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What is it about Steve Zahn that makes the middling into the memorable and the good into the great?
I watched this weeksSilowith my youngest, who is home from college for the holiday break.
She has some success with the latter.
Solo, while wary, wants to talk.
He rocks Juliettes world right off the bat when he tells her there are 50 silos.
Immediately, Juliettes mission changes.
She had no idea how could she?
that her decision not to clean might doom everyone she knows.
Now shes anxious to find another suit, find some good tape, and hustle back home.
To do that, though, shell need Solos help.
So shes back to step one: winning him over.
Hes obviously one of the handful of in-the-know IT people distributed throughout the surviving silos.
And he has access to the books and music that ordinary silo citizens dont.
Did life in the Silo 17 survive for a while after the rebellion?
Or did these visitors come from yetanothersilo?
Solo isnt volunteering any information about that yet.
Once shes convinced him shes a corporeal being who can consume food, she asks a favor.
The materials she needs for her excursion back to her silo are on a flooded level of Silo 17.
Will Solo come out and provide oxygen to her while she navigates through the water?
He takes it all in: the cavernous space, the wreckage.
And we leave the two of them there, for now, sitting on a crumbling walkway.
I look forward to seeing them again next week.
Silo 17 is new.
That old silo next door?
Even with a rebellion brewing, it is comparatively a bit tired.
The locals are pushing back against martial law, defiantly spraying Juliette Lives!
graffiti and demanding the release of people they see as political prisoners.
Theyre also distressingly, but also predictably starting to fracture.
Sims throws his muscle around twice in this episode.
As for Meadows, her request to go out comes with a lot of preparation and settling of affairs.
Among other things, she needs to understand exactly what happened with Juliette.
How did she become so savvy about the silos secrets, like the hidden cameras?
And did Juliette actuallysayshe wanted to go out?
Meadows needs to pin all this down for a couple of reasons.
She also needs to know if Bernard is lying to her.
The answer to that second concern is easy.
Of course Bernards lying.
Its how he controls information, which is how he controls people.
There will be no announcement or ceremony.
The display screens will shut down momentarily.
Can Bernard be trusted?
Shell risk oblivion for a chance at paradise.
A small rebellion, but significant.
Solos song of the week: Red Rain, from Peter Gabriel.
How does this music sound to Juliette?
Can she even wrap her ears around what shes hearing?
Speaking of that stew … did anybody else think Solo had poisoned it?
Especially after he seemed alarmed by how quickly and unquestioningly Juliette ate it?
Or maybe Ive just been watchingSilotoo long.
Ive got trust issues.
