Yahoo Lifestyle Silo Boss Graham Yost on Season 2 Finale’s Wild Ending, PEZ Dispenser Shocker: ‘We’re All Chasing the Hatch From Lost’
The following contains spoilers from the Silo Season 2 finale, now streaming on Apple TV+.
Silo Season 2 ended with visual confirmation, for the rebelling denizens of Silo 18, that former sheriff Juliette Nichols indeed had survived being “sent out.”
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Viewers of course knew that Juliette (played by Rebecca Ferguson) had not only made it over the hill surveyed by the exterior camera lens, but trekked to the neighboring Silo 17. Upon first arriving there, Juliette stepped over scored of decayed bodies, belonging to those who had decades ago launched their own, misguided “It’s fine outside!” rebellion. Once inside, she discovered Solo (played by Steve Zahn), a grown man who’d been holed up in an IT vault since childhood, as well as a small band of youths who were not too kind to strangers.
Back in Silo 18, Juliette’s friends in Mechanical held onto the possibility that she was still alive — especially when Bernard’s newly minuted shadow, Lukas (Avi Nash), arrived in the down deep at season’s end with sensitive intel indicating as much.
But in WOOL, the first novel in Hugh Howey’s Silo trilogy — BOOK SPOILER AHEAD! — Lukas was privy to his crush’s fate much longer than that. In fact, in the first Silo novel he was in intermittent contact with Juliette, via a secret communication system between the 50 silos, for much of her time in Silo 17.
Silo showrunner Graham Yost says that because Season 1 had made a much bigger deal than WOOL did of Juliette’s star-crossed romance with George, he and his writers chose to play it slow with the Juliette/Lukas connection.
“We needed to pace it out in a different way,” he explains. “Because we made so much about the mystery of what happened to George, and George became a real character in Season 1, we couldn’t have Juliette jumping emotionally into another relationship that fast.” Rather, “We needed to pay deference to that ‘original sin,’ because George’s death is what engaged Juliette and leads her on her course of action.”
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Plus, by eliminating Juliette’s intimacy-building radio chats with Lukas, it further emphasized how frighteningly alone she was in Silo 17 with nutty-ass Solo.
“We really didn’t want any contact between the silos, because we didn’t want anyone in Silo 18 knowing she was still alive,” Yost explains. “We wanted her coming over the hill at the end of the finale to be like, ‘That ends the rebellion!’ and changes everything. That is the real paradigm shift.”
Alas, Juliette arrived at her home silo with only a note that read “NOT SAFE DO NOT COME OUT,” to wave in front of the freshly cleaned camera lens — when maybe she should have also had Eater Hope make one that said, “HEY, CAN SOMEONE PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR?” As a result, she and a crowbar had to wrestle with the entry ramp’s large metal door for a bit. And once she finally got through, she ran into a suited-up, gun-toting, suicidal Bernard. A scuffle ensued, with the arch enemies both ending up trapped in the fire-cleansing chamber.
Yost is mum on how that part of the finale shakes out in Season 3.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
Silo Season 2 did not end with that cliffhanger, however. Instead, we got a “bonus sequence” set in contemporary Washington, D.C., where Congressman Daniel Keene (played by Designated Survivor‘s Ashley Zukerman) meets up with a journalist named Helen (Iron Fist‘s Jessica Henwick).
The two obliquely talk of a “dirty bomb” and whether Daniel knew “anyone who was affected.” Helen then cuts to the chase on the nature of their non-“date,” saying, “I think the people you work for,” meaning his constituents and not shadowy D.C. types, “need to know if there are plans to strike back against Iran, whether or not there was a radiological weapon attack against the United States.”
Daniel, suddenly uneasy, said, “I better go,” slipped on his coat and left — but not before giving Helen something he “panic-bought at convenience store” on his way over….
A duck-head Pez dispenser.
And yes, showrunner Yost confirms, “That is the PEZ dispenser” — the same relic that George gave to Juliette in Season 1’s romantic flashbacks.
“You see this PEZ dispenser in our world, and it’s going to end up in a silo, 300 years in the future,” Yost notes. “How the hell did that happen?”
Ending with that jarring and provocative flashback was in keeping with how Season 1 left viewers, Yost says.
“We thought long and hard about how to end the season — there was one talk about ending in the airlock with the fire — but this is not a ‘peril cliffhanger’ show. We don’t go out with a gun to someone’s head or that sort of thing,” the EP says. “[The ending of] Season 1 is, ‘Holy s–t, there’s many more than one silo! Where’s she going, and what’s going to happen to her?’ And Season 2 is like, ‘Oh, I think we’re going to find out how this whole thing started.’
“Those of us of a certain generation, the hatch at the end of Season 1 of Lost is one of the greatest moments in television history,” Yost points out. “And we’re all chasing the hatch.”
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