Hugh Howey’s Silo series finally comes Apple TV+

I adored the Silo series of books by Hugh Howey and it is now, finally, coming to an Apple TV screen near you on the 5th of May.

I say ‘finally’ because I remember reading Wool, the first book in the series, in early 2013. I loved it, and so was excited when, soon after, I learned that Ridley Scott had bought film rights. This was followed by ten years of nothing happening.

While waiting Hugh Howey wrote the other two books in the Silo series – Shift (book two), and Dust (book three). All of which were brilliant. I then forgot about the whole Silo series until today when a trailer popped up in my newsfeeds.

What is the Silo series all about?

It is hard to write about the stories without giving too much away. So I will use Apple TV’s description instead.

Silo is the story of the last 10,000 people on earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. However, no one knows when or why the silo was built and any who try to find out face fatal consequences. [Dune’s Rebecca] Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer, who seeks answers about a loved one’s murder and tumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined.

In addition to Ferguson,  Silo features Common, Harriet Walter, Iain Glen, Ferdinand Kingsley, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, David Oyelowo, Rashida Jones, and Tim Robbins.

If you haven’t read the Silo books, I highly recommend them and you can read my review of book one here. They are good science fiction with a lot of twists and some great ideas. They aren’t particularly cheerful, but I guess that’s to be expected given the whole post-apocalypse with humanity stuck in miserable silos premise.

Hugh Howey’s other work is also well worth checking out. (I enjoyed Sand as well.)

The first two episodes drop Apple TV+ on the 5th of May. In the meantime, feast your eyes on the trailer: