In my Silo Season 2 Episode 3 review, I lamented the fact that we’re several episodes into a second season, and the story is starting to crawl.

Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut because Silo Season 2 Episode 4 opens up with a grievous deus ex machina that lays out everything Mechanical is up against. It’s literally written on a wall for them to read.

Apparently, despite all their visits to this dark and otherwise unknown area of the Silo, no one ever read these gigantic messages written on a 100′ x 100′ wall and thought, “Gee, that sounds really bad.”

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It’s a genuinely face-palm moment, a cringe-inducing flash of “what the actual…” well, you know the rest.

It’s an occasion of “Hey, let’s get this show on the road” condensed down to, “Just write the story on a wall that everyone sees, but no one actually...