Silo Renewed for 2 More Seasons — Apple TV+ Adaptation to Conclude With Season 4
Apple TV+ has committed to going down deep with its adaptation of Hugh Howey’s Silo novels.
The streamer announced on Monday morning that Silo, which is midway through streaming Season 2, has been renewed for another two seasons — and that Season 4 will bring the adaptation to a “final, thrilling chapter.”
Adapted from Howey’s bestselling Wool, Shift and Dust trilogy, Silo in Season 1 centered on the (presumably) last 10,000 people on Earth. The twist? They live in a mile-deep silo that is protecting them from a toxic world outside. Executive producer and Mission: Impossible/Dune franchise vet Rebecca Ferguson stars as Juliette Nichols, an engineer-turned-sheriff who aimed to unravel the mystery behind the underground civilization.
Silo Season 1 covered not even half of Howey’s first book, Wool. (Howey’s first, self-published take on the Silo world represents only the first 48 pages of Wool; the other 500 pages, starting with Juliette’s introduction, were added when the novella was met with great success.) Season 2 will cover the remainder of Wool but end, showrunner Graham Yost told TVLine, “in a slightly different way…. There’s a big surprise at the end of the season, and that’s all I’ll say.”
Significant portions of Howey’s second novel, Shift, meanwhile are set hundreds of years prior, back when the W.O.O.L. (World Order Operation Fifty) project that begat the silos first took shape.
“It has been a richly rewarding experience to adapt Hugh’s epic novels with our partners at Apple and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring this complete story to the screen over the course of four seasons,” Yost says in a statement. “With the final two chapters of Silo, we can’t wait to give fans of the show an incredibly satisfying conclusion to the many mysteries and unanswered questions contained within the walls of these silos.”
Says star and EP Ferguson, “I’ve loved every minute of bringing Juliette to the screen and am immensely proud of what we’ve all created with Silo since the first episode…. Alongside our parters at Apple, Graham, and the entire cast and crew, I cannot wait to dive into these final two thought-provoking seasons that will beautifully conclude this dystopian tale.”
In addition to Ferguson, Season 2 brought back Tim Robbins (as Bernard), Common (as Sims), Harriet Walter (as Martha), Chinaza Uche (as Billings), Avi Nash (as Lukas), Alexandria Riley (as Camille Sims), Shane McCrae (as Knox), Remmie Milner (as Shirley), Clare Perkins (as Carla), Billy Postlethwaite (as Hank), Rick Gomez (as Kennedy), Caitlin Zoz (as Kathleen), Tanya Moodie (as Judge Meadows) and Iain Glen (as Dr. Nichols). Steve Zahn, meanwhile, was added as the mysterious Solo.
In the sixth episode of Silo Season 2, dropping this Friday, Bernard enacts a plan to root out Knox, Shirley, and Walker; Billings takes a stand; and Solo saves Juliette’s life (but wants something in return).
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Atleast there is proper ending for the series which is rare these days.
Cool, love this show!
“W.O.O.L. (World Order Operation Fifty)”
I assume that the L there is for a Roman numeral, but WOOF would have been a good name too.
Lets hope Netflix (and the rest) are taking notes on how to properly end a show. You can commit to a show when you know it will have an ending.
I shall now give it a go
Woohoo this is fantastic news! The show isn’t perfect (and the latter books in the series that tries to explain why his world functions the way it does are so ridiculous), but I feel like it’s so well-made and well-performed that I’m really enjoying it all the same. I only wish Invasion on Apple could’ve had better scripts and become a nice companion sci-fi series to Silo…
This is great news
Unless I missed it, the explanation of the WOOL acronym has not been used on the series yet. Might have been better not to reveal that since some people might view it as a spoiler.