I was nervous about the amnesia storyline, but I get why they did it, and they're moving away from it quickly.

Still one of my favorite shows on TV.

They went a little on the nose with the "Oh, it's the Congressman who is the hero of New Orleans because he built tunnels!". The subtlety of a brick to the face

Another pretty good episode. Definitely a lot more going on than last season. Almost too much at times; as it is 5 minutes here and then 5 minutes there and then 5 minutes somewhere else... and then 5 minutes 350 years in the past where everyone is long dead.

Surprised by Sims a bit. By the description of next weeks episode, I am guessing we will get more answers on that front. Just odd to reconcile the way he talked to her with him trying to help her, but maybe he just didn't want to draw suspicion. The nurse definitely should have given her a heads up on who she was going to meeting there though.

Also, the whole Orla storyline is just weird. I mean there has to be a reason they are giving it airtime, but it just seems odd to have all these storylines moving the plot along and then this seemingly localized murder plot that doesn't relate to anything else. Obviously it will have a role in all this somehow, but it just seems so out of place at the moment.

I really liked this week's episode. Felt like a good mix with both storylines.

Unlikely that the nurse knew who would be there.

Good episode though.

In a funny twist Common's bad acting is now sort of great acting in a meta way. You think of Common as acting as a character who themselves are trying to act in such a way as to avoid suspicion from all sides, a sort of one-note style would actually work in their favor.

While I was watching the latest episode I started questioning how the nurse was convinced to go along with all this since she wasn't with judicial and we never saw her being blackmailed/threatened and then two seconds later she's pulling a double cross.

I presume that the missing personnel from supply somehow figured out what the Vitamin D+ really is but I'm not really sure why their bodies were hidden.

I think it's pretty safe to say at this point that Sims is the leader of some kind of resistance to Camille. He's clearly orchestrating things, but nobody knows it's him.

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While I was watching the latest episode I started questioning how the nurse was convinced to go along with all this since she wasn't with judicial and we never saw her being blackmailed/threatened and then two seconds later she's pulling a double cross.

I presume that the missing personnel from supply somehow figured out what the Vitamin D+ really is but I'm not really sure why their bodies were hidden.

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When Robert and Camille were talking in the hallway, he makes it clear that he handpicked the nurse b/c of her loyalty. The nurse doesn't know about the algorithm, she is just choosing to obey Robert who she has a working history with over Camille that has the power but she doesn't know.

Actually, I am a bit curious why it took so long for them to start swapping her meds, since I'm guessing Robert made the decision to discretely save Bernard, presumably almost immediately. Perhaps Camille had a different nurse tending her at first and Robert had to pull some strings to get the current nurse installed. Also, why would she let Camille know that she quit taking her meds, that seems counter. I'm assuming Camille sent her to check b/c they had video, but she could have easily said she didn't find anything.

I'm guessing Robert, Bernard and Walker are working together. Robert saved Bernard and Walker is the one that put that 'locked' door up. Also, Walker knew to give her something from her past. There are some others in the mix too I suppose, like the girl that traded for a toy from her childhood. Although, her trading away her sheriff's badge for it would counter that, but could have been a fake or something??

I think she knew. Robert would have had to communicate with her what was about to go down and to get her to that room.


Regarding the twist, yeah, I was really annoyed with him this season that he kept on harping on her pulling a gun on them with all the crap he has done, but now it is obvious he was just trying to help her remember things from the past.

Do we think Camille is actually helping too but lying to the machine? That's probably a step too far but that "good at lying" scene was pretty pointed and then she was terrible at lying the time we saw her try to lie to it.

But that's probably too much.

Since Orla was from supply I've been assuming she got disappeared because she helped with the super tape that saved Juliette.

Great episode this week! Lots of questioned answered! Won't say too much at this point.

Felt weird having this show provide so many answers so quickly, so unlike it. Albeit, we had all these questions b/c they decided to arbitrarily skip 3 months, but I'll still take it.

Are we thinking it is another silo stealing their stuff? Not sure why else someone from the silo would steal agriculture lights. However, I would think they would put her body somewhere else, like outside of the silo, if so.

don't mean to derail, but I just started watching this show as well as Paradise. They seem to be the same thing. Which one is better?

