{"id":62371,"date":"2026-07-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=2b792ee20b90b7731428ca5e21be980b"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:12:19","slug":"silo-season-3-showrunner-graham-yost-explains-the-time-jumps-and-turning-half-of-the-show-into-a-political-thriller-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/07\/09\/silo-season-3-showrunner-graham-yost-explains-the-time-jumps-and-turning-half-of-the-show-into-a-political-thriller-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Silo&#8217; season 3 showrunner Graham Yost explains the time jumps and turning half of the show into a political thriller (interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <p>Apple TV\u2019s riveting sci-fi series, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/entertainment\/space-movies-shows\/silo-season-3-trailer-teases-showing-us-how-the-world-ended-video\"><u><strong>Silo<\/strong><\/u><\/a>,\" is stretching its narrative legs for its third and penultimate season. Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) deals with amnesia after her fiery return to Silo 18, satisfying secrets are revealed, and we strap in for temporal jumps 352 years back to the \"Before Times\" to figure out how the apocalypse arrived.<\/p><p>\"We rolled the dice a bit and hoped it would work and weren\u2019t entirely sure, but felt it would,\" Executive Producer and Showrunner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/entertainment\/silo-season-2-finale-creator-graham-yost-on-that-big-time-jump-and-how-it-heralds-season-3-exclusive\"><u><strong>Graham Yost<\/strong><\/u> <\/a>tells Space regarding the new season's time shifts. \"After the fact, I heard some of the quibbles about too much time in 17, but we made our best guess on that one as well. What we did feel was that cutting back and forth was not a real problem. Even though it's 350 years separating the two stories, it's not like we're going back to Elizabethan times. It\u2019s Silo world, which is its own crazy time. It's a place out of time. <\/p><p>\"So when I saw the first episodes, I felt like this is okay. Part of the good thing about being outside, being people in modern clothing and cars, is you know immediately when you are and where you are. That really helped orient the story.\"<\/p><div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet ><div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/BLBvbMtjyAQ\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><p>After Juliette\u2019s harrowing ordeal in Silo 17 last season, audiences were left hungering for answers heading into this new batch of ten episodes. Fortunately, they shine the light of truth on matters \u2014 both in the doomsday bunker and back when Earth was still recognizable. <\/p><p>These time shifts allowed the production crew and cinematographers to tinker with the show\u2019s visual style, including using different equipment to film each time period.<\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"uzc9sziQVyV56ThhVBj9kW\" name=\"Silo_Photo_030107.jpg.photo_modal_show_home_large\" alt=\"a man in a suit at a huge construction project site\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/uzc9sziQVyV56ThhVBj9kW.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/uzc9sziQVyV56ThhVBj9kW.jpg'  class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Ashley Zukerman in \"Silo,\" premiering July 3, 2026 on Apple\u00a0TV. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Apple TV)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\"I think they went to a different lens,\" Yost adds. \"The choice was made to go from an anamorphic lens to something else, so there is a slight change and a slightly different framing. We've got the same production designer for both units, so there can be little flavors that Nicole [Northridge] would come up with that we don\u2019t even realize are hints of what\u2019s coming in the future. \"<\/p><p>\"But the origin story is a political thriller basically. We\u2019re harkening back to 'Three Days of the Condor,' 'The Parallax View' and things like that of the '70s,\" explains Yost. \"That sort of paranoid cinema. There are bits in there that let us feel way more cinematic because we equate that with cinema rather than television.\"<\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"j5PoHaRk8Fkaih4boHvx4m\" name=\"SIlo_Photo_030106.jpg.photo_modal_show_home_large\" alt=\"a woman in a computer room with lighted walls\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/j5PoHaRk8Fkaih4boHvx4m.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/j5PoHaRk8Fkaih4boHvx4m.jpg'  class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Alexandria Riley as Camille Sims in \"Silo\" season 3 <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Apple TV)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>It's not all about the time jumps back to the past, though; Yost and his team have also been looking to up their game in the Silo's themselves, too.<\/p><p>\"Then, in 18 with Juliette, the only expansion there was to spend as much time as we did within the algorithm room with Camille talking to the voice and making that interesting,\" reveals Yost. <\/p><p>\"The answer to that was you cast Alex [Alexandria Riley]. She does such a compelling job that you\u2019re just going to watch her talk to a wall. We knew how good she was from the scene she did in season one, and that's why this whole storyline developed, because we love her.\"<\/p><p><strong>Apple TV's \"Silo\" season 3 premieres on July 3, 2026.<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"b9aa56d4-7b84-11f1-8b47-67abf0039944\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"$12.99\/month (7-day free trial)\" data-dimension48=\"$12.99\/month (7-day free trial)\" href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><figure class=\"van-image-figure \"  ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"DnmUtJRjm9r68xkecgfKvW\" name=\"apple-tv new logo 2026\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/DnmUtJRjm9r68xkecgfKvW.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/a><p><u><strong>Watch Silo on Apple TV+:<\/strong><\/u><br>Apple TV+: <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/\"  rel=\"nofollow\" data-dimension112=\"b9aa56d4-7b84-11f1-8b47-67abf0039944\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"$12.99\/month (7-day free trial)\" data-dimension48=\"$12.99\/month (7-day free trial)\" data-dimension25=\"\">$12.99\/month (7-day free trial)<\/a><br>Apple TV & Peacock Premium: <a href=\"https:\/\/try.appletvapp.apple\/peacock-bundle\"  rel=\"nofollow\">$14.99\/month<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re harkening back to &#8216;Three Days of The Condor,&#8217; &#8216;The Parallax View,&#8217; and things like that of the &#8217;70s.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2800,2805],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-space-movies-amp-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62407,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62371\/revisions\/62407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}