Warning: Reviews of Silo season 1 will contain spoilers.

Before I heap praise on the final two episodes of this first season of Silo, there are some nits I must, unfortunately, pick. For as much as I’ve enjoyed this under-seen series, a few relatively minor issues have come up in the later half of the season. To start, the show’s supporting cast, great as they are, have never really felt as fully formed as Juliette or Sims or Billings. The main thrust of the season has been all about Juliette and her search for the truth, with the occasional glimpse into the home lives of the aforementioned characters, but I would’ve appreciated an episode or a few B-plots that explored Harriet Walter’s Walker or virtually any more information about Avi Nash’s Lukas Kyle. Indeed, I still don’t know much about Lukas, aside from his affection for Juliette and his curiosity about the stars outside.

Now that that’s out of the way, The Getaway and Outside give a strong ending to this season by ratcheting up the action and tension, while raising a host of questions for season two. Juliette spends much of The Getaway on the run from Judicial, trying to get whatever answers she can from George’s hard drive. Touching as it was, George’s video brought up another issue: his girlfriend. When he professes his love for Jules, her old emotions come back to the surface, but the show made a major point to show how much George’s girlfriend negatively affected her. It’s a minor moment in The Getaway, but it took me out of the episode and had me questioning Jules’ headspace. Speaking of George’s lingering threads, what’s become of the Pez dispenser? Will it ever have any meaning beyond something he gave her?

Nevertheless, the ways that Jules managed to outsmart Bernard and Sims by maneuvering through the Silo’s passageways and utilizing all of her connections was thrilling stuff. By the time she’s finally caught in Outside, she’s basically traversed up and down through the entire Silo, including an exciting sequence in the garbage chute. Crucially, she’s able to get an image from the hard drive of the “real outside world” to the entire Silo before she’s captured. It’s enough to show the people that something really is not right with what they’re being told, and provide even a faint spark of rebellion.

It’s an ingenious twist to make the sunny, pre-apocalypse world a lie to those outside, but it raises another world of questions. Why provide that vision at all? Did Halston and his wife actually die in those spots, and how (lack of oxygen, some other external factor, etc.)? Obviously we’ll have to wait for season two for answers, but it certainly looks like there are many, many more Silos than the one we’ve been following this season. So does Juliette go to one of the other Silos, or the city in the distance?

Again, the possibilities are endless for future seasons (I still have not read the books, but certainly hope to before the show comes back, whenever that may be). Much as Lukas has felt like wasted potential, I’d love to see the world of the mines, and who gets sent there. And how much will Juliette’s venture outside affect the Silo at large, and their view of the current authority? Billings still has the page from the Georgia tourism book from earlier in the season, and there’s still enough questions about the Syndrome and how it will eventually affect him. Though I wouldn’t call Silo’s first season perfect, it showed great confidence, and introduced a number of intriguing plot threads, to keep me invested for future seasons. Even when the show strayed from Juliette’s primary objective, it gave plenty of worthwhile moments and introduced a fully developed sci-fi world.

The Getaway Grade: B

Outside Grade: B+

Season One Grade: B+