Mostly a strong final few episodes to end the season and a pretty good if not slightly frustrating finale at times, IMO. Overall, though, I just don't think it's ever a good idea to have your lead separated from the rest of the cast for that long, but I'm glad they're at least finally all back together. I just wish we had, like, five minutes of them interacting again as opposed to ending on the fire. That, and as intriguing as the final sequence/flashback was, more than anything it made me want to have had more of that kind of stuff sprinkled throughout.

Oh, well.

I'm definitely curious to see where things go from here, I'm excited that it won't feel like two separate shows anymore, and that an end game is in place with a two-season run to wrap it all up. Hopefully that means a bit more focus and a lot less water treading from here on out.

So any ideas on the scene in Washington? What was that all about. For a while I thought the congressman's voice was the same voice Lukas heard in the tunnel or the same voice Common heard in the vault. Theories on pez dispenser?

I could be off, but from what I gathered they were mostly discussing an Iranian nuclear attack on Washington D.C., one that occurred at some point in the relatively recent past. Hence the radiation scan and all the clues dropped in their conversation (purposely written in a vague manner so we're having to play catch up). While the woman/reporter was ultimately trying to get details from the congressman on America's imminent counter attack.

My out-of-left-field guess is that the congressman potentially goes on to be a key figure in building the silos, in the wake of nuclear war. But, like, years if not decades away, seeing as the time period looked to be roughly our present day and the holographic/A.I. tech in the silos feels very futuristic. That, and they make it a point to underline that the congressman is only in his first year. Either way, maybe the congressman has a thing for pez dispensers and eventually brings one into the silo? Or, that exact pez dispenser is the one that makes into the silo via the reporter?

Missed that. What was it?

It was a cover with an adult and child in yellow radiation suits with the caption "The New Normal?"

Just finished the episode and paid attention to this since you asked about it. It looks to be an advertisement for the silos maybe? There's a man and kid in a radiation suit and seems to be referencing Georgia through the design (looks like The Masters font and colors)

Did Juliette just haphazardly kill Bernard?

One thing that kept running through my mind this season was that Knox doesn't get enough hate. He turned Juliette in to protect mechanical but then forced mechanical to wage war when they were about to do the same to him.

Curious what the correlation is between the safeguard and the poison outside. Solo mentioned them not dying right away a few times but not sure how blowing up the pipe that poisons the silo would impact the outside.

Also, why did The Algorithm only let Camille stay in the vault? I'm thinking it wants to doom the silo and in exchange will let them live, and it assumes (probably correctly) that Camille would be okay with that.

Am I mistaken or didn't the congressman have the book that Juliette and others found in Season 1 - the pictures of Georgia beaches (if I recall)

So that would be the same book and same pez dispenser, right? I assume like others - he's one of the main builders of the silo (Army Corps of Engineers) - and guessing he and the reporter will get more screen time in the next seasons, and probably end up together. She's a big enough actress where she wouldn't just be a quick cameo.

It was a magazine

The reporter implies there is a significant chunk of the population questioning if the attack really happened.


^^ that was interesting for sure

I read the books halfway through this season so feels like I can't really participate in the theorizing anymore but I thought that was a strong end to the season.

I kind of think they should have just left it a mystery what happened to Juliette until the next to last episode and then squeezed everything that happened in the other silo into that episode to set up the finale.

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I read the books halfway through this season so feels like I can't really participate in the theorizing anymore but I thought that was a strong end to the season.

I kind of think they should have just left it a mystery what happened to Juliette until the next to last episode and then squeezed everything that happened in the other silo into that episode to set up the finale.

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I think they messed up by making Lucas's part much smaller. He was the link. He should have become shadow like 2-3 episodes earlier.

Love reading all the extra clues you guys caught, re: the timeline/etc of that final scene/flashback. This is TexAgs at its finest.

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Am I mistaken or didn't the congressman have the book that Juliette and others found in Season 1 - the pictures of Georgia beaches (if I recall)

So that would be the same book and same pez dispenser, right? I assume like others - he's one of the main builders of the silo (Army Corps of Engineers) - and guessing he and the reporter will get more screen time in the next seasons, and probably end up together. She's a big enough actress where she wouldn't just be a quick cameo.

