Silo’s season finale ending explains why the show had so many mysteries

Right from the start SiloThe mystery has continued. What were the Silo authorities doing with birth control devices? What were they aware of life outside the doors? Who is behind these murders and who was the culprit? What was Juliette Nichols’ (Rebecca Ferguson’s) role in this?

Season 1 concludes with some conclusions. But ultimately what season 1 ends with is a lot more questions — and frankly, that’s for the best. The arc of Hugh Howey’s Wool series promises a lot more sci-fi intrigue than we got in Silo Season 1. The end of the first season promises an even bigger and more complex season 2.

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for the end of Silo season 1, and some discussion of the first book in the Silo series, Wool.]

What does Silo’s season 1 ending mean?

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In a certain light, SiloSeason 1 has a lot of conspiracies. Juliette, unluckily (for her), manages to detangle You can find out more about this by clicking here.It took me only a few short weeks to become sheriff. The government You can learn more about this by clicking here.By keeping some people sterilized, they have effectively controlled the population. Robert (Common), Judicial, and the Silo have surveilled the Silo, controlling its citizens with a mixture of bureaucratic nonsense, brutal force and espionage. George’s death was actually suicide, trying to escape Judicial’s clutches. Robert and the new Mayor Bernard (Tim Robbins), who is also the current mayor of Silo, have been working together to keep Silo residents in the darkness.

But the full extent of their control isn’t something Juliette, or the audience, fully understand. After all, we get hints that the denizens of the Silo might be getting drugged so they forget the outside world (explaining why no one remembers what “stars” are, even after just a little over a hundred years underground). It’s not something Silo really gets into — yet — but it seems in line with the mysterious Founders’ mission to focus on life in the Silo.

Perhaps most importantly, Juliette learns what outside the Silo actually looks like — and it’s actually You can also read more hereIt was not something the government told people. The idyllic “outside” Juliette and others had been spreading was an illusion, seemingly a visual effect the government made so those sent outside the Silo would feel the urge to clean the sensor before dying.

Juliette survives thanks to the heat tape which keeps her suit completely airtight. By getting to the top of the hill, she discovers that the world is more ruined and desolate than they thought. There are also many more silos.

This is the perfect place to go on vacation SiloTo pick up in a season 2 that has already been greenlit. The “What’s outside the Silo?” puzzle took a backseat to most of the inside-Silo intrigue. But it was also the problem looming over everything, a mysterious motivating factor behind both Julliette’s personal questions with George and Bernard’s efforts to keep the Silo under his thumb. Season 1 may have been bogged down by one mystery after another. But the finale promises to bring them all together behind a larger, animating factor. There are more silos, more people, and more dire circumstances to explore than just that of Julliette’s Silo.

Wool books are good for you. SiloBased on, Julliette will have even more problems once she realizes the extent of the plot.

The first Silo novel ends with a question.

[Ed. note: This is where the book spoilers start, obviously, so only read on if you want to know what happens in the book and maybe the show.]

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Though it is a bit surprising, SiloIt is a fairly faithful sequel to the plot of the first novel. WoolThe book does not end where the show ends.

After Juliette is sent to clean in the book, she ends up at the door of another Silo. A man explains that she’s currently in Silo 17, where he is the lone survivor of an uprising several years back. She reconnects with the IT man in Silo 18, her Silo, and they both force Bernard to reveal what his plan is. The silos were frequently disrupted, but the rebellions often failed. If a Silo revolt succeeds, the authorities will kill everyone inside Silo 1. Bernard hoped to maintain order for the sake of the greater good. Bernard dies when he is forced to go outside and clean, while Juliette becomes the mayor of Silo 18 by a landslide.

We’re not sure yet how closely the show will follow the rest of WoolWool, for example. But it’s yet another compelling place for the show to go — a sci-fi series that’s asking: Maybe that government conspiracy… made some points?