Silo Season 3 Spent Too Long Looking Backward Just To Land the Obvious Punchline

If a show is going to spend time looking at what happens before an event takes place, it needs to make that storyline interesting.

Unfortunately, Silo Season 3 has failed to do that.

From the flashback at the end of Silo Season 2, we knew that either Daniel or Helen had to end up in Silo 18. In our hearts, we knew that Helen had to be the one who ended up there. 

Daniel was always way too important and smart to end up anywhere but Silo 1.

And so, we’ve spent the last nine episodes of Silo Season 3 getting us to the point we knew was coming, and it’s been a complete waste.

Silo Should Have Given Us Something Exciting

When we initially learned we were going to the “Before Times,” I was excited.

I wanted to see the silos being built and learn more about how The Pact was created.

I wanted to learn about The Order and the way Silo 1 was set up to control everything.

Instead, we got a romance that made no sense and added nothing to the series, and a thriller that fell flat at the final hurdle.

Once we got Colin Hanks’ Per on the screen, I thought this whole thing could pick up.

In the second Silo novel by Hugh Howey, we get a mystery as we follow a man who keeps waking up from cryo with no memory of who he is.

He does a job, but there are niggling thoughts at the back of his mind.

There are the odd flashes back to the “Before Times,” but they connect to the mystery of those memories coming back.

It’s fascinating, but I did wonder how it could be transformed into a TV show, as so much of it is internalized.

Per’s introduction offered that chance, and he revealed a little more about nanotechnology and the need for the silos.

Instead, Helen and Daniel decided they didn’t want to be a part of it, so what was the point in revealing everything?

The entire nine-episode arc could have been reduced to two or three episodes, giving time for something bigger and more thrilling inside the silos once they were all forced in.

A Twist Would Have Been Appreciated

Even the bomb’s drop wasn’t all that shocking.

With a group of people removing memories and abducting people to keep their plan a secret so audaciously, it was always clear they had something bigger in mind.

Daniel should have seen that on the morning of the speech.

Why were Daniel and Helen separated on their silo tours?

Why couldn’t Daniel and Charlotte meet for breakfast?

Silo Season 3 Episode 9 had a chance to deliver a major twist.

Maybe Daniel and Helen somehow ended up in a silo together.

Maybe it was the senator or Anna who ended up in Silo 18 with the Pez.

The Pez could have even been dropped as everyone panicked when the bomb went off, leading to a child picking it up and taking it into the silo.

In fact, Helen could have given the Pez to someone else earlier in the season, raising questions about whether she got it back or how a person abducted it ended up in the underground bunkers.

Instead, I’m left wondering what I’ve learned that couldn’t have just been quickly told to us through Bernard explaining The Order to Juliette.

It rushed the present-day storylines, including the hunt for Orla’s murderer and the rebellion group fighting back.

We had to wait eight episodes for Lucas and Kennedy to get to Silo 17, and there’s been no time spent there after a whole season of learning about Solo and the event that happened there.

My only hope now is that Silo Season 4 does a better job of making the past intriguing so it can wrap the entire series well.

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