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Silo.
it's good.
Script-wise it is struggling in some places, as many sci-fi shows making stuff happen is more expensive than just having people talk. But the performances are great.
The source material isn't great. Interesting concept but painful execution at times. The three novels (Wool, Shift, and Dust) read like YA. I stubbornly read my way through them during pandemic but it was rough going and I ended up donating them to my library because I knew I'd never want to read them again.
I've watched the first two seasons of the show, and I think they're doing a reasonably good job given how mediocre the novels are. Pacing and characters making dumb decisions are both problems, but they were problems in the books too.
One of my pet peeves with the show is that some of the actors had a different accent (like Juliette and her dad), which doesn’t make sense at all. With such a small colony that lived close together for hundreds of years everyone should talk with similar accents or at most a different accent per social class. Like Common’s accent sticks out like a sore thumb, they could’ve at least shown a couple of more people from the floors he grew up in and have them speak like him to ground his accent in the world.
A - it's a science fiction TV show, suspending your disbelief is part of consuming any fictional content
B - places in UK have difference accents over small geographic distances, a vertically built society with limitations on movement could reasonably lead to accent variations across the floors
I get where you’re coming from, especially when it comes to immediate family such as Juliette and her father; but given the strict societal heirarchy of the Silo - it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a drastic shift in accents depending on high high you ascend.
Like, the wealthier and more affluent levels on top would put on an almost Transatlantic accent to intentionally differentiate themselves from the riff-raff below.
Just consider of the width and breadth of English accents, given that it would be much easier to travel between English cities now, than ascending 100 levels of the Silo in the show.
Didn't Juliette grow up down in maintenance? It might have been long enough to develop a slight different accent...