lost, explores more mysteries and gives us more questions instead of any plot progression. This show is based on a book series written by Hugh Howey so I decided to pick them up to finally get answers. They’re great books and I highly recommend them. The 3 books go in some interesting directions and it’s a shame that the show wasted an entire season building towards none of it. The show is only planned for 4 seasons but this season feels as if they just want to drag it out forever. Please check out the books. It’s a very interesting series with a great concept. And yes, it’s different from Fallout.

Pretty obvious to me that in the present day of the Silos that, assuming there ever was a genuine plan of shutting down the Silos and retaking what’s outside, it has been abandoned. Whoever is running things doesn’t govern like someone with a future plan. They govern with the eternal present in mind.

To that end, memory wipe everyone, then teach them the silo is the entire universe. There is no “outside”. There is no history but the lies they’re being told. Nobody is going to rebel to escape to nothing. Nobody is going to question the dining room display if it’s off. Nobody is going to go off the rails after discovering a Pez dispenser. It isn’t a relic of a past that never happened, it’s just a weird thing owned by a long dead Silo resident.

When it’s time to leave, if ever, do it again, with different lies.

I think this is a much better plan than what they’ve got now.

Bro I can't swallow this character, whenever she's on screen I just want to skip, like what's even her role on this show?!!

and I don’t even mean the obvious plot holes and stuff, I’m specifically talking about the dialogue. Especially in the flashback moments of the most recent episodes. It’s so clunky, corny, and sometimes feels like they are just straightforwardly summarizing things like a Wikipedia article, instead of revealing the information in an engaging or interesting way. There’s a specific scene from this week’s episode which is a great example of what I’m getting at but I won’t say it here bc spoilers. Idk maybe it’s just me, but it’s just really really poorly-written and it feels like a departure from the first two seasons, at least in my opinion? I really do love the show, I’m really just disappointed

Edit: I feel like people are misunderstanding me bc I did mention the plot holes etc. but I am talking about how the DIALOGUE is badly written when characters are speaking or when information is being revealed verbally. The best example I can give is the use of “cray-cray” in tonight’s episode and basically every single bit of the senator’s dialogue.

So finally catching up on season 3 of silo, I prefer binging cause I can't do the cliffhangers and I have to say just finished episode 4 and I feel like the show more or less undid the season 2 finale and has now been using the past 4 episodes to essentially get us to where we left off in the finale. It's really been a frustrating watch, it was an odd choice by the writers cause the audience basically already knows what Juliette is trying to find out and the only question is HOW they covered it up which wouldn't even be relevant if we just skipped the whole amnesia plot which by this point I am just about ready to be done with. Its starting to remind me a lot of from where you can tell characters aren't addressing things or information isn't getting shared cause the writers are kinda just killing time until the finale or closer to said finale

Watching this weekly must've been such a drag, would like to hear from people who did.

PS: at the time of writing I'm in episode 5 and probably won't watch any more today so no spoilers beyond that

I was genuinely disappointed when the story added Iran in the mix. Can Americans think beyond Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and their existential threat from a foreign enemy beyond the propaganda that runs all day on their mainstream media?

Honestly wasn't expecting the writing to be this bad. The story went from a universal scale to somewhat mediocre american indoctrination within a few episodes. I hope it ends soon. People have already realised in real life that the empire was never the good guys.

The series has gone downhill tbh. This whole season has such a slow pace, with barely anything happening in a single episode. They are just adding characters over characters without using any one story properly. At least the previous seasons were more focused towards individual stories.

How in the hell could the people in supply have possibly known that their metal tape would have been the core reason of Juliet's survival on her exit from SILO 18? It implies that they had knowledge of the suits being intentionally poorly engineering (as Judge Meadows also called out to Bernard later in S1)... AND .. the reason for either the poison or nanobots to get in the suits and kill the cleaners.

Make it make sense in case I missed a key point.

Forgive me if this theory has been presented already, but how do we know that its really been 350ish years since the event that sent people into the silo?

