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Rebecca Ferguson Has Zero Chill on Silo

To the show’s great benefit, and ours.

Ferguson even brings intensity to the late-night circuit: Here she is walking onto Fallon carrying a Dyson vacuum like a Swedish Terminator; here she is on Colbert and Meyers, giving genial dominatrix as she constantly breaks the flow of conversation to establish control. With Nichols sequestered from the rest of the established cast, Silo locks Ferguson into a nearly season-long two-hander with Steve Zahn, who plays Solo, a man she discovers in the new vault who she later learns has been alone since he was a child. There’s lot of rich ideas baked into its premise of a society built on literal class strata segmented according to work functions, with bits in there about the nature of societal control, fascism, and the spark of rebellion, but it generally doesn’t explore its moral and philosophical questions in ways that are thorny or difficult.

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