Silo: The Harmonium Show Only
December 7, 2024 12:04 PM - Season 2, Episode 4 - Subscribe
Juliette sets out on a dangerous quest to retrieve a suit so she can return home and save her silo. Mechanical plans a meeting with Judge Meadows.
Wikipedia summary:
With Solo's help, Juliette builds an air pump system to help her through the flooded levels and collects a firefighter suit. Solo tells Juliette about the outside world from before and struggles with anxiety about leaving the vault. Knox shares with Shirley his belief that their Silo has had multiple rebellions, which were blamed on Mechanical because of their ability to shut down the Silo. He also requests to speak with Meadows, who agrees to meet. Sims becomes suspicious of Bernard's relationship with Meadows and fabricates a movement to demand Meadows' impeachment. Meadows allows Lukas to protest his sentence and after their conversation reduces it to five years. Billings investigates the riot in Mechanical and learns that the body of the instigator has disappeared, and Judicial has claimed Cooper's body. Bernard poisons Meadows, and before she dies she tells him that on the hard drive Juliette stole, there's a coded letter from Salvador Quinn, who was head of IT during the rebellion 140 years ago. Knox, Shirley, Walker, and Carla arrive at Judicial, where Bernard has set up Meadows' body to frame Knox and Shirley for her murder. Sims riles up a crowd and sends it after them.
Wikipedia summary:
With Solo's help, Juliette builds an air pump system to help her through the flooded levels and collects a firefighter suit. Solo tells Juliette about the outside world from before and struggles with anxiety about leaving the vault. Knox shares with Shirley his belief that their Silo has had multiple rebellions, which were blamed on Mechanical because of their ability to shut down the Silo. He also requests to speak with Meadows, who agrees to meet. Sims becomes suspicious of Bernard's relationship with Meadows and fabricates a movement to demand Meadows' impeachment. Meadows allows Lukas to protest his sentence and after their conversation reduces it to five years. Billings investigates the riot in Mechanical and learns that the body of the instigator has disappeared, and Judicial has claimed Cooper's body. Bernard poisons Meadows, and before she dies she tells him that on the hard drive Juliette stole, there's a coded letter from Salvador Quinn, who was head of IT during the rebellion 140 years ago. Knox, Shirley, Walker, and Carla arrive at Judicial, where Bernard has set up Meadows' body to frame Knox and Shirley for her murder. Sims riles up a crowd and sends it after them.
As much as I'm still enjoying it, every time they bring back some plot line from the first season I'm a little reminded of how much it feels like the story has narrowed down to "Juliette needs to get back before her Silo marches out into the hellscape too".
posted by Kyol at 10:37 PM on December 7 [1 favorite]
posted by Kyol at 10:37 PM on December 7 [1 favorite]
My partner and I joke about how often each episode, Juliet nearly dies, seems about to escape, nope nearly dying, nearly dying, really nearly dying, oh hooray she made it! whew (/s they're not going to kill her... she's the star)
posted by kokaku at 11:43 AM on December 8 [1 favorite]
posted by kokaku at 11:43 AM on December 8 [1 favorite]
I love Steve Zahn in pretty much anything, but I really like him as Solo and with Juliet. On the other hand, I am super mad that the judge is gone. I loved her voice.
posted by gladly at 7:18 PM on December 8 [4 favorites]
posted by gladly at 7:18 PM on December 8 [4 favorites]
Mechanical: we can't trust the uppers, they always blame mechanical when there's a rebellion
Also mechanical: sure Mr Mayor, we'll trust you to take us to a private location with no other witnesses to meet the Judge
posted by DowBits at 8:17 PM on December 8 [1 favorite]
Also mechanical: sure Mr Mayor, we'll trust you to take us to a private location with no other witnesses to meet the Judge
posted by DowBits at 8:17 PM on December 8 [1 favorite]
And I'm not entirely clear on how that's supposed to work anyway. So the uppers get cranky with mechanical, mechanical turns off the lights, you'd think the uppers would storm mechanical rather than the other way around.
I suppose there's some infinite engine turbine thing going on with the power plant and shutting it down for too long will end up killing mechanical first due to the flooding or whatever. But, like, think 3 steps ahead and bring another red ball for "we're running, we've been framed, fuck fuck fuck fuck"....
posted by Kyol at 6:40 AM on December 9 [2 favorites]
I suppose there's some infinite engine turbine thing going on with the power plant and shutting it down for too long will end up killing mechanical first due to the flooding or whatever. But, like, think 3 steps ahead and bring another red ball for "we're running, we've been framed, fuck fuck fuck fuck"....
posted by Kyol at 6:40 AM on December 9 [2 favorites]
I suppose there's some infinite engine turbine thing going on with the power plant and shutting it down for too long will end up killing mechanical first due to the flooding or whatever. But, like, think 3 steps ahead and bring another red ball for "we're running, we've been framed, fuck fuck fuck fuck"....
Gah, I kept thinking surely they brought another red ball, right? If they're worried enough to think through the ball system in the first place, they'd bring a second red ball, right? Right?!
