GOING UNDER GROUND

THE WOOL TRILOGY COMES TO SCREENS IN SUBTERRANEAN SERIES SILO 

- BRYAN CAIRNS

IMAGINE EVERYTHING YOU HOLD true turned out to be one gigantic lie. That's the conundrum that threatens to devour the last 10,000 humans on Earth in upcoming TV series Silo.

Based on Hugh Howey's bestselling trilogy of Wool novels, the dystopian drama takes place after a global event wipes out most of the population. In the aftermath, a community of survivors settles into a massive bunker that stretches downwards beneath the planet's surface. The structure protects people from the toxic atmosphere... or so they believe

What hooked showrunner Graham Yost (Justified, Speed), however, wasn't the post-apocalyptic landscape, but the puzzles woven into the narrative, "What grabbed me about the story is, 'Oh wow. This is a mystery. Who built the silo? When? Why? What's going on?"" Yost tells SFX. "Then it's the whole question of, 'Is it deadly outside? What's going on?