Finally I got a working laptop and I thought i should test it by watching one of the millions of TV shows that have sprung up over the last few years. When I had no means of easily watching stuff it seemed as though every day I would read a review of some stunning, amazing, essential new show.
But now I had the opportunity to watch things, I couldn't remember any of them... end then the name Silo came to me, a sci-fi thing about people living in a sort of totalitarian future in a big hole in a ground cos the air outside is contaminated - or is it? Maybe their leaders have been lying to them the whole time...
Well of course they have, and fair enough that's so obvious that they reveal it after about ten seconds, thing is the rest of the first series is entirely preoccupied with politics of The Silo and you don't really learn much else about the stuff that they hint at and which would really be more interesting. Although within the above limitations and so on it is pretty good apart from a couple of horribly predictable deaths.
To me if you can tell what's gonna happen, not cos it makes sense in the story you're watching, but cos you just know the rules of these types of dramas then that's a massive failure, a surrender to cliche and sadly it happens here.
Anyone else seen The Silo? Have any thoughts?
