“Silo” is one in every of Apple TV’s most underrated sci-fi collection. The small display screen adaptation of Hugh Howey’s novel trilogy of the identical identify has a compelling thriller and impeccable worldbuilding. And with its story specializing in folks being trapped in remoted areas beneath mysterious circumstances (all whereas these in energy maintain the true historical past of the world a secret), it even seems like a live-action “Assault on Titan” TV present at occasions.
Throughout its first two seasons, “Silo” created a lived-in, tactile setting filled with memorable characters. It made the present compelling to observe even with out its central mysteries, including layers of that means to its thriller field plotting. Season 2 additionally ended on an enormous cliffhanger, and never only for the folks of the titular silo, whose lives could also be in imminent hazard. No, the massive reveal got here on the very finish, when “Silo” jumped again to the earlier than occasions previous to the top of the world. At this level, which appears to be like so much like our personal present actuality, Iran has seemingly simply detonated a grimy bomb on U.S. soil.
From there, we adopted a journalist named Helen Drew as she questioned a younger congressman as as to if the U.S. will retaliate towards Iran. Lower to Season 3, and Helen is now a part of the present’s essential ensemble, with Season 3 splitting its consideration between the previous and current. As for Helen? There is a cause she in all probability appears to be like acquainted.
Certainly, “Silo” is a present filled with nice actors, together with Rebecca Ferguson, Widespread, Tim Robbins, and the scene-stealing Steve Zahn. As for Helen? She’s performed by Jessica Henwick, who bought her begin on TV in 2010 on the fantasy collection “Spirit Warriors” earlier than scoring her large break in 2015 with roles in “Sport of Thrones” and “Star Wars: The Drive Awakens.”
Jessica Henwick has been in some enormous initiatives in addition to Silo
Jessica Henwick has amassed some spectacular credit in a reasonably quick period of time. For starters, she appeared on “Sport of Thrones” as Nymeria Sand, i.e. one of many illegitimate daughters of Pedro Pascal’s Prince Oberyn Martell, higher referred to as the Sand Snakes. Granted, that storyline wound up spelling bother for “Sport of Thrones,” however that definitely wasn’t Henwick’s doing.
From there, Henwick joined Marvel’s Netflix-verse because the martial artist Colleen Wing in “Iron Fist,” a job she reprised for “Luke Cage” and “The Defenders” as effectively. She additionally has expertise in voice appearing, having lent her vocals to each “Blood of Zeus” (an outstanding fantasy present based mostly on Greek mythology) and the anime “Blade Runner: Black Lotus.”
Elsewhere, Henwick has tackled roles each large and small on the film entrance. Her first credited function was Jessika “Testor” Pava in “The Drive Awakens,” one of many Resistance pilots that flies with Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron. She additionally appeared in “Underwater” (the 2020 Kristen Stewart film that begins out as a easy survival horror thriller earlier than turning into an precise Lovecraftian nightmare) and the criminally underrated monster journey movie “Love and Monsters” starring Dylan O’Brien (which got here out through the COVID-19 lockdowns). And let’s not overlook Henwick’s flip in “The Matrix Resurrections” as Bugs, the movie’s deuteragonist and the one that’s been searching for Neo (Keanu Reeves) when the film begins.
Extra just lately, Henwick starred in Netflix’s restricted collection “Vladimir” and had a small function in the under-seen Glen Powell automobile turned HBO Max hit “Learn how to Make a Killing.” Suffice it to say, between all of that and “Silo,” her profession goes fairly swimmingly in the intervening time.
New episodes of “Silo” premiere Fridays on Apple TV.
