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Silo review: With apocalypses everywhere, can a new TV show deliver?

Dystopias are everywhere on TV, but for every gem there is one to forget. A new offering, Silo, starts from a great premise about a society forced to live underground, but does it really deliver, asks Bethan Ackerley

By Bethan Ackerley

10 May 2023

Episode 2. Rebecca Ferguson in "Silo," premiering May 5, 2023 on Apple TV+.

Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) pieces together knowledge from the past

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Silo

Apple TV+

Streaming from 5 May

I AM experiencing apocalypse fatigue. I don’t mean the numb hopelessness many people feel in response to the climate crisis, but a weariness with the explosion of fictional cataclysms on TV.

For every gem like The Last of Us or Station Eleven there is an utterly forgettable show with little to add to a crowded canon. With the bar raised so high, it has never been harder for writers to make their own takes …

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