Silo
Warning ! This article contains spoilers for Silo time of year 2 .
Apple TV+‘sSilohas kept many element of its timeline a mystery , but its 2nd season drops enough clues to help TV audience piece together a calendar of key events . principally based onHugh Howey ’s firstSilobook , Wool , Silo ’s seasons 1 and 2 intentionally avoid revealing too much about the outside world and what chance to it before humankind were forced to experience inside the fundamental silo . Season 2 deepens the overarching lore by exploring the history of another neighboring silo while sum up a few new character reference to the intermixture .
While this geographic expedition adds many new layers to the show ’s narrative , it makes its timeline even more perplexing . AlthoughSiloseason 2 does an incredible task of get viewer more gift in its storytelling , it avoids establish away any explicit details about the year it is set in . Owing to this , it is hard not to focus on several little development throughout theApple TV+ sci - fi show ’s first two time of year and deduce when exactly its events take place .
Timeline
Event
352 years after the Silos ' construction
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Juliette ’s present Silo timeline
140 year before the present timeline
Silo 18 ’s last rising
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Over 30 years before the present timeline
Silo 17 ’s insurrection & the outset of Solo ’s journey in the burial vault
Sometime after 2018
The world terminate & humans took refuge in the silo
Over 352 years before the present timeline
A Congressman suffer Helen in a barroom inSiloseason 2 ’s ending flashback
Solo’s Timeline Reveals When Silo 17’s Rebellion Took Place
He Was In His Vault For Decades
Almost throughout its runtime , Siloseason 2 maintains an aura of ambiguity surrounding Solo ’s timeline and backstory . Every clip Juliette attempts to apprehend into Solo ’s yesteryear , the Steve Zahn character either change the matter or tries to distract her . However , towards theend ofSiloseason 2 , Juliette finally colligate the point and realizes that Solo was barely 11 or 12 years honest-to-goodness when Silo 17 ’s rebellion withdraw place . She recall him reminiscing about sitting beside a lady friend in a Level B classroom and finds his name , Jimmy Conroy , written on a workbench .
Since Silo time of year 2 only covers the first book in the Hugh Howey trilogy , many viewers may be curious about what happens next in the fictional story .
The fact that Solo was just a teenager when the insurrection ensued substantiate thata fiddling over three decades have pass on in the show ’s timeline since Silo 17 ’s citizen step out . In appearance , Solo well looks like he is above 40 , suggesting he has spent more than 30 years in the burial vault . The fact that Silo 17 ’s teenage characters like Hope , Rick , and Audrey were not even born when the rebellion happened and even their parents were small fry during its events corroborate it happened over 3 decade before the show ’s present timeline .
Bernard Has Confirmed When The Silos Were Built
It Has Been Centuries Since They Were Built
Moments after Bernard gives Lukas access to thevault inSiloseason 2 , he reveals that the information database in the mysterious room only ply limited entropy on the silos . The Head of IT also confirmsthe Silos were work up 352 years before the present timeline . This highlight how many generation of humans have hold out in the silos , and the world has remain seemingly unoccupied by humans for at least three century . return how seasons 1 and 2 mean that humans can still not step out without sealed suits , it is laborious not to wonder what might have happened to the external earthly concern to make it uninhabitable for so long .
Silo 18’s Last Rebellion’s Salvador Quinn Connection Confirms Its Timeline
Provisions Were Made To Ensure No One Remembered The Rebellion
Siloseason 2 also confirms that Salvador Quinn was the cloak-and-dagger structure ’s mayor 140 class before the present timeline . Since the last rebellion in Silo 18 happened during Quinn ’s rule , and he take extreme planning , like wiping everyone ’s retention and glow evidence of the before - times , it would be logical to say thatSilo 18 did not experience any major uprisings for almost 140 geezerhood after Quinn ’s rule . Given how the silos were produce 352 year before the present case , Quinn became Silo 18 ’s leading figure roughly 200 years after they were build .
Siloseason 2 ’s ending roughly aligns with the closing electric arc ofHugh Howey ’s firstSilobook , Wool .
As the show confirm , almost every generation before Quinn ’s rule begin a uprising in Silo 18 . However , to break the cycle and prevent history from repeating , Quinn not only destroy all grounds of the creation of former rebellions but also gradually made Silo 18 ’s masses blank out about their past times by adding a storage - erasing drug to the pee supply . This would excuse why hoi polloi from the silo hardly get laid anything about what materialize before the last rebellion .
One Silo Season 2 Clue Gives Away The Year Of The Present Timeline
The Clue Suggests The Show Changes The Books’ Timeline
Moments beforeMeadows dies inSiloseason 2 , she inquire Bernard if she can go outside and experience exemption for a few momentaneous second . Although Bernard is forced to traverse her request , he point her the extraneous humans through a VR headset . Interestingly , as Bernard guide her through her VR experience , the subtitle bring up him saying , “ Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve , 2018 . " This little particular on the face of it confirm that the world was far from being a wasteland in 2018 , and the apocalypse was yet to happen .
In the source material , the silo ' construction gets completed in 2052 while the present timeline unfolds in 2345 .
Although the genuine timeline of the world - ending consequence remains unknown , it would be fair to assume that the construction of the show ’s silos was in tandem with the real world ’s present year . If the world was doing fine in 2018 , the silo were belike built somewhere in the 2020s . Given how 352 years have passed since the building of the silo in the show , the present year in the series should well be beyond 2370 . This makes Apple TV+‘sSilosignificantly dissimilar from Hugh Howey ’s Holy Writ . In the source fabric , the silos ' building gets complete in 2052 while the present timeline unfolds in 2345 .
The Timeline Of Silo Season 2’s Ending Flashback Explained
The Flashback Unfolds In The “Before Times”
Siloseason 2 ends with an challenging flashbackthat features an fundamental interaction between a Congressman and a diary keeper named Helen . Although the timeline of this flashback remains unknown , its visuals intimate it coordinate with the real world , possibly unfold somewhere in the 2020s . Considering how Bernard confirms the silos were work up 352 years before the show ’s present timeline , the flashback seemingly encounter over 352 age before Bernard ’s formula in Silo 18 .
Silo Key fact Breakdown
Created By
Graham Yost
Rotten Tomatoes Critics ' Score
92 %
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score
64 %
found On
Hugh HoweySiloseries that includes three books : Wool , Shift , & Dust
Interestingly , the Congressman gifts the same duck Pez dispenser to Helen that Juliette later acquires fromGeorge Wilkins inSiloseason 1 . This could mean that Helen eventually became one of the first - generation occupier of Silo 18 and pass down the dispenser as a symbolisation of hope and rebellion against the silo ' tyrannical organisation . She could be one of the first few Flamekeepers of Silo 18 , and , as theSiloseason 2 flashback intimate , she might have also been Wilkins ' ascendant .
In a dystopian future , men and womanhood repose in a Brobdingnagian underground silo govern by strict regulations , believed to shield them from the risky world above . The series dig into the complex societal Holy Order within the silo and the mysteries environ their ulterior existence .
