Silo Episode 6 Breakdown | Recap & Review "The Relic" | Season 1

[@PetePeppers1]

This was a really big episode where you can see that the early work really pays off. They made Billings a lot more interesting too. It’s a nice touch for him to have his own big secret while his allegiances remain unclear. Jules displays her darker side by laying into him and all the backstory with George does a good job to balance things out. The shell tattoo that you see she has a fascination with when she’s with George coming from the book was another great detail as well. What do you think is going on behind those screens?

[@pspirto8014]

I think what is going on behind those screens is... oh wait, I've read the books.

[@PetePeppers1]

I was just looking at Reddit and it seems like some of the book readers there jumped to a totally different conclusion about the screens than I did the first time I watched this episode.

[@pspirto8014]

@@PetePeppers1 Actually, I'm not quite sure what it was. They've already changed a few things, so was it stuff from the 2nd book, or some scene for the show only? Hmmm. (I'm trying to be cryptic.) :)

[@wolfpecker5710]

This show reminds me of the Vault Tec bunker stories and the weird experiments they had going on in the fallout series 😂

[@mr.duanesharpe]

@@PetePeppers1hey Pete. You think they will come with another season of the Expanse?

[@GabrielAlcala956]

Thank God a cat finally makes an appearance in the Silo. All is well now. Meow!

[@catherinesanchez1185]

There was no way they could have kept out mice and rats when they closed up the silo . Cats would be essential

[@johntowers1213]

@@catherinesanchez1185 but you'd imagine strictly controlled rather than simply kept as basic pets by average citizens. I'm not surprised they are there. Or the reveal that dogs are too, just that what appears to be an unremarkable individual with a bit of a sketchy past with Judicial is able to own one..That did seem a little out of type

[@zzq07]

Until this episode, I tought there were no animals in SILO, and I tought how sad life must be without cats and dogs

[@GrannyGamer1]

Thanks for reading out written documents. I'm vision impaired, thus having to hope I'll be able to extrapolate from context. This habit of yours really helps me understand the show. 💯

[@alveolate]

it's also rather easy to miss those screens if you happened to look away at the right moment... recaps and analyses really help with these mystery shows.

[@GrannyGamer1]

@@alveolate yeah, once, I sneezed and missed Tyrion snuffing his pappy

[@dankerman321]

I find myself pausing the show so I can read documents and notes. Took me a bit to understand, Double the roses, but why didn't she?

[@RusakovLA]

Screens in the secret room are high tech compared to all other screens. But cafeteria screens are also high tech.

[@mr.duanesharpe]

Yup. I was like. Ohh okay. I sorta knew they had high tech. These people in high places keep the low born people under a vale. Same with America or society. Imagine if we all were balanced with wealth etc. anyways. My question is “where TF is that data disk?”

[@vit.budina]

I also noticed one more little detail: when Sims searches the database for the PEZ dispenser, the measurements in the digital database are in millimetres, while the archive journal contains only height, and is also measured in imperial units.

[@dedknedy]

This was probably already commented on. To me the PEZ dispenser clearly represents the Silo with an elevator system.

[@alveolate]

the pez dispenser's description... actually kinda sounds a little like a miniature silo? maybe hinting that the silo's "head" can also be opened and people are supposed to be allowed to "pop out" like pez candy? the setup after this episode really makes me question whether "everything is a lie" and that the whole silo is some sorta human experiment where folks were being artificially contained within a controlled environment as a sort of long-term experiment, like a the real-life mars habitat that NASA tested on earth... i'm reminded of the setting of Severance, and maybe even that awesome reveal in the 2014 miniseries Ascension (MAJOR SPOILERS do not look it up if you wanna try the show), or that rather confusing 1899 show.

[@dartdukii]

I hope not , lots of what you said was already done in Ascension tv show. And that was good.

[@alveolate]

@@dartdukii yea but wow i did not expect to randomly remember Ascension again. maybe i should go rewatch that one some time.

[@jaywhy3178]

" the whole silo is some sorta human experiment" wow, that thought hadn't crossed my mind. That is a *dark* theory.

