Silo
The truth will surface.
In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.
Wokeness: 60%
Overall Score: 60%
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Jeff K
Woke
Full of forced diversity, inverted gender roles, women-worshipping and simp men - just as you'd expect from Apple.
Plot is generic and the dialogue mediocre.
Created: 05-23-2023
Michaels
The Silo is the Matrix
Following in the venerable footsteps of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, 1984, and the Matrix, Silo is rabidly anti-authoritarian government. "Woke" people are pro-authoritarian government, so I regard this show as anti-woke, despite some woke elements, such as a lesbian couple, done subtly so far.
Who is in power today in America (2023)? The FBI/DOJ. Without their tireless efforts to hide Biden's crimes, he would not remain president. Likewise, Congress is also blackmailed by the FBI.
Who is in power in the Silo? Judicial: a female judge plus her man-in-black who does the dirty work to help maintain her tenuous grip on power. They are black, but clearly not there as Affirmative Action casting decisions; these two characters are evil, abusers of power and violence. Admittedly, the judge makes reference to a mysterious "They" who actually call the shots, but this just makes it all the more realistic.
Both Judicial and the Mayor are above all concerned with maintaining order (and hence their power). Truth is of zero concern to them when stability is at stake. Without a second thought, they set up patsies to take the fall for crimes, so that people will not think law and order has broken down.
Eventually, the retarded, woke execs at Apple will realize what is going on in this show, and they will deal with the writers the way Silo's Judicial would deal with any silo residents spreading the truth - or the way the DOJ/FBI would deal with anyone protesting elections for the appearance of fraud.
Created: 08-05-2023
bobthebuilder
Very hit or miss, high highs, low lows.
This one is going to take a few words to unpack, so bear with me. First off, wokeness.
The Wokeness
The show shovels feminist garbage down your throat every time it can. The main character is truly unlikeable, since in the feminists' 10 commandments, a women shall not be nice. Silo is filled with gender-reversal and so on. Men take a backseat to "strong independent women" etc.
*However*, there is an attempt here to steer off the mary-sue trope. Sometimes it succeeds. The main character has flaws and is once or twice, helped by a man. Heresy! the feminists cry, eyes filled with bitch-tears.
There is a single mention of a gay couple during the show, and crazy enough, I wished they delved deeper. Analyzing how a siloed culture would react to same-sex couples. For ex, on the one hand you might want to encourage making kids... But on the other, limited mouths to feed... Anyhow, a non-propagandist exploration of that topic would've been interesting, if done right.
If you are sensitive to wokeness, this will be too much for you. But it isn't as bad as other shows, there was a visible attempt to tone it down. Pulling it back 1 or 2 notches more would've been perfect for me, allowing me to get immersed and forget that at its core, this is a feminist propaganda piece, not art.
The Show
Silo is at times brilliant, with good acting and twists, but more often than not quite dull and sluggish. I've already talked about the main character being hard to like, others aren't much better either. I'd say you have to really push through the mid-section, to enjoy a superb last 2-3 episodes.
In case you want to suffer through it, the show raises many questions and it *does* answer them. You'll get a great payoff at the end, leaving you satisfied and interested for more. Whether I can survive the wokeness of another season remains to be seen.
In terms of the setting, everything is very surface level. The world and culture remains vastly unexplored, or simply identical to modern life. The show breaks its own internal logic at times, pulling you out of it. Silly scenes also lower the impact of the overall drama.
Visually, the silo is too clean, looks unlived in and artificial. The decors are repetitive copy-past CGI and only serve as a facade. I understand budget constraints, but this show would've done well with more "practical stuff" thrown around on sets. Shadows and darkness aren't utilized well. You never get that sense of mystery, triggering your imagination to dream about how it would be like to live in a silo, or what lies in the hidden spots of this vast underground city.
Overall, this is a toss up. Flip a coin, watch a few episodes and see if it's your jam. You WILL be rewarded by a great ending, but you'll probably hate the main character (by design).
Created: 12-10-2023
