The major causes of silo failures are due to shortcomings in one or more of four categories: design, construction, usage, and maintenance. Each of these is explored below, with examples and lessons learned. Silo design requires specialized knowledge.

The inhabitants are made to believe that the world outside the silo is deadly and poisonous, which is true. When workers are sent out to clean the camera at the silo's surface, they are only able to survive for a few moments before ultimately suffocating and dying from the poisonous air.

Season 2 is fully shot already, which indicates it may be released before the end of 2024. The full arc of the story is expected to last four seasons total, with the show ending after season 4. Despite that larger plan, additional seasons beyond season 2 have not yet been greenlit.

Everyone who is sent out to clean sees that the world is beautiful and cleans the camera in an attempt to show the “reality”. However, the actual reality is exactly what we see on the screens; the outside world is in fact dead. What happened to the earth in the silo TV show is an atomic war…