There are some common elements at a very high level but, really, they are very different. I did like Logan's Run back in the day but I don't think it has aged that well (in terms of plot complexity). You should watch Silo.
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Apple TV+ Shares 'Silo' Recap Video Ahead of Season 2 Starting Friday
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I think that was meant to be a bit of dry humor on Juliette's part. Maybe she was implying that she didn't want to get wrapped up in the fulltime job of sheriff before she had a chance to repair the generator while she was still a fulltime engineer.
Excited for season 2. But I really hate the 1 episode per week release schedule. Guess I'll have to wait until late December to restart my free 3 month trial. 😂
just to clarify a few things from the article body:
- the silo inhabitants are not the last 10,000 people on earth and no one is ever led to believe they are
- the loved one mentioned was not murdered, but some did suspect he was
- The book series is known collectively as "Silo", not Wool. Wool was the first of the 3 novels in the series (the others are Shift and Dust).
Agree! I hated Lost for that reason. It was clear that they were just making stuff up as they went along so I gave up in season 2.
When I started game of thrones, I was happy it was based on a book series… but we all know what happened there. They ran out of source material and 👎
That's good to know, I hadn't seen much about it. I do like For All Mankind for sure. May give this a try.
These series are so slow. I usually watch around three episodes, then read Wiki for the rest of the plot. It actually saves a lot of time.
Even with a legit subscription, it's really a pain in the ass to have this weekly release schedule. I'd believed that the whole point of streaming was to allow for an easy viewing "on-demand"
True. And I know we'll never see it, but I would love to know which services made money. I would also like to know how much they have invested into TV+ already.
After all the reviews I broke down and watched it and ended up fast forwarding until the end after 3-4 episodes. The most interesting character by quite a bit died int he first episode and the main for the rest I found completely boring. Dont know why but show did not click for me at all.
I agree, not everything on Apple TV+ is my type of show and I may turn a show off after an episode or two, but everything I’ve watched on Apple TV+ is a very well made show for the type of person it’s written for. You really can’t go wrong.
Sometimes you just need to accept that Superman can catch a person falling from an airplane so that you can enjoy the rest of the story.
Exactly.
In the old days... shows were on a schedule because there were literally only so many hours per day to broadcast content. Every show had their particular timeslot on the schedule.
But streaming changed that. You could watch anything anytime on-demand. No schedules! I think Netflix started this... releasing all episodes at once which created "bingeable" content. And people liked it.
So yes... it does seem kinda silly that modern on-demand streaming services are choosing to release their shows weekly as if they are still mimicking an old-school over-the-air schedule.
Mainly it's so people can't subscribe for just one month... watch all their shows... then cancel.
So I can see why they are doing it from a business standpoint.
On a positive note... if you and some friends are watching the same show... you all now have a week for everyone to watch it so you can talk about each episode. Think water-cooler shows.
We kinda lost that when shows were released all-at-once where someone could binge the entire season in one weekend... but you couldn't talk about it because someone else is inevitably behind.
While I'm upset that Apple is releasing episodes of Silo once a week... I know why they are doing it.
No worries though... I still have many other shows to watch. I never watched Ozark season 4 so I can catch up on episodes of that in-between episodes of Silo.
There are so many shows to watch... new and old.
Exactly.
In the old days... shows were on a schedule because there were literally only so many hours per day to broadcast content. Every show had their particular timeslot on the schedule.
But streaming changed that. You could watch anything anytime on-demand. No schedules! I think Netflix started this... releasing all episodes at once which created "bingeable" content. And people liked it.
So yes... it does seem kinda silly that modern on-demand streaming services are choosing to release their shows weekly as if they are still mimicking an old-school over-the-air schedule.
Mainly it's so people can't subscribe for just one month... watch all their shows... then cancel.
So I can see why they are doing it from a business standpoint.
On a positive note... if you and some friends are watching the same show... you all now have a week for everyone to watch it so you can talk about each episode. Think water-cooler shows.
We kinda lost that when shows were released all-at-once where someone could binge the entire season in one weekend... but you couldn't talk about it because someone else is inevitably behind.
While I'm upset that Apple is releasing episodes of Silo once a week... I know why they are doing it.
No worries though... I still have many other shows to watch. I never watched Ozark season 4 so I can catch up on episodes of that in-between episodes of Silo.
There are so many shows to watch... new and old.
The one-episode-per-week schedule also benefits the production company by giving them a couple of extra months to finish post-production on the latter episodes of the season. When the first episode is released, the last few usually have finished filming but are not ready to stream. To land all of them at the same time, Silo S2 would need to be released in a few months later instead of now. A fairly infamous example of this is Stranger Things S1, where they had the final edits ready to go, encoded and packaged just an hour before the entire season was dropped on Netflix for the first time.
I was listening to an interview with Jon Stewart, and he commented that the streaming services insist that they get by with a much smaller writing room than one would typically use. Not that you can’t write a fantastic show with a small smaller writing room, but it improves your chances of success to have more brains working on the script. Understanding this. It makes sense that the only great shows that have come to the streaming services are based on books.
My theory is that this is why good comedies are hard to make and why Simpsons isn't funny anymore. To write a whole season or movie worth of funny jokes must be extremely expensive. And anyone who can do it by themselves must be able to charge whatever they want and wouldn't risk their careers writing half assed stuff in half the time. But yeah, with books the writing is already done. I'm sure adapting is hard too though, so no offence to any writers who adapt successfully.
It's like regular television in the old days, you have to wait a week (or two) to watch the next episode of your favorite shows. The only difference is that you don't have to program the VCR anymore. 😂
There was a scene where this was explained. Juliette pleads with the dept head that the long series of temporary fixes is only putting off the inevitable failure, and that they need to shut down the generator to implement a real fix. The manager rejects this for a few reasons including personal pride and concern about darkness causing chaos. This scene and some of the dialog from previous scenes gives the impression that this incident is far from the first sign of trouble, and that this debate has happened several times in the past, which management repeatedly picking the short term fix.
In real life humanity is rife with choosing the short term over the long term, even when there are dire consequences. So this doesn't seem like bad writing to me--if anything it seems depressingly realistic. I see it all around me in the workplace, in politics, and in the personal lives of acquaintances.
This is not correct. Juliette has a discussion directly with the mayor and the acting sheriff that the repair needed to be done. This is followed by a public announcement that the generator will be shut down for 8 hours and that a curfew will be in place. There are additional scenes following this where everyone prepares for the outage. All of maintenance department meets, including the department head, to plan out the repair. The mayor meets with the acting sheriff and deputies to discuss the blackout. Then everyone in the silo is shown either going home or gathers in designated common areas with portable lights.