Silo Season 2: The Safeguard Explained – SlashFilm

The following comprises heavy spoilers for season 2 of “Silo.”

“Silo” is without doubt one of the finest sci-fi exhibits of the previous decade, one with a compelling thriller and beautiful worldbuilding that feels just like the fixed lore drops and plot twists of “Assault on Titan.”

The present takes place in a dystopian future the place many of the world has been destroyed and humanity worn out. The solely remnants of civilization dwell in an underground silo lots of of ranges deep. The present offers with the easy concept of information and the way exhausting it’s to kill human curiosity irrespective of how a lot these on the high use rules to maintain the inhabitants below management. On the finish of the primary season, former engineer now sheriff, Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) left her silo (a loss of life sentence) and truly managed to outlive her stroll exterior, finally discovering one other silo close by.

Season 2, which cemented “Silo” as among the finest exhibits on AppleTV+, and motive sufficient to subscribe to that platform, considerations Juliette discovering that the brand new silo she encountered had been worn out when the individuals revolted and tried to go away for the floor. Again dwelling, nonetheless, revolution is brewing and IT methods analyst Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) begins discovering the key previous of their very own silo, till he learns concerning the horrific security protocol often known as the Safeguard Process.

Although the season 2 finale of “Silo” already did a fairly expansive job explaining what the Safeguard Process is, some individuals have the inexplicable pastime of simply spoiling themselves on TV exhibits. Whether or not that is you, you have been watching the present along with your eyes closed, or went to the lavatory once they defined what this security protocol is, fret not. Here is your useful information as to what the Safeguard Process is in “Silo.”

Within the penultimate episode of “Silo” season 2, Lukas Kyle dives all the way down to the very backside of the silo and finds a mysterious tunnel — the identical one Juliette’s boyfriend George (Ferdinand Kingsley) was wanting into earlier than his loss of life within the first season. The tunnel results in a door that’s guarded by some AI-sounding voice that talks concerning the Safeguard Process that may kick into place if anybody dares cross that door or speak to anybody about what they discovered down there.

The Safeguard Process is actually a contingency plan in case the silo revolts, and it permits some unseen entity to kill each single particular person within the silo through a pipe stuffed with poison that will get distributed via the vents. It is a final-ditch effort to forestall the residents of a silo from escaping and alerting the opposite silos of their existence.

When Lukas learns about this within the season 2 finale, it wrecks his worldview as he realizes it would not matter how a lot the individuals of the silo struggle or how they attempt to liberate themselves or be taught the reality. They have been all the time, and can all the time be one button away from dying horrible deaths. The destiny of the individuals of the silos has all the time been out of their arms.

Similtaneously Lukas learns concerning the Safeguard Process in Silo 18, Juliete over in Silo 17 hears from Solo (performed by Steve Zahn, the most effective a part of “Struggle For the Planet of the Apes”) that his mother and father did know concerning the process that poured poison out of a vent.

Seems, Silo 17 had been a sufferer of the Safeguard Process once they tried to revolt. It began when a person wrote “LIES” on the skin digital camera when he left the silo to scrub, which made everybody within the silo imagine that it was protected to go exterior. This prompted a revolution that led to everybody deciding to go away their silo — and die attempting.

That is the crux of the season, as Juliette — understanding that everybody on Silo 18 died once they acquire hoped that somebody might survive exterior like she has — realizes that Silo 17 is about to endure the identical destiny as Silo 18. Certainly, a giant a part of the season’s story is the aftermath of Juliette’s miraculous stroll exterior, which sparks a revolt that almost tears the silo aside till Juliette comes again within the season finale.

We do not know for positive if the Safeguard Process will be stopped, nevertheless it looks as if it could actually. Whereas speaking to Juliette, Solo recollects the day his silo died, and the way his mother and father supposedly found the Safeguard Process and managed to discover a method to cease it. In line with Solo, his mother and father merely put a cap on the vent, stopping the process from killing everybody.

What’s extra, it appears individuals from Silo 17 managed to go exterior and never die — a minimum of not at first. No matter Solo’s mother and father did, it managed to make it protected to go exterior. That opens up an entire can of worms that “Silo” must discover come season 3. To date, we now have been led to imagine that the one strong truth within the present’s world was that the floor was radioactive or poisonous, and nobody might survive on the market. If the poison from the Safeguard Process can influence whether or not it is protected to go exterior or not, does it imply it’s one thing from contained in the silos that kill individuals once they depart for the floor? If that’s the case and it may be stopped, we’re in for a giant reckoning in season 3 of this Stephen King-licensed present.