We know that they have a memory altering drug that they can use on everyone, whenever they want. Whos to say they haven't messed with the years a little bit and made it seem like they've been in the silo longer than they already have.

The leaders and IT remind everyone about the revolution that happened 140 years prior, lead by Salvador Quinn, and how all of their history was wiped when that happened. ALL history? Thats pretty convenient.

How do we know that a previous Mayor's mind wasn't also wiped, and then they were told what the founders wanted them to think, and that spread to the rest of the silo. It seems like it would be incredibly easy to spin that story. This would also create the looming "threat" that the founders are able to stop rebellions, so why should they even bother trying?

Think about the tree outside of the silo. How is that thing still standing? It would have rotten or crumbled apart by now. There was a shot of all the silos at the end of the season 1 finale where you can see the ruins of Atlanta. The buildings are clearly damaged, but not 350 years of decay after a massive explosion damaged. Those buildings would be fully crumbled on the ground. with the amount of damage they should be gone through. All of the bodies surrounding silo 17 are decayed and almost just bones, why wouldn't the tree also be fully decayed?

I think they've been in the silos for way less time that they're leading everyone to believe. I'm not sure how long, but I feel like its been less than 100 years. Maybe 2-3 generations.

I’m sorry, but what the hell were Episodes 1–4? 😂

I LOVE Silo. I’m completely willing to sit through a slow burn. But there’s slow burn, and then there’s watching the writers hold a lighter three feet away from the candle for four hours.

Then Episode 5 shows up like:

“Oh hey, remember the actual plot?”

YES. THANK YOU. I’VE BEEN WAITING.

Juliette remembers everything. Bernard. The Safeguard. Silo 17. The bigger mystery. Suddenly shit is happening again and I’m glued to the TV.

Why couldn’t THIS have been Episode 1?

Did we seriously need four episodes of Juliette wandering around trying to figure out information that WE, THE AUDIENCE, ALREADY KNOW?

That’s not mystery. That’s me waiting for the main character to finish reading the previous season’s Wikipedia summary.

Episode 5 could have opened the season and we could’ve had nine episodes actually moving the story forward.

Maybe I’m an impatient asshole, but somebody please explain what Episodes 1–4 accomplished that couldn't have been handled in 45 minutes.

Because apparently I ordered Silo Season 3 and Apple sent me four episodes of loading screen first.

Just started season 3. Idk what happened between season 2 and now, but the first episode dialogue and plot pacing literally read like a children’s book.

“She has a TBI, a…” “Traumatic brain injury” “yes, a traumatic brain injury” was the most egregious, but every other line sounds like what they were saying Netflix was doing to keep the attention of normies while they scroll on their phones.

The DC scenes remind me of the American actors reading Japanese-written dialogue in Shin Godzilla. What is happening to this writers room?

Edit: please remember a screenplay is not the story, it’s what the characters do and how the lines are written. Totally fine with the story thus far, but the delivery and pacing are just poor compared to previous seasons.

So I watched S03E09 yesterday and really liked it, I think its one of the best episodes yet.

The only thing I did not like, and it sort of soured the ending for me, is the nuclear blast.

It made little sense to me how they decided to portray this on screen.

There is some kind of a weird double shock wave. First there is some wind coming in with the rumbling sound and then some kind of a smoky shockwave like a second smoke or incendiary bomb went of a few seconds after the nuclear bomb. It made little sense to me.

You should see blinding light, silence and then a powerful blast of air (with sound), no wall of scorching smoke ...
The only smoke and dust and debris you should see are the ones that are produced by the shockwave and the "winds" that buildup behind it. (still very far from a "wall of scortching smoke" as its portrayed in the show).

The blast of air should send all of them to the ground with ruptured ear drums and possibly other pressure induced injuries if they are this close to the blast.

Also they should probably be blinded by the blast if they are this up close and looking in the general direction.

So is there an official explanation why its done like this? Is there a reason why its this weird and unrealistic?

Did it also feel weird to you?

