The Silo that premieres today is not the one you will be watching in two weeks

polygon.com:

Personally, when I hear about a show called Silo, I get real jazzed. I’m a city kid mostly, and silos? They might as well be Stonehenge. Entire buildings just for grain or missiles, depending on the local economy? Wild stuff. Get this, though: In Apple TV Plus’ Silo, people live in one. Why? Well, that’s sorta the mystery. The trouble is, Silo goes about solving it one way, before kind of changing its mind and doing it another way.

This means that there are two versions of Silo. The first one is the one you can watch now, with the two episodes currently streaming on Apple TV Plus. In them, you learn about the community of people who live in a massive underground silo that reaches 144 levels deep into the Earth. The outside world, they’re told, is toxic, and to survive in the silo they abide by all sorts of byzantine rules.

For one, no one talks about what happened before the silo. Even pre-apocalypse objects are forbidden (you may find it hard not to laugh when characters regard a Pez dispenser like it’s the Necronomicon); among the gravest crimes one can commit is simply saying that they want to go outside. If you do, they’ll give you the worst punishment they can think of, which is sending you outside. It’s a death sentence with a chore attached: To clean the camera that serves as the community’s window out to the wasteland, and then to die from the poison in the atmosphere.

Or that’s what everyone’s told. Silo’s opening pair of episodes follow Allison (Rashida Jones), a woman who services the silo’s IT, and her husband Holston (David Oyelowo), a sheriff, as they independently come to believe that the outside world may not be the wasteland they’ve been told it is. Eventually, they decide to leave.

This sets up the