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Yeah, I kept wondering is that Jessica Henwick? And then when the credits confirmed it I figured she has to be back at some point. While the guy was Shiv's on-and-off-again affair in Succession where he plays... a hotshot Washington insider. So for a second there it felt like some kind of random Succession crossover and I got even more excited/confused. Either way, yeah, there's no way we don't see them again.

Enjoyed the last two episodes.

Agreed with others that they should have cut out at least 2 episodes from the season, if not more.

My biggest complaint is ending the season with 2 characters we'd, until that point, never met. It just seems strange.

Open the season finale with that scene if you are going to do it at all. I just don't like introducing new characters in the last 10 minutes of the last episode of the season especially with all the **** hitting the fan in this episode. It takes away from the season as a whole, even if I'm really interested in where the flashback plot line is going.

Great finale! Bravo!!! Was going to get Book 2: Shift and start reading then figured why rush?

I did think they'd wait until the season three premiere and do a kind of a cold open with that.

Good stuff, maynard

I don't understand why killing the entire Silo would "safeguard" anything. Who cares if the silo is saved if everybody inside is dead? I'm also still not sure what the point of the blue sky and green grass projection is. Why make helmets that can do that? I can maybe see why for the big screen in the past (because maybe the first people in the silo might like to see that to remind them of the old days). But the helmet confuses me.

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For a second I thought my Apple TV had glitched and kicked me over to a different show.

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OMG!! I literally turned to my wife and said "Um, did we switch shows??"

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Great finale! Bravo!!! Was going to get Book 2: Shift and start reading then figured why rush?

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If you DO want to read, you're going to need the first book. No spoilers, but there's enough deviation that starting with book 2 won't give you what you're looking for. I thought it was an enjoyable good but not great series. Just start with book 1.

Ashley Zukerman and Jessica Henwick have joined the series regular cast of the Apple TV+ series ‘Silo’ for Season 3.

Zukerman will star as ‘Daniel,’ a young and hungry congressman, and Henwick as ‘Helen,’ a whip-smart reporter.

More details here: https://t.co/tXPnECpt9N pic.twitter.com/mL9DKdix9w

— Deadline (@DEADLINE) January 17, 2025

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I don't understand why killing the entire Silo would "safeguard" anything. Who cares if the silo is saved if everybody inside is dead? I'm also still not sure what the point of the blue sky and green grass projection is. Why make helmets that can do that? I can maybe see why for the big screen in the past (because maybe the first people in the silo might like to see that to remind them of the old days). But the helmet confuses me.

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It's a psychological trick to get people to clean the camera. They say on the show "everyone swears they won't clean but they always do." It's because they see a world that's perfectly fine and want others to see.

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aTmAg said:

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I don't understand why killing the entire Silo would "safeguard" anything. Who cares if the silo is saved if everybody inside is dead? I'm also still not sure what the point of the blue sky and green grass projection is. Why make helmets that can do that? I can maybe see why for the big screen in the past (because maybe the first people in the silo might like to see that to remind them of the old days). But the helmet confuses me.

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It's a psychological trick to get people to clean the camera. They say on the show "everyone swears they won't clean but they always do." It's because they see a world that's perfectly fine and want others to see.

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Yeah, but they've seen other people clean the camera and it doesn't turn green and blue.

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aTmAg said:

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I don't understand why killing the entire Silo would "safeguard" anything. Who cares if the silo is saved if everybody inside is dead? I'm also still not sure what the point of the blue sky and green grass projection is. Why make helmets that can do that? I can maybe see why for the big screen in the past (because maybe the first people in the silo might like to see that to remind them of the old days). But the helmet confuses me.

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It's a psychological trick to get people to clean the camera. They say on the show "everyone swears they won't clean but they always do." It's because they see a world that's perfectly fine and want others to see.

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Yeah, but they've seen other people clean the camera and it doesn't turn green and blue.

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But they don't know why the other people are cleaning.

With that said, I am kind of with you on all the questions. The psych trick to get them to clean is possible but seems weak as there are better ways to keep the cameras clean.

I guess we will get these answers in season 3 when we explore the past. The nuclear bomb explanation only makes sense in tandem with the poison. Although, that just seems like a bizarre way to govern the silos. Perhaps the nuclear talk was a cover-up for something more sinister, or the poison, "ritual killings", etc. came about after some failed silos.

Oh ***** I'm ready for the Dharma Initiative