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2. Silo

Speaking of underrated sci-fi shows on Apple TV+, Silo is another series that deserves a much wider audience than it got during its first season. Sure, it was technically one of Apple’s biggest streaming hits yet, but in the age of cable it probably would have had a much broader reach. If you like mysterious science fiction stories like Lost, then Silo is well worth a watch.

Silo takes place in an enormous underground bunker where the last 10,000 people live following a global apocalypse that wiped out most of the human race. Humanity has been living in the silo for upwards of 200 years, long enough that no one remembers the exact details of how they ended up there in the first place. There’s one huge rule in the silo: if you say you want to leave, you are put outside into the radioactive waste. No one has ever survived the exile.

Things aren’t quite what they seem, though. Silo stars Dune veteran Rebecca Ferguson as Juliette Nichols, an engineer who is thrust into the role of sheriff and begins unraveling the deeper mysteries of the place. It’s got secrets on top of secrets, with society-wide ramifications for the people who live there. The show carefully peels back the layers in a way that makes it hard to stop watching.

Silo is based on a book series of the same name by Hugh Howey, which began with his breakout novel Wool. The first season ended on a huge cliffhanger, and there’s still plenty more to go. Silo has already been renewed for a second season, but it’ll need more than that to tell the full story. Commit for the long haul, Apple TV+! – Daniel Roman