Silo season 2: Apple TV Plus release date, trailer, cast, story rumors, and more news about the sci-fi show’s return

Silo season 2 is one of the most anticipated Apple TV Plus shows of the year. The dystopian sci-fi series’ first outing was met with critical and award-based acclaim upon its mid-2023 debut, so it wasn’t a huge surprise to see the Rebecca Ferguson-led project renewed for another installment ahead of its season 1 finale.

With the Apple-developed show set to re-emerge from its underground bunker soon, you’ll want more details on what to expect from Silo‘s second season. In this guide, we’ve rounded up everything worth knowing about one of the best Apple TV Plus shows‘ next entries, including its official release date, potential plot points, cast details, and more.

It goes without saying, but full spoilers follow for Silo season 1. Potential season 2 spoilers are also discussed, as are story threads from Hugh Howey’s ‘Wool’ book trilogy, which the series is inspired by.

Silo season 2 release date

Traversing the wilderness in search of Silo season 2’s trailer like… (Image credit: Apple TV Plus)

Silo season 2’s official release date was one of nine big Comic-Con 2024 announcements that delighted us earlier this year, with news of the Apple TV show’s return – it’ll debut on Friday, November 15 – coming in late July.

Before then, we only knew that Apple TV Plus had renewed Silo for another season, with that confirmation coming in June 2023 ahead of season 1’s final episode. One month later, lead star Rebecca Ferguson told TechRadar that season 2 was a long way from making its debut on the streaming platform, with its development being heavily impacted by the 2023 Hollywood strikes that brought the industry to a standstill for much of last year.

With that industry action now a distant memory, we can look forward to Silo season 2, which will arrive with a one-episode premiere on launch day. The following nine episodes will stream weekly until the finale airs on January 17, 2025.

Silo season 2 trailer: is there one?

Apple TV Plus finally released the trailer (see above) for Silo season 2 a month ahead of the show’s release in November. The streamer dropped a roughly two-and-a-half-minute clip on October 14, giving fans their first glimpse of the Apple TV Plus show’s most-wanted character outside.

Before the first trailer was released, fans only had a very short clip that was shown at Apple’s WWDC event to go off. The brief clip showed Ferguson looking pensive but because it was short, it didn’t give away very much.

But the trailer shows off a lot more about what we can expect, including whether Ferguson’s search for the truth will continue – she’s seen wandering outside of the silo in a barren dystopian world with multiple silos around her in the trailer.

While an official synopsis still has not been released, considering that the sci-fi series is based on a series of books, there is some speculation that can be made, which we go into further below.

Silo season 2 cast: confirmed

Steven Zahn is the only new actor confirmed to appear in season 2 so far (Image credit: Apple TV Plus)

Full spoilers follow for Silo season 1.

Here’s the confirmed cast for Silo season 2 so far, as revealed in an Apple press release:

Rebecca Ferguson as Juliette NichollsCommon as Robert SimsTim Robbins as Bernard HollandHarriet Walter as Martha WalkerChinaza Uche as Paul BillingsAvi Nash as Lukas KyleAlexandria Riley as Camille SimsShane McRae as KnoxRemmie Milner as Shirly CampbellClare Perkins as CarlaBilly Postelthwaite as HankRick Gomez as Patrick KennedyCaitlin Zoz as Kathleen BillingsTanya Moodie as Judge MeadowsIain Glen as Doctor Pete NicholsSteven Zahn as Solo

Of the above contingent, the only new cast addition 2 is that of Steve Zahn. Last seen as the angsty dad Mark Mossbacher in The White Lotus, he’ll be appearing as the character called Solo. Apple hasn’t provided any further insight into this individual, so he’s an enigma for the time being.

As for main season 1 cast members who won’t return, Rashida Jones and David Oyelowo won’t be back as Allison Becker and her husband Holston, who was the titular silo’s sheriff. The pair perished after leaving the underground bunker whilst wearing defective suits, so don’t expect to see this duo again next time.

Silo season 2 plot speculation

Bernard Holland will return in one of season 2’s dual storylines (Image credit: Apple TV Plus)

Full spoilers follow for Silo‘s first season.