[@ballookey]

(no spoilers) I devoured the first two books over the holiday weekend and your thoughts about the Pez dispenser reminded me of something I thought while reading them. I had the thought that the story unfolds a bit like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, where several blind men are allowed to examine an elephant, but only one part of it for each man, and they each describe what the creature must be like based on their observations. It seems to be a similar theme with the watch: representing different things to everyone who sees it. I have only just started the last book, and while I think the books are pretty good (page turners, as far as I'm concerned), I do appreciate the show embellishing/elaborating on the source material. The ideas are clearly there and there's a few pieces that I think could have done with rearranging anyway, LOL. Can't wait for more episodes.

[@josephchurch7871]

I really liked the juxtaposition of the Silo and the Pez dispenser. As the Pez dispenser is itself a Silo and the duck on top is a representation of a duck. I haven’t read the books but I’m gripped. Love the reviews.

[@okdude8215]

The duck on top is a representation of a duck.⁉️

[@Juxss]

Jules was more shocked at the fact that there were real colored images instead of drawings on the paper, than the content of it, besides the sky of course.

[@GabrielAlcala956]

Wow good catch. Just put that together.

[@yobiwolrd07]

Thanks!

[@PetePeppers1]

The only pictures they've ever seen are the grainy black and white ones they have taken for their job IDs. Walker brought that up in one of their conversations.

[@mr.duanesharpe]

What sky? Remember or get this, I think THEY let them believe whatever. We the viewer sees what we know I true but I think that every thing shown on this show is a mask for a later plot. This show stresses my PTSD!

[@SAarumDoK]

I had read the books, but it has been so long now. Seing the show, its framing of the story and plot still blow my mind, even if remember some brides of informations. The last scene was mindblowing.

[@alison4dice]

I haven’t read the books yet, but I assumed the more futuristic screens shown at the end were in the janitor’s closet that Sims mentioned last episode. It matches what he described about his world changing after looking inside. I found the scene where Juliette was looking at the book to be moving as she learn more about the world than she ever could have known before.

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

" A " world doesnt mean it's " the " " same " world outside

[@alison4dice]

@@creatorsfreedom6734 Fair point

[@BonChanSama]

These changes are super exciting! Im always a lil skeptical when books are adapted but so far Apples Silo has been amazing, fresh but still true to source material. Anyway, your videos are always the best companion afterwards. Apple should partner with you!

[@PetePeppers1]

The author was involved with the writer's room

[@BonChanSama]

@@PetePeppers1 that’s awesome! Hopefully this is another show like The Expanse

[@pspirto8014]

@@BonChanSama You know, it's funny, since after watching Ep3, I was thinking that Silo might share the top spot of my all time favorite TV shows with The Expanse. So far my answer is yes.

[@BonChanSama]

Pete’s whole channel waiting on that next Ep breakdown rn!

[@cakesama9770]

The screen in the cafeteria is super high tech to be able to alter all the greenery while keeping the cleaners the same is super impressive would be pretty hard to pull of with modern tech

[@williamemerick6060]

yeah, rewatch episode when sheriff takes helmut off. he dead. you only see th same image of outside as the one on harddrive, birds and all, so its a recording they see when outside

[@Hochspitz]

I am thoroughly enjoying this suspenseful show and your being able to read the Pez report helped alot.

[@ghaytho.dabbagh1311]

Is it only me noticing that the screens in the surveillance room are way more advanced the all the other monitors in the silo!?

[@scpatl4now]

A guess a real positive of these shows is that it pushes me to want to read the source material, and having made my way through some of it, the one thing I've noticed is that they are definitely exchanging places between 2 book characters for TV...and I will leave it there as to not spoil.

[@Schauk]

One detail that caught my attention was the computer monitors that are CRT and it doesn't make sense if you read the books. But now, I wonder if those large monitors on surveillance are LCD, because they seem to be flat, and if so, why the desktop monitors are not LCD...

[@dartdukii]

Yeah but we didnt see much of the secret monitor room anyway, hopefully the show picks ip some slack after this. Eps 3 and 4 should have been what eps 5 and 6 were.

