What To Know
- Silo Season 3 introduces dual timelines, exploring both Juliette’s present-day struggle with memory loss and flashbacks revealing why the silos were built.
- Rebecca Ferguson previews the season, hinting at an ongoing battle to control Juliette’s memories.
- The season promises to expand the show’s world and history significantly.
Humanity has survived the apocalypse in underground silos for centuries in Apple TV‘s sci-fi drama Silo, but leadership has buried their rebellious history for generations. Engineer Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) left home and found answers in Season 2, revealing life-changing revelations about the system she and her neighbors are trapped under, but memory loss has robbed her of the truth upon her return. While Juliette fights to recover the facts in Silo Season 3, we also learn the reason the silos were made in thrilling flashbacks.
Siloreturns on Friday, July 3, in a season poised to shift the focus from “What is the silo?” to “Why was this system created in the first place?” In the present-day timeline, Juliette survives her forced “cleaning” but returns with memory loss as the silo recovers from rebellion and faces a dangerous new threat. Meanwhile, in the “Before Times,” journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) uncover a conspiracy that pulls them into a chain of events with catastrophic, irreversible consequences. Colin Hanks is involved in the flashback scenes this season as well, but his role is still a mystery.
Ferguson explains how the expansion of timelines changes the storytelling inSiloSeason 3.
“It changes the time focus,” the Mission: Impossible franchise star tells TV Insider. “Suddenly we are looking back. Way back. At a time that more resembles our own… but where, for some reason, underground silos are being built and filled. Finding out why becomes the real focus. It’s so fun watching the merging of the two worlds.”
Jessica Brown Findlay and Ashley Zukerman in Silo Season 3 Episode 1 (Apple TV)
Juliette has spent much of the series reacting to systems that were already in place. Is Season 3 the point where she starts actively shaping the future rather than uncovering the past?
“Season 3 is Juliette’s gloves-off moment,” Ferguson says. “Past systems are out. Any belief in the past order is over. Actively shaping the future. Juliette’s still fighting the here and now.”
Juliette’s memory loss presents conflicts on several layers. First, Ferguson says, “There is an enormous conflict within herself as she battles with trying to remember the past.” And then, Ferguson says that “separate from her, there is a very real conflict between the people trying to fight to bring her back and the powerful few benefiting from Juliette’s memory loss.”
The world of Silo has always felt much larger than what we’ve seen on screen. When it comes to the amount of history viewers will finally get to learn this season, Ferguson gives a short but intriguing answer: “Oh wow… so much!”
Silo, Season 3 Premiere, Friday, July 3, Apple TV