![]() Like the Snowpiercer train rotated 90 degrees, people who live near the top of the silo are relatively bourgeois administrators-a mayor, a sheriff, the director of IT, the shadowy head of the judiciary-with class ranks steadily lowering as one reaches the bottom of this enormous shaft. The world of the series is both cramped and pleasingly expansive-this silo has a lot of floors, and houses an intricate social order. ![]() As the title may suggest, the show-based on a book series by Hugh Howey and adapted for television by Justified creator Graham Yost-takes place in a gigantic silo, mysteriously constructed some centuries before the action of the story and now home to about 10,000 souls who know next to nothing about human history, though they may be all that’s left of it. So it’s something of a cozy throwback to tuck into the new series Silo (AppleTV+, May 5) and once again be immersed in the earth-toned despair of Earth’s weary remnant. (That’s where that show takes place, right?) ![]() As the real world seems to teeter on the brink of its own ruin, we have instead opted to visit fancy hotels, peer in on toxic boardrooms, and watch whatever it is they’re doing in Yellowstone National Park. But even with the bleak realism of Last of Us and Station Eleven around to keep us depressed, the trend has been waning. One could run a maze, walk with the dead, hungrily game, and do whatever they were doing in the Incarceron books. ![]() There was a time, not long ago, when dystopian entertainment options were myriad. ![]()
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