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Thursday 4 May 2023

Apple TV+’s ‘Silo’ is a look at a future of life underground

By MARK KENNEDY bad and society tames
AP Entertainment Writer them.
NEW YORK (AP) — Dystopi- The people inside the silo
an storytelling goes under- are told that outside has
ground this month with the become a wasteland and
arrival of Apple TV+’s “Silo,” so they’ve formed a sys-
a gripping, ambitious tale tem of government that
of Earth’s last population can charitably called a soft
living far below the surface. dictatorship, like East Ger-
Something terrible has hap- many in the 1980s. Anyone
pened to make the envi- questioning the system is
ronment toxic so 10,000 expelled sent out into what
people are hiding out in a seems to be a wasteland
massive, mile-deep under- where everyone inside
ground silo until it’s safe to watches them crumple
come out. They grow food, and die within minutes. Or
maintain a huge generator do they?
for power and recycle ev- “While life in the silo isn’t ter-
erything. rible, it’s not great. There’s
But there’s also a sense of something wrong and that
dread down here, too, and battle between the truth
secrets, mysteries and suspi- and order is something that
cious murders. What exact- This image released by Apple TV+ shows Rebecca Ferguson in a scene from “Silo,” premiering will play out over the whole
ly happened to the Earth? May 5. series,” says Yost.
What is this talk about a Associated Press There have been previous
rebellion 140 years ago? independence, obstreper- have to evolve and survive, slowly reveals itself. There attempts to get Howey’s
Where are all the books? ousness all those nasty hu- what would happen? It’s are familiar things tattoo books onto the big screen,
Can we trust what the gov- man things. And you also sort of ‘Lord of the Flies’- artists, cops complaining but Yost thinks a 10-hour TV
ernment is saying? get the sense that that’s meets-Greta Thunberg- about paperwork and ice series is the best, including
“Life in the silo in many ways not going to succeed.” meets-the people who trays but also some differ- echoing the book by hav-
is pretty good. They’re part One of those rebelling is question the status quo. It’ll ent notes. Coins are square, ing Juliette only show up in
of this cause, which is basi- the 10-part series’ heroine, be chaos,” says the actor, suicide is a crime, and no the last few minutes of the
cally just to stay alive until a woman named Juliette, know for “Dune” and the one knows what a Pez dis- first episode and take over.
the day that it is safe to go an engineer with a tragic “Mission: Impossible” films. penser is a so-called relic “It’s bold. It makes sense,”
outside. So they feel that childhood who seeks an- Based on Hugh Howey’s of the before times and so says Ferguson. “It’s a story
they’ve got this common swers about the silo. She’s bestselling trilogy, “Silo” illegal to own. being built up around a
mission,” says creator and played by Rebecca Fer- also stars Tim Robbins, The series contains two op- world where you don’t
showrunner Graham Yost. guson, who says she was Common, David Oyelowo, posite philosophic ideas have to automatically see
“Bu you just get a sense drawn to the work by its Rashida Jones and Will Pat- that mankind is good and it it through the lens of the
that there’s been a slight complexity. ton. The first two episodes is society that makes it bad, character who’s going to
eugenic program to try “If you and I right now have drop Friday. and that men and women pull you through it. I love
and breed out curiosity, to be stuck in a silo and we This is world-building that are born fundamentally that in storytelling.”q

Upon further review, Fox sets viewer record for Super Bowl

By JOE REEDY lion by 2 million after a re- issues with out-of-home igence in conducting the was credited with over 1
AP Sports Writer view that revealed encod- measurement. review and coming to the million viewers during the
Upon further review, this ing irregularities as well as “I really appreciate their dil- most correct number pos- game at a time when their
year’s Super Bowl ended sible. Super Bowl Sunday usual number is 80,000. A
up setting a viewer record. is the most difficult day for second review found errors
Nielsen released a revised them because you have with out-of-home measure-
number of 115.1 million for not just the scale but peo- ment.
Fox Sports’ broadcast of ple are watching on Eng- The total includes the
the Kansas City Chiefs’ 38- lish and Spanish, in and out broadcasts on Fox and Fox
35 victory over the Philadel- of home, online and all of Deportes as well as stream-
phia Eagles in February. that has to be stitched to- ing on Fox and the NFL’s
The previous record was gether into a credible num- digital sites.
the 2015 game between ber. I give them credit for “It was a little deflating
New England and Seattle acknowledging the issue, when it seemed like we
at 114,442,000 viewers, not being transparent about didn’t get the record but
including streaming. It also it and get to the most cor- now that we know that we
supplanted the 2017 Super rect number they can get did, it’s validating. It gives
Bowl between Atlanta and to,” said Fox Sports Execu- us pride in the year that we
New England (113,668,000) tive Vice President Michael had,” Mulvihill said.
as the most-watched of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) holds Mulvihill, who is head of The numbers for Rihanna’s
the trophy after their win against the Philadelphia Eagles in
Fox’s 10 Super Bowls. the NFL Super Bowl 57 football game, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023, in strategy and analytics. halftime show were also re-
Nielsen revised this year’s Glendale, Ariz. The review was initially trig- vised from 118.7 million to
original figure of 113.1 mil- Associated Press gered when NFL Network 121 million.q