One of the biggest issues through everything happening this season is that it was clear that the Judge is the more capable person to handling the unrest after Juliette skipped her way over the ridge and out of sight. Bernard's ideas aren't terrible, but then Sims decides to go "extra" and makes things worse. It feels like the deputies are out numbered by the raiders, so if Billings determines that Bernard and Sims are up to no good, he couldn't leverage the sheriff's department against them. Granted, Silo 17 was clearly being lead by their sheriff, and I wonder if the writers aren't working to mirror that in Silo 18. The only difference being that Juliette will appear to stop the ill-fated charge to the top.
I am definitely going to miss Tanya Moodie's Judge Walker. The moment when she opened up to Lukas about astronomy was beautiful, like she came alive with the opportunity to share her love and enthusiasm for the world outside the Silo. I don't know if it was a kindness or not to share that with him, before sending him off to the mines. How many miners are there mining away because of some legal infraction? She thought Lukas wouldn't survive a year, which, if true, presents almost gulag like conditions for the miners. (Me, waiting for Lucas to accidentally discover a mine opened up by another silo later in the show.) Bernard's end of life gift to Walker, a VR jungle experience was touching. His guidance to her on what to see and what she was seeing also spoke to the dynamic that those in power still embraced everything they vowed to be against, i.e., illegal artifacts.
In that vein, it was really enjoyable to hear Solo describing a circus to Juliette, as it came across virtually fantastical while Juliette, working away, is going, "uh huh, uh huh, uh huh...." I was successfully stressed about what would happen if Solo was locked out of his vault, and likewise, was somewhat expecting him to abandon the bellows out of his fear of being away from his safe space. The conflict I'm now waiting for is if Solo will let her leave or not. I can't see Bernard allowing Solo to join Silo 18, he's too much of a x-factor in his knowledge of forbidden things and so on (and, well, we know at the moment, there's only one suit to go outside in).
My partner and I joke about how often each episode, Juliet nearly dies, seems about to escape, nope nearly dying, nearly dying, really nearly dying, oh hooray she made it! whew (/s they're not going to kill her... she's the star)
Juliet is the walking embodiment of a Timex watch, she takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. Plot (leading star) armor is a helluva thing.
posted by Atreides at 8:08 AM on December 9
Gah, I kept thinking surely they brought another red ball, right? If they're worried enough to think through the ball system in the first place, they'd bring a second red ball, right? Right?!
One of the biggest issues through everything happening this season is that it was clear that the Judge is the more capable person to handling the unrest after Juliette skipped her way over the ridge and out of sight. Bernard's ideas aren't terrible, but then Sims decides to go "extra" and makes things worse. It feels like the deputies are out numbered by the raiders, so if Billings determines that Bernard and Sims are up to no good, he couldn't leverage the sheriff's department against them. Granted, Silo 17 was clearly being lead by their sheriff, and I wonder if the writers aren't working to mirror that in Silo 18. The only difference being that Juliette will appear to stop the ill-fated charge to the top.
I am definitely going to miss Tanya Moodie's Judge Walker. The moment when she opened up to Lukas about astronomy was beautiful, like she came alive with the opportunity to share her love and enthusiasm for the world outside the Silo. I don't know if it was a kindness or not to share that with him, before sending him off to the mines. How many miners are there mining away because of some legal infraction? She thought Lukas wouldn't survive a year, which, if true, presents almost gulag like conditions for the miners. (Me, waiting for Lucas to accidentally discover a mine opened up by another silo later in the show.) Bernard's end of life gift to Walker, a VR jungle experience was touching. His guidance to her on what to see and what she was seeing also spoke to the dynamic that those in power still embraced everything they vowed to be against, i.e., illegal artifacts.
In that vein, it was really enjoyable to hear Solo describing a circus to Juliette, as it came across virtually fantastical while Juliette, working away, is going, "uh huh, uh huh, uh huh...." I was successfully stressed about what would happen if Solo was locked out of his vault, and likewise, was somewhat expecting him to abandon the bellows out of his fear of being away from his safe space. The conflict I'm now waiting for is if Solo will let her leave or not. I can't see Bernard allowing Solo to join Silo 18, he's too much of a x-factor in his knowledge of forbidden things and so on (and, well, we know at the moment, there's only one suit to go outside in).
My partner and I joke about how often each episode, Juliet nearly dies, seems about to escape, nope nearly dying, nearly dying, really nearly dying, oh hooray she made it! whew (/s they're not going to kill her... she's the star)
Juliet is the walking embodiment of a Timex watch, she takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. Plot (leading star) armor is a helluva thing.
posted by Atreides at 8:08 AM on December 9
I was successfully stressed about what would happen if Solo was locked out of his vault
Yeah, I joked with my wife that he had to get back in to the vault to enter 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 on a keypad.
posted by Kyol at 8:57 AM on December 9 [4 favorites]
Yeah, I joked with my wife that he had to get back in to the vault to enter 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 on a keypad.
posted by Kyol at 8:57 AM on December 9 [4 favorites]
I'm struggling with this show but Tanya Moodie has been a bright spot in every episode she's. Good writing, great acting. Welp....
posted by Nelson at 5:20 PM on December 13 [1 favorite]
posted by Nelson at 5:20 PM on December 13 [1 favorite]
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