“If you boil the pact down to one rule, it’s do not say you want to go outside, or you will go outside.” According to Holston (David Oyelowo), the sheriff of the Silo in Apple TV+’s aptly-named new sci-fi series Silo, that’s the secret to staying alive in the mysterious subterranean city where he and his fellow community members exist: never get too curious about what’s going on in the world above. Created and written by Graham Yost and directed by Morten Tyldum, the 10-episode post-apocalyptic drama is based on Hugh Howey’s bestselling novel series of the same name and is set in a dystopian future where the last ten thousand people on Earth live in a mile-deep underground silo, abiding by strict regulations they believe are in place to protect them from the toxic atmosphere outside. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “Life in the silo in many ways is pretty good.