[@theboyfaz]

Not sure if the books came before or after the Fallout series of games but I'm getting huge Vault-Tec vibes from the Silo! Loving these episode breakdowns as much as I am watching the show itself. You always flag up something I missed on the first viewing of an episode. Keep up the good work! :)

[@charlesajones77]

Fallout is much older. But yeah, I thought the same thing. And like with Vault-Tec, there may well have been a real catastrophe, but there's something fishy going on here beyond just being a fallout shelter.

[@justsmile3165]

Thanks for picking The Silo up Pete--doesn't seem to see the kind of analysis that shows like Westworld or Andor got but it seems to be on a par with those. I really like Yost's additions or expansions of characters. The source material wouldn't adapt as well exactly as written. I'm also a big fan of the casting. I'm hoping that the series gets to the same resolution as Wool did.

[@johnh8268]

I would love to see a video about changes from the book. Its been a long time since I've read them.

[@Emilysiegel533]

It’s almost like these relics are getting used as black mail. So if they need to arrest someone they can blame it on a relic. It’s like they know where they all are but they wait to collect them when they need to arrest someone

[@alveolate]

heck, they may even be planted, or the "traders" are in cahoots with these spies, or being directly manipulated. this sinister aspect of the show really amps the anxiety.

[@jimmyolsenblues]

Great recap thanks for doing this

[@xBoRiCuAxGiRLx]

Lucas is the Galileo of the Silo

[@clayongunzelle9555]

One of Jules biggest problems is that she gets so hyper focused on what she wants so much that she ignores everybody's advice, she could've avoided a lot of suspicion is she just listened and stop wearing the watch

[@anelisajustanelisa236]

I don't know why she insists on publicly wearing a watch she received from a guy who died suspiciously after spending time bunkered with him in an unsanctioned relationship playing with illegal things she doesn't know. It's garnered suspicion from episode 1. I get being headstrong and determined but it's proven to be a liability more than once now😫😫. It's dumb

[@clayongunzelle9555]

@@anelisajustanelisa236 it's getting to they point for sure

[@Passionatelycurious91]

I kept screaming at the screen!

[@briankong-sivert6318]

Great recap, as usual! I'm really getting into this show. There was one brief thing that I don't think you mentioned and I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on it. After the conversation between Juliette & Walker ends, there's a shot of Walker looking at a drawing that seems to have a younger version of herself with another woman. Is that supposed to be a younger Meadows? I'm wondering if we're going to get some back story on why Walker decided she had to hide in Mechanical for so many years. Is there a tie between Meadows & Walker? Maybe a relationship gone badly? And with the power that Meadows wields, Walker felt she needed to go as far off the grid as she could within the closed environment of the Silo? I'd love to hear any thoughts you have.

[@MsFlamingFlamer]

I don’t think it’s Meadows but there is a previous episode where Meadows said she knew her wife. She was named (but I forgot her exact name).

[@usquebaugh1]

Hi Pete. I used to love your BCS collabs with Courtney ('s Reviews) and others. This was the first one I sought out after consuming Silo episode 6 after the reveal at the end. I have not read or listened to the audiobooks (though I might now). Perhaps this was mentioned in previous installments, but I'm surprised no one brings up the Watchmaker analogy; especially since Juliette has the ability to figure out the "design" well enough to make the tools required to fix it. Of course, the idea of the PEZ dispenser as a forbidden object so that the population remains "elevator innocent/ignorant" is humorous; Judicial would allow Stairway to Heaven but definitely not Love In An Elevator! 😆

[@BootsMcGee3]

I willing to bet, Simms, is Syms. Simulation. He's a cyborg!

[@SilverScale.]

Very interesting that it's called a Forgiveness holiday -- I wanted the show to explain a little more what it's about, it's just treated as a peripheral thing.

[@troublefollows9986]

In the books julie seeing pics of the outside world is totally different. Different place and circumstances. Reading the book may not help figure out where this series is going. Also the spy camera watching julie is probably behind the mirror . A 2way mirror.