Shows really aren't that similar. I've never felt that I'm watching the same show. For Paradise, I thought season 1 was better than season 2. But in my opinion I think they are both worth watching.

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don't mean to derail, but I just started watching this show as well as Paradise. They seem to be the same thing. Which one is better?

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Paradise has better living quarters.

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don't mean to derail, but I just started watching this show as well as Paradise. They seem to be the same thing. Which one is better?

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Make sure you're watching Fallout as well in order to hit the trifecta of doomsday bunker entertainment. Of the three shows Fallout is the most entertaining to me by a significant margin. Silo and Paradise are very different viewing experiences, and made for different audiences IMO. Silo is much more dry, serious, and detail driven. Paradise is more for your average viewer who doesn't necessarily want to pay that much attention, because if you are, you can drive yourself crazy watching Paradise because of how ridiculous it is at times, but there's also more fun moments in that show and there's not much fun when it comes to Silo. Silo is also very dark both visually on screen and subject matter wise, Paradise is brighter and has more optimism to it. Both are enjoyable for what they are as long as you're not trying to get the same thing from both.

I think the way they've chosen to structure this season is kind of weird. I still think it would have worked better to put basically all of the stuff in the past in one episode. Would have been much more impactful as an audience to have a "did I click on the right show... oh... OH..." episode rather this bring strung out over the whole season where they're having to have those characters do random things at times so that the plot doesn't advance too fast.

Other than a True Detective like show, has a show done that before? I wouldn't have minded that, but I can see the risk with forcing people to go through a whole season of having to adopt a whole new cast of characters, then going back to the original cast after that too. I thought last weeks was way too jumpy, especially seeing that we were just switching to a boring car ride.

You wouldn't need a whole season, you could summarize everything that's happened in the past in just one episode.

I'm going to spoiler tag the rest just in case because I've admitted on here that I've read the books, but I wouldn't really consider this a spoiler if you're watching this and thinking logically about the show's structure at all.

Obviously all of that stuff happening in the past has some kind of bearing or influence on what's happening in the present or it wouldn't be in the show. The way it's currently going my guess is that they're setting something up for the last episode of the season, so what I'd have done is put all of the storyline from the past in the next to last episode of the season.

Yeah that's one of two examples where they've had to have the characters in the past just essentially waste time. I do think people are sometimes too plot-focused and they get bored when there's scenes that don't advance the plot but are important for the characters to develop, and SOME of the car ride was an example of that, but that was a lot of being stuck in a car. The other one was when they drove all the way back to DC only to decide "you know what actually we do need that tape, let's drive back."

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I think the way they've chosen to structure this season is kind of weird. I still think it would have worked better to put basically all of the stuff in the past in one episode. Would have been much more impactful as an audience to have a "did I click on the right show... oh... OH..." episode rather this bring strung out over the whole season where they're having to have those characters do random things at times so that the plot doesn't advance too fast.

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Yep telling the current storyline up to a certain point , then telling the flashback in sequence over 1-2 episodes... would just have to pick the right moment to go back.

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Shelton98 said:

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don't mean to derail, but I just started watching this show as well as Paradise. They seem to be the same thing. Which one is better?

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Make sure you're watching Fallout as well in order to hit the trifecta of doomsday bunker entertainment. Of the three shows Fallout is the most entertaining to me by a significant margin. Silo and Paradise are very different viewing experiences, and made for different audiences IMO. Silo is much more dry, serious, and detail driven. Paradise is more for your average viewer who doesn't necessarily want to pay that much attention, because if you are, you can drive yourself crazy watching Paradise because of how ridiculous it is at times, but there's also more fun moments in that show and there's not much fun when it comes to Silo. Silo is also very dark both visually on screen and subject matter wise, Paradise is brighter and has more optimism to it. Both are enjoyable for what they are as long as you're not trying to get the same thing from both.

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I watched the first season of Fallout some time back. Too weird for me. But I will keep watching both of these shows I guess.