Warning: This text accommodates spoilers for the Season 3 premiere of “Silo.”
No, you are not the one forgetting issues. “Silo” Season 2 ended on the granddaddy of all cliffhangers again in January of 2025, constructing to the stunning conclusion that noticed Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette Nichols getting back from the (largely) empty Silo 17 with a purpose to warn all her pals again dwelling about an existential menace. Sadly, she will get waylaid by the disaffected and suicidal Head of IT Bernard Hollands (Tim Robbins), trapping them each within the silo airlock and subjecting them to a fiery inferno that appeared to spell the top for our greatest hero and the most important villain of the present.
In that gentle, you would be forgiven for questioning precisely why “Silo” Season 3 (learn /Movie’s assessment right here) begins fairly a while later, skipping over the fast aftermath and selecting up once more in a setting that hardly resembles the one we final noticed. Having recovered from her accidents (and saved by that firefighter swimsuit), Juliette is now Mayor. Bernard is gone, with flashbacks seemingly confirming that Robert Sims (Frequent) did the deed himself. And the rise up that threatened to overturn the silo — and doubtlessly set off the lethal Safeguard protocol — has been nearly fully quieted.
All the things seems to be on the up and up … aside from the truth that Juliette cannot bear in mind a rattling factor previous to her accident. That one wrinkle throws every little thing into disarray, resetting Juliette’s progress again to sq. one whereas threatening at hand over a clear and straightforward win to new IT head Camille Sims (Alexandria Riley) and the mysterious, faceless entity directing her each step. What occurred to Juliette’s reminiscence, and what is the precise trigger behind this amnesia? Thankfully, the Season 3 premiere (aptly titled “Who Are You?”) explains all of it.
Who’s drugging Juliette with memory-loss capsules in Silo Season 3, and why?
When you thought one thing felt decidedly off with the early scenes of Juliette Nichols going about her mayoral duties whereas Camille Sims canine her each step, you had been proper. “Silo” Season 3 jumps ahead roughly three months after the explosive occasions that ended Season 2, when Juliette has bodily recovered from her accidents — however not mentally. Or so it seems, not less than. Her innocuous every day routine of ingesting “nutritional vitamins” from a useful nurse and dutifully following all of Camille’s mild governing strategies out of the blue turns far more sinister as soon as we notice the reality.
The reality, after all, is that that is all a part of the plan concocted by the mysterious, number-crunching Algorithm and carried out by its loyal servant Camille. Within the premiere’s closing scene, we be taught that this entity has ordered her to drug Juliette with memory-wiping capsules and substitute her recollections with no matter Camille tells her as an alternative — just like the lie that, when Juliette ventured out to scrub and disappeared past the attain of the digicam, she merely visited a “refuge hut” the place she took shelter till she returned relatively than her complete expertise on the decrepit Silo 18. The “why” of all of it is relatively simple as nicely. With the Mayor safely in hand and underneath management, the disruptive rise up she inadvertently impressed dies a quiet dying and stability returns to the silo. The inhabitants can proceed residing in ignorance as they had been earlier than, and the unknown agenda behind the silo stays unchallenged.
That does not clarify the “how,” although, or “the place” — as in, the place we have seen this memory-wiping storyline earlier than. We actually have, although, as observant viewers might have put collectively. And these origins might level to a lot greater issues to come back in “Silo.”
The place we have seen these memory-wiping medicine in Silo earlier than
Now, earlier than anybody begins complaining about handy plot units, a revisit of the earlier seasons of “Silo” might first be so as. Sequence creator Graham Yost and his writers have clearly taken a birds-eye view of the collection from the start, fastidiously laying out the narrative beats of the story (tailored from the unique e book trilogy by writer Hugh Howey) and spooling them out throughout a number of years of tv. The thought of reminiscence has remained baked into the present from nearly the very starting, however significantly all through the occasions of Season 2. As a result of, sure, we have seen these memory-wiping medicine earlier than, and we’ll nearly actually see them once more.
Viewers might do not forget that the existence of those capsules had been beforehand alluded to by Robert Sims, again when he was appearing as Bernard’s assault canine and interrogated a captured Patrick Kennedy (Rick Gomez). Realizing of his sufferer’s tragic previous, Sims sought to achieve his sympathies by dangling a sure carrot in entrance of him in change for his cooperation: the flexibility to overlook the dying of his beloved spouse. Elsewhere, the concept of misplaced recollections performs a major position on this planet of “Silo.” As IT head Bernard and newly-minted shadow Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) uncover, the mysterious Salvador Quinn as soon as took determined measures to stop the implementation of the Safeguard in Silo 18. After destroying all traces of knowledge and knowledge relationship again to the “earlier than occasions,” Quinn went a step additional and added forgetting medicine into the water provide to lull the populace right into a false sense of safety. Sound acquainted?
“Silo” season 3 seems set to dive even deeper into this plot — and, as soon as once more, Juliette’s on the middle of all of it. New episodes hit Apple TV each Friday.
