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The Incomparable Mothership

755: Is This... Dystopian?

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

From deep down in the lower levels to high up near the surface, we’re traveling through the post-apocalypic society of “Silo” on Apple TV+. Do eggs exist? What’s in daddy’s secret closet of mystery? Why are Pez dispensers outlawed? We begin with non-spoiler thoughts and then after the spoiler horn, we break down season one and two. (There are no spoilers for the Hugh Howey stories the show is based on!)...

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0:00.0

The Incomparable, number 755, February 2025.

0:10.0

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

0:12.0

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

0:13.0

This episode is about the TV series Silo on Apple TV Plus based on the silo wool, whatever you want to call it, stories by Hugh Howie.

0:22.8

We're going to be talking about the TV show here.

0:24.9

If you have not seen the TV show, that's okay.

0:28.1

Our first section is going to be about sort of spoiler-free, basically,

0:32.9

about what it's about, what the vibe is,

0:35.3

whether you should watch it, why you should watch it,

0:44.7

and then we will talk about it, uh, in detail after the spoiler horn, uh, about both seasons on Apple TV plus. So, um, let me introduce my panelists, because that is how we do it here at the

0:50.1

incomparable after 15 years. Glenn Fleischman hasn't been here for about a year, but we still do it that way.

0:55.7

Hi, Glenn.

0:56.6

I have been working a special project somewhere deep within.

1:01.4

Deep.

1:01.7

They keep you in the silo to protect everyone.

1:04.9

Aline Sims is also here.

1:05.9

Hi.

1:06.3

Welcome back.

1:07.0

Hi.

1:07.5

It's weird being on an episode about a series based on a book, but I haven't read the books.

1:12.5

Yeah. I'm used to reading the books to be on the incomparable. That's your identity is you're the one who read the book.

1:19.3

Yep. And now it's blown completely. I haven't done it. I've read some, but I don't think I read all of them, but I read a bunch of, I don't even know.

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