As the demand grew, so did the world of Wool. It’s an uncommon format for literature, but in the age of ebooks, they’re becoming more and more popular: Wool was initially available as a Kindle exclusive for 99 cents. While altogether the Wool series is about as long as any other sci-fi novel, the first novella only clocks in at around 60 pages. While the books and the series focus mainly on mechanic-turned-leader Juliet, the first part of the first book - and the pilot - barely feature her, instead focusing on the tragic tale of Sheriff Holsted and his wife Alison. They follow a dystopian world where the populace lives underground, and the discovery of a dark secret. Silo is based on Wool, a series of short novellas by Hugh Howey. Though the script for the episode was near-flawless, the true reason Silo’s pilot episode is so enthralling goes even deeper: the show’s very rare form of source material. people will just turn off,” it’s even more difficult.īut Silo, now streaming on Apple TV+, somehow took a completely new and original dystopia and established everything a viewer would need to know in one episode. It’s a tall order in any medium, but on Apple TV+, a streamer that has told directors that “if something doesn’t happen in the first 30 seconds. In less than an hour, the episode has to establish the rules of the world where the story takes place, the inciting incident of the series as a whole, and any pertinent characters. With a sci-fi series pilot, it’s an even finer art.
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