[@PetePeppers1]

The way it's shot and Holston's suspicions all but confirm it's a two-way mirror.

[@WerkshopGI]

I find the unexplained degree of ignorance of Silo inhabitants a bit confusing. There should have been a scene showing what kind of education people are getting in there that would so throughly suppress natural human curiosity or blot out knowledge of the stars. As a viewer I understand they want to control the population but an in world explanation would have been good.

[@verdict17]

I think Bernard is like Sim’s father. He stays kind of low key and somewhat in the shadows waiting for thing to happen. I think he is the man these men report to. He is the mystery man that comes in the evening.

[@BackwardTravisty]

When this ship finally lands on earth, people are going to flip.

[@josephchurch7871]

Haven’t read the books. My theory is that they are on Mars.

[@BackwardTravisty]

@@josephchurch7871 I believe that all TV shows and movies are direct feeds from alternate universes. To that, we're both absolutely right.

[@Heworldwide]

Please tell me more… is that why they couldn’t breathe outside??

[@Heworldwide]

@@BackwardTravistynever thought about that 😮

[@josephchurch7871]

For me it’s the way the terrain looks. Kinda looks like failed terraforming.

[@Emilysiegel533]

I’m kind of mad that the old sheriff didn’t believe his wife when it’s clear he knew there were cameras- why else would he say double the flowers in the mirror

[@BayFanatic510]

Maybe he figured it out after the fact during the couple years it took him to go outside too. Interesting thought though wish jules wouldve doubled the dang flowers haha

[@andromeda5369]

@@BayFanatic510 I second that!! I don't think she understood it the right way because the note itself wasn't discovered near those flowers covering a mirror! Too bad..

[@Emilysiegel533]

@@BayFanatic510 he acted like his wife was crazy. He acted like she was completely irrational- yet he knew all of her suspicions were warranted.

[@PetePeppers1]

I think Sandy's remark to Jules about not missing the feeling she's being watched all the time that she experiences Up Top is a good indication of what Holston was going through. They have reasons to believe everything they're told about their existence and are taught from an early age that asking questions is dangerous. Holston loved his wife but his position as the Sheriff gives him a responsibility to not entertain her line of thinking. I doubt he knew for sure that there were cameras by the end but had experienced things that led him to believe someone could see what he was doing in his apartment.

[@archmaesterrenny9569]

The character name “Doug Trumbull” is presumably an homage to Douglas Trumbull, who did the special effects for 2001, Blade Runner, and many other sci fi films, right?

[@PetePeppers1]

When I was writing the script for the episode when he was first named I googled the name and thought the same thing. Haven't seen any confirmation of it though.

[@_Francis]

I just realize ppl like me who're just enjoying the ride w/o knowing anything about that story should keep away from these videos bc of the extremely spoilery comment section... damn, ppl just won't let us enjoy the show😅

[@PetePeppers1]

There aren't any spoilers in these comments, I just read through them.

[@_Francis]

@@PetePeppers1 OK, I read about a ship?... so I stopped right there

[@PetePeppers1]

Yeah, that ship comment is a guess as far as I can tell. If I see someone deliberately posting book stuff I delete it.

[@RusakovLA]

@@_Francis Ship is a big stretched guess considering there is that digging machine.

[@_Francis]

@@PetePeppers1 OK, thx, I thought it was a legit spoiler. My bad! 🙏🏾

[@brianfitzgerald6833]

I was struck by the number of spirals. Jule's tattoo, the nautilus in the picture book, the picture of the ladder into the hole in Regina Jackson's apartment. It evokes the stairway in the Silo of course, but the tattoo and the emphasis on the nautilus in the picture book suggest there may be something more going on.

[@ms.solinvictusmithra5700]

This is like Ascension tv series

[@alison4dice]

I’ve been thinking the same thing, although I haven’t found anyone else who remembers Ascension. The retro futuristic world building and enclosed atmosphere are very similar.

