Review: Silo, “The Book of Quinn” | Season 2, Episode 8
Even a refreshingly character-focused episode can’t help sidelining our ostensible protagonist
We’re getting there! With only a few episodes left in the second season, Silo is finally starting to push the story forward. But “The Book of Quinn” isn’t just notable for narrative progress; it’s possibly the meatiest episode in a while in terms of characterization, which in many ways is more important.
In the past couple weeks, I’ve felt some frustration with the pace of Lukas’s storyline. Making an underserved character the IT shadow was a smart move, and the Legacy is a fascinating concept, but the particulars of decoding Salvador Quinn’s letter aren’t as interesting as the show thinks they are. This episode doesn’t exactly shift focus, either; pretty much every Lukas scene is still in service to puzzling out the same MacGuffin message. In fact, outside of the line about knowing “the game is rigged,” we still don’t know the contents of the letter, even by the end.
But everything here just feels so much more essential than previous weeks, and that’s because the episode treat…