After a somewhat ho-hum season 2 and a slow start to season 3, fans began to wonder whether Silo would turn things around. Well, it did, and then some. As of this week’s season 3 finale, Silo has now racked up the highest-scored episodes in its history, with the final episode far and away the winner.
As it stands, Silo season 3 episode 10, Troy, has a 9.6/10 on IMDB. That beats the previous week’s episode, Farewell, which stands at a 9.3/10, which took the record when it aired. There are only three 9+ rated episodes in Silo history, and those are two of them. The last one is the season 1 finale, Outside.
Silo does not have the prestige buzz that other Apple TV sci-fi shows like Severance and Pluribus do, nor the Emmy nominations, but it has become a powerhouse among fans, and has an advantage over those shows. Namely, it’s only been 1.5 years between seasons while the others are 2.5-3 (or at least that’s likely in Pluribus’ case). Given that seasons 3 and 4 of Silo were filmed back to back, we are now less than a year until season 4, the final season, airs. And it will return when the show is the best it’s ever been.
In the finale (spoilers follow), the show finally merged the past and present day timelines, which previously followed Daniel and Helen seemingly centuries before the main storyline starring Juliette. Through the sci-fi magic of cryo freezing, the Silo 1 crew has lived for hundreds of years, waking up in shifts to manage the Silos, which in the opening scene, has Daniel, now brainwashed into an almost entirely different person, Troy, executes all of Silo 17, revealing that they are manually killing people with poison who leave.
The episode ends with the entirety of the Silo team, even Camille, banding together to trick Silo 1 with a plan that allows them to close the poison gas pipes. Now, the plan is to figure out how to invade Silo 1 itself. Given that season 4 is already filmed, we have been shown a trailer for bits and pieces of next season. I have not watched it, given that I’d rather just go into it without any knowledge at all, though that also involves dodging book spoilers for the next year or so. Thankfully, unlike other series, book-readers do not seem prone to purposefully spoiling things for others on social media.
Silo has become a sleeper hit on Apple, allowed to grow and now thrive with Apple’s generous renewal policy. Any underperformance on another service may have had the show cancelled after a season or two. Thankfully, that did not happen here, which has led us to its best episode to date.
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