[@mukeshkumarcap4139]

Silo episode 6 ending remains me 1899

[@cappybenton]

Wunderbar

[@Emilysiegel533]

Do u think that there are cameras in every room like where Jules used to live or is it just in some apartments

[@mocano401]

This TV series reminds me of Ascension, similar themes

[@Emilysiegel533]

Jules is trying to get billings to understand that things are not always black and white

[@Emilysiegel533]

Since they said at the end should we wake him don’t think simms is the man that comes t night cause he would be out not sleeping

[@alison4dice]

Maybe I missed it, but why is the watch an approved or legal relic?

[@PetePeppers1]

I don't think they gave an explanation but I suppose some items would be passed down through families as long as they didn't violate any of the restrictions outlined in the pact.

[@jacoblivingston6683]

If they have cameras how come they haven’t seen George going down to his hiding spot down under mechanical?

[@rodesvilobo8670]

Do they have currency in the silo? Trade or what?

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

were the food cometh ?

[@pspirto8014]

They have small rectangular coins called credits. You can see them being thrown to the musicians at the Freedom Day celebrations, and George mentions them "credits" to Allison in their first scene together, both scenes in Ep. 1. Holston and others mentioned them, too. At the beginning of Ep2 they can be seen again when people bet on how long Holston will survive outside.

[@williamemerick6060]

obviously its tim robbins is the man who knows everything, one he is IT department head and he is also tim fucking robbins. litterally biggest actor on show.

[@Miclpea]

What about the picture of Walker and her paramour? The Judge?

[@PetePeppers1]

I don't know if there are any details connecting those two. (In the books Walker is a man and possibly more of a hermit) In episode 3 Judge Jahns says she was sad to hear that Walker's marriage broke up. And says you and Carla made a good couple. Other than that I don't think we've heard anything about her ex-wife.

[@Hattori_Keiko]

Them having security cameras inside their houses is crossing the line like whoa do they have cameras in the bathrooms as well? Smh thats some overthrow the silo situation there no wonder there was one before

[@linengray]

In case you missed it, George actually has a nautilus shaped tattoo on his arm. Re-watch it and you will see.

[@xBoRiCuAxGiRLx]

It proves how George saw the magazine already.

[@Emilysiegel533]

Did anyone else notice that Simms refers to Billings as his son not our son or the silos son he said “my Son” @16:03

[@itsmj3103]

Do you mean when he said to Jules that his son probably knows the Pact better than Juliette does? I'm pretty sure he means his actual son, the one we see at the epiosode with the generator, he stays with him through the night since he was aftaid of the dark. He meant it like "even kids know this stuff better than you, you're an impostor"

[@Emilysiegel533]

@@itsmj3103 oh I thought he was referring to Billings. Ok that makes sense

[@PetePeppers1]

yeah, it's this. He was implying that his young son we saw in episode 3 knows more about the pact than Juliette.

[@xBoRiCuAxGiRLx]

Which is sus. It might mean he’s using his son to spy on Jules and pass down “truthful” information. Jules is right not to trust him. Lol

[@Passionatelycurious91]

I think the man at night is Simms or his dad

[@melanoidmarkus]

👍🏾👌🏾

[@NINrod_M]

TBH, I’m not into this show; The second season will probably take two years to premiere. I watch your videos to keep up with it.

[@rayyanadeem2354]

Attack on titan vibes.... anyone ?

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

could do with out the D.i.S but at least it's not shoved into the viewers face but there not being tame about it

[@dartdukii]

Im still ofput by the series pacing. Its just slow but ep 6 finally revealed something

[@gmonorail]

everybody has got all the time in the world. going to stop watching here. wait for all episodes to air and binge later

[@buildamillionbridges6153]

First three episodes were great but the plot has now been meandering. Every episode should give you another piece to reveal the mysteries of this world. Like show more on the hard drive every episode so we understand what happened to the world

[@LatevSava]

you make it sound like this crap show should be watched,hah

[@adams115]

Let me guess, you watch shows like Succession

[@okdude8215]

Its pretty good so far. 👍

[@Cure4theCold]

Very slow and boring. It generally has a good concept but it's dragging. Better if they had released the entire season like netflix rather than waiting a week for an entertaining 5 out of 50 long min.