Apple TV’s Silo returns for its anticipated third season — and the season poses more questions than ever

📺 One of Apple TV’s best-kept secrets is back — and it’s been worth the wait. Silo, the acclaimed dystopian sci-fi drama adapted from Hugh Howey’s bestselling trilogy and created by Emmy recipient Graham Yost, returns for its third season after a year-and-a-half absence — one that felt longer given how season two ended.

The plot: Season three picks up months after the explosive finale, with Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) having survived — but at a cost. Now mayor of Silo 18, she’s living with near-total amnesia, unable to remember her friends, her past, or the truth she uncovered outside the silo’s walls. What appears to be a medical condition is, as you’d expect, something far more sinister. Camille Sims (Alexandria Riley) has quietly assumed control of the silo’s IT department, and Robert Sims (Common) has tightened his grip on power.

The season also introduces a parallel timeline set centuries earlier, following journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and young congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) — whose storyline promises to answer the question the show has been circling since episode one: who built the silos and why.

REMEMBER- Silo is set in a dystopian future where the last 10k people on Earth live in a giant underground bunker — 144 levels deep — cut off from a world they’re told is toxic and uninhabitable. The catch, of course, is that those in charge know more than they’re letting on.

What we liked… and didn’t: Some critics found the season’s non-linear opener slow and the time jump disorienting — we’d disagree. The decision not to pick up exactly where season two left off gives the show room to breathe and resets the central mystery in an unsettling direction. The before-times political subplot — following Drew and Keene in a pre-apocalyptic Washington — is the season’s most exciting addition. The premiere is eerie, discomfiting, and compelling.

Our only gripe? More questions than answers — and weekly drops mean the wait between episodes is going to be gruelling.

The verdict: Silo remains one of the smartest dystopian dramas on any platform — grounded enough to feel plausible, strange enough to stay unsettling. Season three is off to a strong start, if you ask us.

WHERE TO WATCH IT- Episodes drop weekly on Apple TV. Watch the trailer on YouTube (watch, runtime: 2:37).