Apple hasn’t provided us with an official story brief for Silo season 2 yet. Indeed, the only things we’ve been given so far are the aforementioned X/Twitter release date post, which comes captioned with an ominous sentence reading “‘in the event of a failed cleaning, prepare for war’ – The Order”, some first-look images and the trailer.

Based on what we know about Howey’s novels, plus what transpired in the season 1 finale, we have a vague idea of where things could go.

Season 1’s ending was incredibly bleak. After Juliette discovered the hidden conspiracy hidden within the Silo, and believing that the outside world was a beautiful and verdant place, rather than the barren hellscape shown to those who live inside it, she managed to escape and learn the truth once and for all. Unfortunately, when she finally emerged, the idyllic world was all an illusion to deceive cleaners (individuals who, upon breaking the law, are forced to venture outside and clean the silo’s exterior). The world, in fact, is a fat lot of barren nothingness – well, apart from the many craters lining its surface, each with their own hundred-plus storied silos.

So, where can the series go from here? It’s unconfirmed, but we suspect season 2 will likely be based on ‘Shift’, the second novel in Howey’s ‘Wool’ book trilogy, which tells the origins of the silos, as well as that of young congressman Donald Keene who’s ordered to design and build them by Senator Thurman.

How much of this original storyline is going to be used in the show, though, is very much being kept under lock and key. However, showrunner Graham Yost has provided a couple of telling details about how Silo season 2 will begin – and it sounds like she’ll be forced to find safety in a new silo to escape the toxic environment surrounding her. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly (EW), Yost said: “Juliette has a very difficult time getting into this other silo, and she’s looking for safety ’cause her suit is running out of air. The wondrous tape that Walker [Harriet Walter] arranged for her to have her suit wrapped in, that’s going to fail. A lot of the episode is about Juliette just trying to survive and the engineering stuff she has to do to try to stay alive.”

Juliette will spend much of season 2’s premiere searching for a new place to stay alive (Image credit: Apple TV Plus)

Season 2’s opener won’t just focus on its titular character, however. Expanding on what viewers can expect, Yost also told EW: “The premiere [follows] Juliette, but we actually don’t start with her. We’re going to start back an undetermined – at least at first – amount of time ago, in another silo. We’re going to see a rebellion going very wrong.

“They [the rebels] run up and we cut from them just as they’re going outside to seeing that same flag sticking up out of the ground, out of the hand of a skeleton, and it’s God knows how many years later. In the distance is this person in a cleaning suit walking toward it, and it’s Juliette, who will follow the trail of bodies that will lead her into a dead silo.”

Sounds like we’re going to go deeper (if you pardon the pun) into the mythology and lore surrounding the silos, then. Not only that, but Silo season 2 will also tell concurrent storylines – one that follows Juliette, and the other taking place at her original home. “Juliette knows [what] could happen to her silo,” Yost added during his EW chat, “And is there any way she could get back to them to help them to stop that from happening? Stuff’s starting to get really, really scary”. Roll on November, we say. In the meantime, learn more clues about where Silo season 2’s plot could go, based on its literature.

Is Silo season 2 going to be the sci-fi show’s final entry?

Book fans will know if we’ll see Common’s Robert again in future seasons (Image credit: Apple TV Plus)

No. It looks like we’ll be getting at least two more seasons of Silo, with Ferguson telling Collider (in April 2024) that the show’s future was already written in the books: “I believe that the show has an ending, and I know when that is, so that’s the answer. You will find out when the show is done. To be honest, I don’t think it’s a secret. The books are the books. It’s three books, and the three books are divided into four seasons.

“So, I believe…I think we’re absolutely fine with saying season 1, we’ve done. Season 2 is shot and coming out, and we’re now looking at green-lighting seasons 3 and 4. And I think we would film them maybe together and that would be the end.”

It’s unclear if the final two seasons would be shot back to back, or if it’ll be a few years before this series is wrapped up. Regardless, Silo season 2 isn’t too long from launching, so we can take comfort from its impending arrival – oh, and the fact that we don’t live in a post-apocalyptic world where the very air we breathe can kill us.

For more Apple TV Plus coverage, read our guides on the best Apple TV Plus movies, Foundation season 3, and Severance season 2.