We have been watching Silo on Apple TV. It's dystopian/post-apocalyptic stuff based on three books written by Hugh Howey. We find it more gripping and less creepy than Severance. My cousin recommended the latter and I tried watching several episodes but just couldn't get into it, and my wife later watched one episode and felt it was just too weird. Earlier this summer, while waiting for Season 3 of Silo to debut, I read all three books. The show doesn't exactly track the books in several ways (typically for pacing or casting reasons), and there are a couple of storylines that were not present in the books, so I don't necessarily know exactly what will happen next. This past Friday's episode has gotten a lot of attention and commentary because of its ending. This was one place where I knew what was going to happen as soon as I had seen the names of both that episode and this coming Friday's in an episode list online—I knew what event had to happen at the end of this past Friday's installment. But it was far more sinister and wrenching on TV than it was in the books for a whole host of reasons. I won't say why because I don't want to post any spoilers in case someone else is watching the show or planning to do so. Instead, I'll say there's been a lot of discussion online about the episode's name, "Farewell," referring to one character, and I think anyone who views it that way is missing major broader context because that word really has three meanings in the context of that episode.
