Review 695: Silo (Season 1)

  

Silo is gripping  thanks to its strong production values and a  performance from star Rebecca Ferguson.

Based on a series of e-books Silo by Hugh Howey; In a dystopian future where a community exists in a giant silo that extends hundreds of stories underground, 10,000 people live in a society bound by regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson), an engineer who works on the generators in the lowest levels becomes embroiled in the mysteries of the Silo’s past and present.

Silo asks What is the truth? Who owns the truth and who is telling the Truth? Again and again, we see Juliette question the nature behind the Silo   

Directors Morten Tyldum, David Semel, Bert and Bertie (fresh off Marvel's Hawkeye) and Adam Berstein's direction is The score by Atli Orvarsson is haunting, the production design is astonishing and immaculate, all the building blocks, the alleyways, the stairways have this rounded, circlular element to them. It also replicates a lot of things we're use to in the real world i.e. living spaces, factorys and farms adding to the sense that this is a fully fuctioning world. The cinematography is beautiful