“Silo” is certainly one of Apple TV’s most underrated sci-fi sequence. The small display screen adaptation of Hugh Howey’s novel trilogy of the identical identify has a compelling thriller and impeccable worldbuilding. And with its story specializing in individuals being trapped in remoted places beneath mysterious circumstances (all whereas these in energy maintain the true historical past of the world a secret), it even appears like a live-action “Assault on Titan” TV present at occasions.
Throughout its first two seasons, “Silo” created a lived-in, tactile setting filled with memorable characters. It made the present compelling to look at even with out its central mysteries, including layers of that means to its thriller field plotting. Season 2 additionally ended on an enormous cliffhanger, and never only for the individuals of the titular silo, whose lives could also be in imminent hazard. No, the massive reveal got here on the very finish, when “Silo” jumped again to the earlier than occasions previous to the tip of the world. At this level, which appears to be like quite a bit like our personal present actuality, Iran has seemingly simply detonated a unclean bomb on U.S. soil.
From there, we adopted a journalist named Helen Drew as she questioned a younger congressman as as to whether the U.S. will retaliate in opposition to Iran. Reduce to Season 3, and Helen is now a part of the present’s foremost ensemble, with Season 3 splitting its consideration between the previous and current. As for Helen? There is a purpose she most likely appears to be like acquainted.
Certainly, “Silo” is a present filled with nice actors, together with Rebecca Ferguson, Widespread, Tim Robbins, and the scene-stealing Steve Zahn. As for Helen? She’s performed by Jessica Henwick, who bought her begin on TV in 2010 on the fantasy sequence “Spirit Warriors” earlier than scoring her huge break in 2015 with roles in “Sport of Thrones” and “Star Wars: The Drive Awakens.”
Jessica Henwick has been in some big tasks in addition to Silo
Jessica Henwick has amassed some spectacular credit in a reasonably brief period of time. For starters, she appeared on “Sport of Thrones” as Nymeria Sand, i.e. one of many illegitimate daughters of Pedro Pascal’s Prince Oberyn Martell, higher often called the Sand Snakes. Granted, that storyline wound up spelling hassle for “Sport of Thrones,” however that actually wasn’t Henwick’s doing.
From there, Henwick joined Marvel’s Netflix-verse because the martial artist Colleen Wing in “Iron Fist,” a task she reprised for “Luke Cage” and “The Defenders” as effectively. She additionally has expertise in voice appearing, having lent her vocals to each “Blood of Zeus” (an outstanding fantasy present primarily based on Greek mythology) and the anime “Blade Runner: Black Lotus.”
Elsewhere, Henwick has tackled roles each huge and small on the film entrance. Her first credited function was Jessika “Testor” Pava in “The Drive Awakens,” one of many Resistance pilots that flies with Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron. She additionally appeared in “Underwater” (the 2020 Kristen Stewart film that begins out as a easy survival horror thriller earlier than changing into an precise Lovecraftian nightmare) and the criminally underrated monster journey movie “Love and Monsters” starring Dylan O’Brien (which got here out throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns). And let’s not overlook Henwick’s flip in “The Matrix Resurrections” as Bugs, the movie’s deuteragonist and the one that’s been searching for Neo (Keanu Reeves) when the film begins.
Extra just lately, Henwick starred in Netflix’s restricted sequence “Vladimir” and had a small function in the under-seen Glen Powell automobile turned HBO Max hit “The way to Make a Killing.” Suffice it to say, between all of that and “Silo,” her profession goes fairly swimmingly in the intervening time.
New episodes of “Silo” premiere Fridays on Apple TV.
