50 Fun Facts About Silo
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Take the 50-question quizOn which streaming service did Silo premiere in May 2023?
The ten-episode first season premiered on May 5, 2023.
Who plays engineer Juliette Nichols?
Critics singled out her performance alongside the show's production design.
How many levels does the silo have?
About 10,000 people live inside it under rules they believe keep them safe.
Roughly how many people live in the silo?
They are bound by the Pact, a list of rules enforced by Judicial.
Which author wrote the novels the series is based on?
He self-published the first Wool story on Kindle in 2011.
What are the three novels in the Silo trilogy?
Shift is a prequel; Dust concludes both story lines.
Who created the television series?
It was his third series at Apple TV+ under his overall deal; he also serves as showrunner.
Who plays Allison Becker in season one?
Her attempts to conceive lead her to question the silo's history and how it is run.
Who plays Sheriff Holston Becker?
Holston is Allison's devoted husband and the silo's sheriff when the story opens.
Which rapper-actor plays Robert Sims, head of security for Judicial?
One critic called him the weak link of the cast while praising everything else.
Tim Robbins plays the strict head of which department?
Bernard Holland's department guards the silo's deepest secrets.
What is Bernard Holland's job?
In the novels he becomes interim mayor automatically under the Pact when Jahns dies.
Martha Walker, Juliette's mentor, suffers from what condition?
Harriet Walter plays the electrical engineer, who rarely leaves her lower-level workshop.
What does Patrick Kennedy used to smuggle?
They are objects from the world before the silo; Rick Gomez plays him.
Deputy Paul Billings is afflicted with which condition?
It causes tremors; Chinaza Uche plays the former Judicial administrator.
Who plays Lukas Kyle, the IT analyst curious about the outside?
In the novels, Bernard grooms Lukas as his successor, unaware of his bond with Juliette.
Who plays Juliette's estranged father, Dr. Pete Nichols?
The obstetrician has been estranged from his daughter since she was a teenager.
Who plays Deputy Sam Marnes in season one?
Marnes works closely with Mayor Jahns and pushes Juliette as a sheriff candidate.
Who plays George Wilkins, the computer geek with a repair shop?
He asks Allison to help him uncover the silo's secrets.
Which actress plays Judge Mary Meadows?
Meadows heads Judicial and enforces the Pact.
What is the Pact?
Judicial enforces it; in the novels it also decides who becomes interim mayor.
Who plays Mayor Ruth Jahns?
In the books Jahns is poisoned on her way back up from the down deep.
What is the name of the armed enforcers working for Sims?
Camille Sims, Robert's wife, is herself a former raider.
Which actor joined the cast for season two, announced at Comic-Con 2024?
The announcement came on July 27, 2024 in San Diego.
Which numbered bunker does Juliette reach after walking out of sensor range?
Its last survivor of an old uprising calls himself Solo.
In the novels, what number is Juliette's home silo?
Silo 1 secretly manages all fifty.
In the books, what is the survivor Solo's real name?
He was the son of Silo 17's IT head when the silo was terminated in 2312.
Ashley Zukerman plays which season-three character?
In the novels the character is Donald Keene, an architect-turned-congressman who designs the silo.
Jessica Henwick plays Helen Drew, who has what job?
She is based in Washington, D.C. in the pre-silo timeline.
Laura Innes plays Senator Rosalind Thurman, overseeing conflict with which country?
In the novels the senator is a man, Paul Thurman, who recruits Donald Keene.
Who plays Per Stensen, the billionaire who funds the silos?
Matt Craven's Victor Crnkovich is meanwhile pioneering a memory-altering drug.
In the novels, what does W.O.O.L. stand for?
The CAD-FAC nuclear-waste project in Georgia was a cover for it.
In the books, how many silos make up the shelter?
Silo 1 cycles its staff through cryogenic stasis to guide the others for centuries.
In the novels, the silos are built in Fulton County in which US state?
The site above them hosts a Democratic National Convention when Atlanta is destroyed.
In the books, the 'gas' Silo 1 releases to terminate a silo is really what?
The procedure is called the Safeguard.
In the novels, which numbered bunker led a cluster of eleven that cut off Silo 1?
Howey has said he is planning another trilogy about it.
In the books, what is the name of the bunker the survivors walk to?
It holds food, materials and plant seeds to rebuild civilisation.
Who is the novels' mastermind behind Operation Fifty who takes his own life?
Erskine, a nanobot engineer, had discovered weaponised nanobots spreading worldwide.
In what year did Howey first publish the short story Wool?
He used Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing rather than a traditional house.
Which publisher gave Howey a print-only deal of about $500,000 for Wool?
He turned down seven-figure offers to keep the e-book rights himself.
Which studio first bought the film rights to Wool in 2012?
Ridley Scott was among the producers attached before Disney's takeover shelved the film.
Which network developed Silo for television before Apple TV+ took it?
LaToya Morgan was attached to write under her AMC Studios deal in 2018.
Who directed and executive produced alongside showrunner Yost?
He had worked with composer Atli Örvarsson on Apple's Defending Jacob.
In which English town was the series filmed?
The Hertfordshire studio's main set is three levels of staircase redressed for different locations.
Which production designer is credited with designing the silo?
The other three names were the cinematographers.
Who composed the music for Silo?
The Icelandic composer had scored Defending Jacob for the same director.
Why was season two filming suspended in July 2023?
It restarted that December and wrapped on March 8, 2024.
At which festival did Silo hold a special screening in April 2023?
The season proper premiered on Apple TV+ three weeks later.
Which season was announced as the show's last?
Apple renewed for seasons three and four together in December 2024.
In which US state was the series' source novelist born and raised?
Before writing he worked as a yacht captain, roofer and bookshop clerk.