"Silo" books and TV series

[Lionel Mandrake]

The "Silo" trilogy by Hugh Howey is being made into the TV Series "Silo", which streams on Apple TV+. I've watched the first season of the TV series and read about a third of "Wool", which is the first book of the trilogy. As far as I can tell, the TV series follows "Wool" pretty closely, but there are some differences. The book of course has many more characters and a more complicated plot. A male character ("Walker" or "Walk" for short) in the book has been replaced by a female character ("Martha Walker" ) in the TV series. Season 2 of the TV series has been filmed but not released, and no release date has been announced.

[Dave Bowman]

1. I just can't wait for season 2 to come out!

[Lionel Mandrake]

7. I'm sorry Dave,

I'm afraid I can't help you with that.

[mn9driver]

2. Season 1 was good.

I haven’t read the books, but looking forward to season 2.

[Lionel Mandrake]

8. Yes it was.

Season two will arrive any year now.

[Pluvious]

3. I listened to the whole trilogy years ago...

It was very captivating

But I found the backstory novel to be very depressing, and it was not as enjoyable

The ending of the third was pretty good, but I had some mixed feelings about it

I look forward to seeing the TV adaptions eventually

Thanks for the update

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. I took a quick look at "Shift" (Volume II)

and found it to be a prequel, i.e., a backstory, to "Wool" (Vol. I). I finished reading "Wool" and want to find out what will happen next to Juliette and the other characters I'm already familiar with. So I am skipping the prequel for now, and starting to read the sequel "Dust" (Vol. III).

[Pluvious]

11. Some people just enjoy dark content...

Just look at all the many popular horror films and books, even "dark comedy"

Describing how the world's population gets culled out, will provide oodles of entertainment for some people's tastes

( shrug )

To each their own, eh

[Bok_Tukalo]

4. "Shift" is my favorite of the trilogy

Excellent books.

[Lionel Mandrake]

9. Interesting ...

Your favorite was the prequel (Volume II), about which Pluvious said:
"I found the backstory novel to be very depressing, and it was not as enjoyable."

After reading "Wool" (Vol. I), I need to find out what will happen next to Juliette and the other characters I'm already familiar with. So I am skipping the prequel for now, and starting to read the sequel "Dust" (Vol. III).

[Bristlecone]

5. I watched it on Apple. Made it all the way through

But just barely. Common, as an actor, is really unwatchable. He is as wooden and forced as it gets IMO. The rest of the cast carried him.

I’m going to try the series out though. I didn’t realize it was a book trilogy.

[Lionel Mandrake]

6. Critic Daniel Fienberg agrees with you.

In a review for the Hollywood Reporter, he wrote:

"Common is, unfortunately, the weak link in the cast. He’s always a particular kind of actor: instantly striking as a presence, generally convincing physically and a strange cipher emotionally — completely at odds with the passion that infuses his music and unscripted persona. His performance here is a great leather jacket — unexplained, since nobody else in the Silo seems to go to the same tailor — and a perpetual smirk. Opposite Robbins’ soft-spoken, pragmatically insinuating nuance and Ferguson’s fiery and perpetual irritation, Common’s lack of inflection leaves the show with a conflict deficit."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/silo-review-rebecca-ferguson-apple-tv-1235479924/