Silo episode 1 recap

Home » Streaming Service. Shockingly, he decides to venture out into this unknown. The Sheriff is seen with his wife, Allison. They have been granted clearance to try and conceive again.

In this caste-like culture with strict population control, Sherriff Holston Becker and his wife have been granted leave to have a baby. But discoveries are soon made that not only prevent their childbearing but also violate the sacred policies of their community. Somewhere in the far future, after an unknown apocalypse has ravaged the surface of the world, Sheriff Holston Becker screws shut the grate of a vent and then walks towards his office. Becker intones the words of The Pact, the spirit of the rules guiding their society and limiting their actions. We do not know who built the Silo. We do not know why everything outside the Silo is as it is.

Silo episode 1 recap

Now' Movie. The end of the world is just the beginning…of a lot of science fiction, actually. Sorry, fungus fans, but TLoU just never, ahem, grew on me. An enormous vertical concrete stack of level upon level of dwellings, marketplaces, livestock pens, indoor agriculture, you name it, it was built god knows when by god knows who to protect everyone inside it from god knows what is going on up on the apparently barren and toxic surface of the planet. The reason the whole situation is so shrouded in mystery, at least according to the official version of events, is that a rebellion dedicated to opening the door to the outside world completely destroyed all written and digital records of the past on its way to being crushed some years ago. Every year the defeat of the rebels is commemorated on a Fourth of July—type holiday called Freedom Day. But the people seem mostly content — almost incongruously so, since with a few sci-fi trappings aside, society seems basically stuck in a suburb circa Sheriff Becker and his sidekick Deputy Marnes Will Patton are real small-town sorts, genial and friends with everyone, rather than Imperial stormtroopers or Thought Police. What they discover on that drive will change everything. In the meantime, Holston and Allison spend a full year enthusiastically trying and failing to conceive a child. Childbirth is heavily regulated, you see, and they only have one year to get pregnant before Allison will be forced to have her birth control device reimplanted in her body. This is a violation of their cardinal law and a one-way, unrefusable ticket to, well, going out, and never coming back again.

The world outside the Silo is made to seem like a barren and deathly place.

By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. After sampling the first episode of 10 , will you keep watching? Silo Episode 1 opens with a passage from a text known as The Pact, as said by Sheriff Holston played by David Oyelowo as we watch him ready to do the unthinkable:. We do not know why we are here.

Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. She eventually accepts a deal from the secret Big Bad of the season, Bernard the mayor Tim Robbins , in which he promises no harm will come to her friends and family as long as she accepts her cleaning sentence, which up to this point means certain death. Oh, plus she learns what happened to her boyfriend George Ferdinand Kingsley , who jumped off the railing to keep the hard drive with clues as to what is really going on in the Silo safe. It brings closure but is also devastating. All in all, Jules has a pretty shitty last day in the Silo, but her story only gets wilder once she steps outside in the last five minutes of the episode. What she discovers moves the series into a whole new gear. But some major discoveries and reveals are happening within the Silo walls, too. This is the big moment that changes the game. To backtrack: The catalyst in Silo is, of course, Allison Rashida Jones and George finding that video of an old cleaning on the holy grail of a hard drive from before the rebellion. Of course, they assume this means the displays within the Silo are fake to keep people inside when the outside world is safe and lovely.

Silo episode 1 recap

Home » Streaming Service. Shockingly, he decides to venture out into this unknown. The Sheriff is seen with his wife, Allison. They have been granted clearance to try and conceive again. For Allison, this will be her third and final chance at having a baby. The citizens of the Silo are hopeful that Allison will conceive. She is hounded by a fertility counselor called Gloria , who wants to assist her in this journey. Allison politely refuses on numerous occasions. Gloria speaks privately with Allison, ranting about a conspiracy where the enforcers purposely prevent Allison from getting pregnant. Allison tries to ignore these crazed rantings the best she can.

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Streaming Guide. When Allison leaves the Silo she is convinced that there is a lush and verdant world outside that the Pact has lied to the people of the Silo about. Click to copy. The biggest revelation by the end of episode 2, "Holston's Pick," is that the Silo might not be the sanctuary that its people believe it is. He had pursued her and eventually came to believe that he had to see what she did. A humble, good-hearted Sheriff decides to leave the Silo, which can be done by anyone who announces their desire to leave, to track down his wife, who had left after discovering some of the Silo's deepest secrets. She rants about the Silo being a lie. More stories by Matt. It is a cultural psywar style of control. Amazon to Shut Down Freevee Report. Childbirth is heavily regulated, you see, and they only have one year to get pregnant before Allison will be forced to have her birth control device reimplanted in her body. We do not know who built the Silo.

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She then begins her trek over the hill… but collapses. In truth, Holston realizes that Allison was right all along. There are a lot of people like that, and so there have been a lot of shows like that too. Allison tells Holston that she will only clean the screen if she is confident that the outside world is inhabitable. Through that lens, he looks around, cleans the lens, and tries to walk up the hill, only to seemingly fall down and die. George thinks this technology comes from before the rebellion. Gold Derby. He and his family live on Long Island. More On: Silo. It is not known what exactly happened past that point.