“Silo” is certainly one of Apple TV’s most underrated sci-fi collection. The small display screen adaptation of Hugh Howey’s novel trilogy of the identical title has a compelling thriller and impeccable worldbuilding. And with its story specializing in folks being trapped in remoted places underneath mysterious circumstances (all whereas these in energy hold the true historical past of the world a secret), it even seems like a live-action “Assault on Titan” TV present at occasions.
Throughout its first two seasons, “Silo” created a lived-in, tactile setting stuffed with memorable characters. It made the present compelling to observe even with out its central mysteries, including layers of which means to its thriller field plotting. Season 2 additionally ended on an enormous cliffhanger, and never only for the folks of the titular silo, whose lives could also be in imminent hazard. No, the large 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 seems 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. Lower to Season 3, and Helen is now a part of the present’s essential ensemble, with Season 3 splitting its consideration between the previous and current. As for Helen? There is a cause she most likely seems acquainted.
Certainly, “Silo” is a present stuffed with nice actors, together with Rebecca Ferguson, Frequent, Tim Robbins, and the scene-stealing Steve Zahn. As for Helen? She’s performed by Jessica Henwick, who received her begin on TV in 2010 on the fantasy collection “Spirit Warriors” earlier than scoring her huge break in 2015 with roles in “Sport of Thrones” and “Star Wars: The Power Awakens.”
Jessica Henwick has been in some big tasks in addition to Silo
Jessica Henwick has amassed some spectacular credit in a reasonably quick 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 generally known as 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 job she reprised for “Luke Cage” and “The Defenders” as nicely. She additionally has expertise in voice performing, having lent her vocals to each “Blood of Zeus” (an exceptional fantasy present based mostly 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 position was Jessika “Testor” Pava in “The Power 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 in search of Neo (Keanu Reeves) when the film begins.
Extra not too long ago, Henwick starred in Netflix’s restricted collection “Vladimir” and had a small position in the under-seen Glen Powell car turned HBO Max hit “Methods to Make a Killing.” Suffice it to say, between all of that and “Silo,” her profession goes fairly swimmingly in the mean time.
New episodes of “Silo” premiere Fridays on Apple TV.