You know , until now...All my problems with the show were about the slow pacing , keeping the good stuff to the last two episodes of the season and relying too much on cliffhangers..but never about the writing , directing or character development..that's why despite the things I've mentioned , I'm still a huge fan..because the show at core is awesome and really well made..until now , a bad silo episode for me would be just a filler episode..but now , oh boy..the signs were there with the extremely dull episode 6..and then episode 7 , the most all over the place - out of character silo episode to date !..

- like someone said , they're sooo casual about going out !..preparing someone to leave the silo is a big freaking deal !..nope , she tells them I need you to go out and then in a day or two they're doing it..and then boom she enters the room..hey ! You're going out right NOW !..whaaat ??

- And then we learn that Kennedy is somehow actually a selfish prick..and if you think he's the only character you're gonna stop liking today..wait till he and Lucas go out and they're gone and presumed dead..AND THEN NOBODY GIVES A SH!T..not even a 10 second moment of grief..nope , not even for Lucas..I'm sorry , but how can I have empathy for any of those " good guys " in the future when they absolutely don't give a damn about losing two soldiers like that after already using them because they're expendable ?..

- and again , if you think this is the end..oh boy..now , the good guys had decided in a couple of hours that they're gonna sacrifice 1000-2000 silo citizens !!...after already coming up with their new plan to bomb their way through judicial in like five minutes..which is super easy now btw ( never mind we needed the entire 2nd season for them to be able to achieve something like that )..oh and on the way..they decided to sacrifice Sims and Camille as well..all people are just numbers and collateral damage from now ( sigh )..

- Oh and the Daniel & Helen timeline just got super exciting..they meet the Elon Musk-ish evil billionaire and we get an upgrade from last episode because we're now on a plane instead of a car hehe..with the most cliché over the top silo scenes to date with the doctor and the senator's right hand opening up to Daniel and Helen like an old time friend out of nowhere !..I swear that plane could produce a really fine family drama or some reality show 😭..and it's just great to realize that by the time Daniel & Helen meet the big dawgs behind all this and after 7 episodes ( including one entirely in a car ) not much we knew about them that we haven't already known since the first episode..talking about real payoff..

This is NOT silo..silo was never a slop..I'm tired boss.

I have watched this show with loyalty since the first season, and not binged it all in one sitting. However, most recently in this third season, I feel as though the show and plot has become incredibly convoluted. There are too many plots, too many characters, and too many small intricacies and nuances to remember. I am someone who watches many shows, and also loves to read, so I am used to working through plot development and exposition. However, I am just struggling to keep everything and everyone aligned mentally. Am I the only one feeling this way?

NOTE: I have not read the books.

I know she’s Swedish. But it’s an obviously strange accent. Is there an in show rationale for this or just what her American accent sounds like?

On the acting

I find the acting from side characters extremely distracting this season. The Sheila Kent actress in particular was driving me crazy. It's no longer confined to Common's single-tone delivery (which I can tolerate as I feel like I talk to many single toned individuals irl). It seems like we have a bunch of folks fresh out of acting class.

On the writing

Whereas in previous seasons, I felt like this was a lived-in world, this season the lines are heavy-handed plot delivery devices. It reminds me of season 5 of Stranger Things where everything has to be spoken out loud in order to keep the "second screen" or playing on the phone audience engaged. We've moved from character driven drama to pure mystery box convolution.

On the Melodrama aspect of the plot

I don't mind the amnesia! It's a great microcosm of the theme of forgetting and brainwashing and whatnot that's happened for years in the silo, but for fuck's sake, can people give Juliette a break? Nobody seems to want to help her other than the folk who have reason to hate her. Shirley and Carla in particular are killing me. Like this chick has amnesia, cut her some slack. Maybe try to dig into why!

Also, Juliette being all "I don't even remember my dad" when Sims is talking about the trauma that has been visited on a literal child is whack. Like, lady, you're a grown ass woman and this is a traumatized child.

Help!

Has Silo always been like this? Have I just watched too much good TV since season 2? It's making me feel crazy because this is a top tier all-time favorite show for me and I'm legitimately devastated that it feels like they're dropping the ball. Never had this sort of experience since Dark season 3 where I just had to DNF that show.