Apple TV+ has raised the bar for what viewers can expect from streaming television. No more middle-of-the-road content meant to play in the background. The platform has elevated its programming and provided the go-to destination for compelling sci-fi narratives. Silo is the highest-reviewed series and is also breaking records as it surges on streaming. Premiering in 2023, the post-apocalyptic show is adapted from Hugh Howey’sWool series.
Rebecca Ferguson stars as Juliette Nichols, one of the many citizens of the titular silo. Constructed to avoid whatever end-of-the-world scenario that ended up occurring, the bunker has survived many generations based on a rigid caste system. The spiral silo houses the most affluent at the top, while manual laborers like the mechanics who keep the generator running are at the bottom. It has been so long that no one knows how the world ended, but they outlaw any relics that pertain to the old world. Juliette starts to question this way of life when her lover seemingly falls to his death. Convinced he wasn’t suicidal, Juliette sets out to discover the secrets of the silo and exactly what the higher-ups are hiding. Even in Season 3, the series continues to break records as Silo nears its final season.
‘Silo’ Season 3 Answers Long-Awaited Questions
The question of who built the silo has long haunted the series. The inhabitants of the refuge understand that they can’t go outside but have no clue as to when the world will be inhabitable again. Silo Season 3 finally sets out to answer this question, though it takes a whole season to do it. This time, production takes a more creative approach to Hugh Howey’s books by incorporating an amnesia storyline for Juliette.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
After surviving the inferno of the entrance to her silo, Juliette retains no memories of anything before. Season 3 picks up with her taking over for Bernard (Tim Robbins) as mayor after his supposed death. It becomes clear quite quickly that Juliette is being manipulated by a corrupt system that refuses to die.
Perhaps the more compelling narrative, however, is the other half of the episode. Finally, audiences will get answers about what really ended the world in Silo as the series flashes back to before the structures were built. Estimated to be at least three hundred years ago, this society is the focal point of the new season. When a dirty bomb from Iran detonates in D.C., the U.S. government considers retaliation. Pilot Charlotte (Jessica Brown Findlay) begs her brother, Congressman Daniel Keene, to get on the Iran Committee while encouraging him to tell reporter Helen (Jessica Henwick) everything that is going on.
Charlotte’s paranoia indicates there is something else going on, but these secrets may be buried after she suffers a traumatic brain injury on a mission. This sets up yet another Silo mystery that fans desperately want answered. Season 3 shows exactly how the circumstances of the silos began and how it connects to Juliette’s situation. Silo continues to expand on the concept and keeps viewers hooked on the line. Like any good sci-fi, it seems to miraculously predict what is to come, sometimes in terrifying ways.
‘Silo’ Is the Perfect Sci-Fi Series
Apple TV+ has the right instinct to deliver Silo in a timely manner as well as wrap up the concise story. With only one season left in its life, the show continues to provide results. Season 3 is more stirring than most, with a narrative that is more relevant than ever. Even though there are still many mysteries, one of them has been solved in the form of the AI known as the Algorithm.
As it turns out, Judicial was following the artificial intelligence system that continues to manipulate the silo. It insists on drugging Juliette and implanting her with false memories so she doesn’t remember the other silo. Robert Sims’ (Common) wife, Camille (Alexandria Riley), is its point of contact and the main culprit in gaslighting Juliette. While a newly implemented council acts as though it is updating the Pact, the AI is still pulling the strings.
If this isn’t a direct commentary on modern society, who knows what is? Taking orders from a non-human entity and allowing it unlimited control is one of the main concerns of the world at the moment. Framing the AI as the ultimate villain is a perfect way to connect with audiences when everyone in reality seems complicit in bowing to their computer overlords.
Silo also speaks to the ever-growing concerns over the apocalypse. Climate change seems to be getting worse every day, and the food continues to poison its citizens. The only difference is that the characters of Silo are taking these threats seriously, while in real life, no one in Washington, D.C., seems competent enough to do so. Silo’s relevance is beyond question, and as frightening as it is, it has become the best sci-fi development in a long time.
