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The following contains a spoiler for Hugh Howey’s second “Silo” novel Shift, on which Season 3 of Apple TV+’s Silo series will be based.
If you are familiar with novelist Hugh Howey’s “Silo” trilogy on which Apple TV+’s dystopian drama is based, you may have questions about how much series front woman Rebecca Ferguson will appear in Season 3. Well, TVLine has the straight answer, courtesy of Silo showrunner Graham Yost.
Silo Season 1 introduced us to what was presented as “the last 10,000 people on Earth,” who live in a mile-deep silo that is protecting them from a toxic world outside. Mission: Impossible franchise badass Ferguson stars as Juliette Nichols, an engineer-turned-sheriff who in Season 1 aimed to unravel the mystery behind the underground civilization, and uncover possible deceptions laid before its citizens.
Season 1 covered not even half of Howey’s first book, titled WOOL. (Howey’s first, self-published take on the Silo world represents only the first 48 pages of WOOL; the other 500 pages, starting with Juliette’s introduction, were added when the initial novella was met with great success.)
Season 2, which has been rolling out on Apple TV+ since Nov. 15, covers the remainder of WOOL, with several deviations from the source material. In fact, the season ends this Friday, Jan. 17, “in a slightly different way” than Howey’s first novel does, showrunner Yost told TVLine. Namely, “There’s a big surprise at the end of the season — and that’s all I’ll say.” (Ed. Note: TVLine can confirm the surprise is big.)
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Book spoiler alert! Huge portions of Howey’s second novel, Shift (which was published in 2013, two years after WOOL), are set some 300 years prior, back when W.O.O.L. (World Order Operation Fifty), the project that begat the silos, first took shape. As such, Juliette and her continuing post-apocalyptic journey are far less prominent — to a degree that, if the TV series was 100% faithful to Shift, Ferguson’s role would be far from a starring one.
Fortunately for those who tune into Silo for Ferguson, showrunner Yost found a way to amp up Juliette’s Season 3 role.
“In the book Shift, Juliette doesn’t appear until like the last page, right? It’s about this silo [No. 18], but it’s also the origin story of the whole silo project,” Yost acknowledged when speaking with TVLine in August, ahead of the show’s two-season renewal. But for the Apple TV+ adaptation, “I would say that we have Rebecca Ferguson playing Juliette, and she is not just going to be in the last scene of the season.”
Rather, “Juliette would be a big part” of Season 3, Yost assured.
The final book in Howey’s Silo trilogy, Dust — which presumably will be the foundation for the Apple TV+ series’ fourth/final season — features Juliette in a greater capacity, as it brings the saga to a close.
Ferguson — who is also an executive producer on Silo — hinted at her continued involvement with Silo at the time the series was renewed for a third, plus a final, season.
“I’ve loved every minute of bringing Juliette to the screen and am immensely proud of what we’ve all created with Silo since the first episode,” she said. “I cannot wait to dive into these final two thought-provoking seasons that will beautifully conclude this dystopian tale.”
Apple TV+’s Silo releases its Season 2 finale this Friday, Jan. 17.
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