Silo: This huge logic flaw needs to be fixed in Season 2

• “Silo” shows us a terrifying dystopian future for humanity.
• But as clever as the Apple TV+ series is, it has a major and at times annoying logic hole.
• The more than 100 floors of the series seem to be covered in just a few minutes, even if you climb.

The first season of the Apple TV+ series “Silo” fascinates with its dark plot and the dystopian future prospects for mankind. But as impressive as the sci-fi series may be, the creators of a certain scene were just as clumsy with the logic of the series.

In “Silo”, humanity lives underground in huge bunkers after a nuclear war has rendered the surface uninhabitable. The silos are hundreds of floors deep and here we come to the problem that creates a huge logic hole in the series.

In a scene from the Season 1 finale episode, Sheriff Juliette climbs through a garbage chute that covers the 100 floors of the silo. As she tries to evade the authorities, she seemingly effortlessly climbs several floors in just a few minutes. But that is impossible.

Assuming that there are about 12 meters between the floors, Juliette has to walk almost 1.2 kilometers to get from the top floor to the bottom one. This could take her hours or even days up a shaky ladder and would probably only be possible if she takes regular breaks, because climbing is not easy for that long.

But not only in this scene does “Silo” seem to ignore the time it takes to get from one floor to the next. In one scene, Juliette takes an extra day off because she has to walk a long way to another floor. So far so good. But as soon as she has been shown wandering to one place for a long time, there is a cut and suddenly she is somewhere else again, as if there were no long way in between.

The series ignores the distances, although it itself regularly reminds the audience how far one has to walk to traverse the entire silo. However, the big logic gap that quickly tears you out of the atmosphere of the series can easily be fixed in the second season.

“Silo” needs to be more aware of its time and the dimensions of the bunker. Of course, in a 10-episode limited series, you can’t always show random walks through stairwells, but there are ways to better represent the time elapsed during the ascents or descents.