Through "Silo" Season 2’s return to the 2024 TV schedule, the further mystery behind Silo 17’s past and Silo 18’s future continues to intrigue. With the fallout of Juliette’s exile in "Silo" Season 2’s early episodes coloring what we’ve seen so far, it appeared that this new round of author Hugh Howey’s best-selling dystopia was going to break into a more segmented sort of drama that would alternate between those two stories. However, Episode 3 proved that that format wasn't sticking around for long.
After seeing Episode 3, “Solo,” learning more about Steve Zahn’s enigmatic presence wasn’t the only clue we got for what the future will hold. The narrative has also now returned to a more traditional back and forth between “A” and “B” stories, and after speaking with showrunner Graham Yost, the reason for that decision was pretty clear.
After seeing Episode 3, “Solo,” learning more about Steve Zahn’s enigmatic presence wasn’t the only clue we got for what the future will hold. The narrative has also now returned to a more traditional back and forth between “A” and “B” stories, and after speaking with showrunner Graham Yost, the reason for that decision was pretty clear.
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00:00we focus on Juliet's story and then we go back to the silo
00:03in the next one.
00:04Was that a decision that was in the structure since day one?
00:08Or was that something that in the writing process
00:10you sort of found?
00:11When I was a 12-year-old boy, I said, one day I want to know.
00:14I mean, we landed on that pretty quickly.
00:18I'll be honest.
00:19There was a brief time where we thought
00:20about alternating episodes for like six episodes.
00:24And then we said, no, that's crazy making.
00:27And it's going to be frustrating to the audience.
00:30We need to cut back and forth.
00:31But first, let's establish their stories.
00:34So we just knew we wanted to get to Juliet.
00:37There's no sort of playing around with whether or not
00:39she's alive.
00:40Because we saw her alive at the end of the series.
00:42So stringing that out would be a mistake.
00:45But we did come up with this prologue idea
00:48that would then feed into her returning to the screen.
00:52And then we knew we wanted to roll back the clock.
00:57So we see her story in Silos 17 that plays out maybe five
01:02days, something like that.
01:03Now we roll back to the moment right after she
01:06walked over the hill.
01:07But we're with Bernard.
01:08Pretty much the moment, 10 minutes later.
01:10And we thought, oh, that's cool.
01:12We can do that.
01:13The audience will know exactly where we are.
01:15And that was fun.
01:17It was fun.