The Box Set: "Silo, Season 2."

Deconstructing Ep. 1, "The Engineer."

It was thrilling to fall back into a TV series where the world has been built so deftly, the unanswered questions plentiful, the directions it can veer off into numerous. The cloistered life of “Silo” as it moves into S2 almost immediately reaffirmed why this was a good choice to get back into this feature, up to the natural fit/frustration of the once a week episode drop.

I could feel the anticipation in the lengthy recap (always necessary, I think, as a new season emerges) and in the waste-no-time decision that series creator (and writer of this episode) Graham Yost started on. We were all back, underground, in the world that novelist Hugh Howey created for his Silo series of books, about to surface with Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson).

It was a long off-season in the waiting.

Which is the perfect place to start with the one minor quibble I had, before moving on to the relatively straightforward but exciting first episode.