If you thought Silo couldn’t possibly get bigger after that Season 2 finale… buckle up. When Jessica Henwick appeared in the final moments of Season 2, it was clear something massive was coming. Speaking on Collider’s Ladies Night with Perri Nemiroff for her new Netflix limited series Vladimir with Rachel Weisz, Henwick took a few moments to discuss what fans can expect from the next season of Silo. Henwick was able to tease just how dramatic that shift will be — and it sounds like Season 3 might feel like an entirely new show.
Confirming that her storyline takes the series back to its origins — literally — Henwick is giving audiences a glimpse at some major backstory for the post-apocalyptic series. That means taking it out of the silos and into the world before everything went to Hell in a handbasket. She told Collider: “Well, it’s funny, we were just talking about loving the origin stories, the sort of minimized origin stories. That is my storyline in Silo. We’re going back to the beginning, and it is the grounded character, real world. It’s present day. I’m just a journalist. I’m just a journalist following a story.”
Henwick revealed that showrunner Graham Yost wanted viewers to feel disoriented — in a good way. She explained:
“Even from Season 2, that ending scene with us, Graham Yost, our showrunner, said he wanted people to be watching and go, ‘Did I accidentally hit the remote?’ Like, to feel like a different show. It has been interesting tonally, within one episode, how are you matching very grounded, small, real-world story with these heightened emotions in the silo? I think they do a great job, but it’s definitely been a challenge… I actually did have to be like, ‘Okay, what’s the storyline happening with the other characters? What’s the scene before and after me? How am I going to help them lead in from their tone to our tone?’”
It’s a delicate balance — grounded, present-day investigative drama colliding with the emotionally heightened survivalism fans already know. Henwick even compared it to one of TV’s most iconic tonal pivots: “It’s kind of like when Lost got off the island, and you suddenly went, ‘Whoa!’ Like it felt like it had just injected steroids into the show,” she continued. “That’s kind of how it feels on Silo to me.”
What Else Can We Expect From ‘Silo’ Season 3?
Henwick also spoke about working opposite Ashley Zukerman, who plays Daniel in the series’ expanding mythology, and who appeared in that shocker of a Season 2 finale. “He’s a phenomenally talented actor, and we just had such an instant creative connection,” said Henwick. “We were just in the pocket all the time and knew exactly what we wanted out of the scenes and out of the story. It’s hard. I want to tell you examples, but I can’t because they’re really pivotal scenes. But I’m a big fan of his work. I’ve seen a lot of his work, and I think this is some of the best.”
Henwick is currently filming Season 4 — and she didn’t sugarcoat how intense it’s been for her, or the rest of the cast, but she admitted that she was immensely proud of herself for how she’d handled the challenge. She told Collider:
“So, on Silo right now, filming Season 4, the end of the show, it is the most challenged I have ever been as an actor… every scene for two months was 10 on the Richter scale. It was just these huge, seismic emotional shifts, and I thought, ‘I don’t think I’m going to be able to handle it.’ I was really proud I was able to sustain that while also not going method and being a twat, you know? Like, I’m still having the best time. Even when you’re crying, even when you’re screaming, you should still be having a wicked time. I really took that to heart, and I’ve had the best time on Silo.”
Silo streams on Apple TV. Stay tuned for updates on Season 3.
- Release Date
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May 5, 2023
- Showrunner
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Graham Yost