![]() Martin situation they won’t run out of pages to adapt and have to wing it. She’s quickly at odds with leaders from the Silo’s two other main power centers: the imposing Sims, from the judicial branch (Common, glowering) and Bernard, the conniving tech leader (Tim Robbins, glowering even harder). Juliette suspects murder-and a sheriff’s badge means she can investigate. Her boyfriend, a curious type, went searching for ~ answers ~ about the Silo’s true nature and wound up dead. She loves machines! She has a wise old lady friend! But, you see-a mystery needs unraveling. Juliette doesn’t want to leave her sooty home and her cherished generator. (My only complaint about her performance is the accent work-despite spending her whole life in a North American underground city, Juliette sometimes sounds oddly Scandinavian.) Corpses of former cleaners dot the decrepit landscape.Īfter the second episode, the show’s true protagonist emerges: Rebecca Ferguson’s gruff, capable mechanic, Juliette Nichols, who gets recruited from a life of grunt work in the lower levels to join the law enforcement team “up top.” Ferguson gives an action-star turn here, magnetic and lithe. These “cleanings” are a communal ritual-a type of public execution-and people gather to watch their doomed neighbors succumb to the toxic air. People who go outside are equipped with a sort of hazmat suit and given a piece of wool to “clean.” They are asked to wipe the sensor on the camera that provides the silo with its only view to the outside. ![]()
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