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Apple TV's Hit Show 'Silo' is Returning Soon: Release Date and Trailer

I loved the first two episodes of the first season. I loved Rashida Jones character. I thought the show was really gonna go somewhere and keep me entertained and interested, I was wrong. I made it halfway through season two when I decided this was like a soap opera where you could come back in five years, and the characters will still be wandering around doing what they were doing, and there’s no development at all.
 
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kurtfoster said:
I loved the first two episodes of the first season. I loved Rashida Jones character. I thought the show was really gonna go somewhere and keep me entertained and interested, I was wrong. I made it halfway through season two when I decided this was like a soap opera where you could come back in five years, and the characters will still be wandering around doing what they were doing, and there’s no development at all.
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So, not like the books then 🙁
 
Loved first season, second season was a bit of struggle to get through. How long has it been since season two? I am struggling to remember how it ended.
 
I love the show and as I didn’t wanted to wait after the second season I just read the books. Still looking forward to seeing the next two seasons.
 
Continuity is a big issue when there is so long between seasons. And it is made much worse because they are dribbling out new episodes on a weekly basis so there is no chance to re-immerse in the series.

This series managed to stretch the first book out so much that it became way too slow and needed the ability to binge watch the episodes to make sense hence I waited for all episodes to drop before I watched the last season. Rebecca Ferguson was very good when we got to see her, but the story development was painfully slow.

Having read the books, I will be interested to see how they develop it, but I will wait until the entire series drops and then watch it at my own pace. After all I have waited so long for the next season, that waiting a little longer makes no difference. And who knows how long the final season will take to be released. Apple take way too long to release new seasons of their prime series and then they dribble them out on a weekly basis making the whole thing painful and not at all pleasurable.
 
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CarAnalogy said:
I read all the books when it was the first Kindle Originals scifi hit. How is the show compared to the books?
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General story is the same but with some twists and feels more sci-fi. E.g. there are hidden camera's, Solo's character is almost the opposite and they changed some characters' age. Showing things like daily life in the Silo is better in the show.
 
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Pessimistic me: This is an excuse to spend an entire season before how it began, just like how season 2 was a bit wasted in the slow plot. So in the end the entire story may not move forward much if we are spending a lot of time in the before times.
 
QuarterSwede said:
Oh it’s definitely a night time show with the lights off on an OLED. Sooooo good.
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djphat2000 said:
I went out an bought an OLED because I got sick of dark scenes not being DARK. And barely seeing the color or light as the director intended. 🤣
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I agree with you both that OLED is king with Dolby Vision in a dark room. But Silo has some raised black levels and not that much punchy highlights giving the show a somewhat faded look.

In my opinion the first season of Foundation makes an OLED really shine. The blacks are black, the highlights are punchy and the picture is clean with no noise and almost no grain at all.

The only downside of OLED is films and tv shows with simulated film grain and colors. The grain is really more contrasty on an OLED and there seems to have a new craze of simulating vintage photo or 16mm film stock with coarse grain. I couldn't watch Pluribus, The Studio, HiJack season 2, Club Palm Royale season 2 (the first season looks great on OLED) and The Lost Bus because of the distracting coarse grain and simulated film colors that crushes contrast and color hues making all the advantages of OLED technology moot in my opinion. This is not only Apple TV. The second season of Loki and the movie Marty Supreme is also using coarse film grain and old film colors (they even added dust speckles (!!) on Marty Supreme). Of course, watching a show like Pluribus or Hijack season 2 on a 1080p lcd tv or on a small screen is all right. It's on a large 4k OLED tv that the 16mm simulation looks bad.

Don't get me wrong. Fine film grain can look pleasant when used correctly on a large OLED and I don't mind it on old 35mm movies but the simulated vintage photo or 16mm film stock looks really bad on OLED and I can't wait for this craze to pass.

Compression is also at play here. It can make the grain even coarser or disappear entirely. For instance, watching Dune on Apple movies and on 4k Blu-ray is a whole different experience. You can see a nice film grain and richer color hues on blu-ray while the grain is almost all gone (or sometimes coarser) on the Apple movie stream and the color hues are less natural.
 
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I stopped watching after the first episode of the second season. A lack of ideas, endless scenes where nothing happens, and constant, cringeworthy flashbacks. The same applies to Monarch: the first season was fascinating. It would have been better to stop there.
 
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ignatius345 said:
Loved it but my TV screen didn’t. So many scenes that were so dark I could barely make out what was going on...
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We had that issue. I didn't try it on our Apple TV 4K device but had used the AppleTV app on our LG C series OLED TV and some scenes were impossible to see properly. We thought it was design choice but if we backed out to the main menu and back into the episode it seemed to had brightened up a bit. So not sure if that was something going on with Dolby Vision/HDR but it seemed to only effect Silo.
 
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Baseiseough said:
I agree with you both that OLED is king with Dolby Vision in a dark room. But Silo has some raised black levels and not that much punchy highlights giving the show a somewhat faded look.

In my opinion the first season of Foundation makes an OLED really shine. The blacks are black, the highlights are punchy and the picture is clean with no noise and almost no grain at all.

The only downside of OLED is films and tv shows with simulated film grain and colors. The grain is really more contrasty on an OLED and there seems to have a new craze of simulating vintage photo or 16mm film stock with coarse grain. I couldn't watch Pluribus, The Studio, HiJack season 2, Club Palm Royale season 2 (the first season looks great on OLED) and The Lost Bus because of the distracting coarse grain and simulated film colors that crushes contrast and color hues making all the advantages of OLED technology moot in my opinion. This is not only Apple TV. The second season of Loki and the movie Marty Supreme is also using coarse film grain and old film colors (they even added dust speckles (!!) on Marty Supreme). Of course, watching a show like Pluribus or Hijack season 2 on a 1080p lcd tv or on a small screen is all right. It's on a large 4k OLED tv that the 16mm simulation looks bad.

Don't get me wrong. Fine film grain can look pleasant when used correctly on a large OLED and I don't mind it on old 35mm movies but the simulated vintage photo or 16mm film stock looks really bad on OLED and I can't wait for this craze to pass.

Compression is also at play here. It can make the grain even coarser or disappear entirely. For instance, watching Dune on Apple movies and on 4k Blu-ray is a whole different experience. You can see a nice film grain and richer color hues on blu-ray while the grain is almost all gone (or sometimes coarser) on the Apple movie stream and the color hues are less natural.
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Wondering what TV you saw it on. I'm on a Sony Bravia 65" 2024 (not the second version of it that came out the following year). And the one app that shows movies in the WORST possible way is HBO Max. They figured out a way to prevent blacks from being black.
 
CarAnalogy said:
So, not like the books then 🙁
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No, its a pretty bad analysis.

S1 was the 1st half of Book 1.
S2 was the 2nd half of Book 1.

I think S3 and S4 are Book 2 and Book 3.

Its been a pretty good adaptation, with some other stuff thrown in.

There is another article on it (and discussion) here:

arstechnica.com

Silo S3 teaser hints at the wasteland's origins

Before we can know how it will all end, we need to understand how it all began."
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
 
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