Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) almost drowns in episode 1 of season 2 of Siloon Apple TV+. A little reminder of season 1 is in order.
It’s back to suffocation! Season 2 of Silo began on Friday November 15, 2024. The heroine Juliette, played by Rebecca Ferguson, was finally able to leave her original silo to explore the outside environment. This does not mean that the danger ends for her, quite the contrary. From this first episode, Juliette faced one of her worst fears.
Get your head out of the water
Episode 1 introduces a new silo. Once inside, to continue her journey, she cannot use the old bridge which has broken. She then has to use a rope to rappel down. But luck was not there, because the rope was not strong enough. Juliette therefore finds herself falling into the lower levels of the silo, to the now flooded bottom.
Although the water is “flat” and presents no danger, it panics and struggles to rise to the surface, where it becomes mired in chaotic movements. She’s clearly drowning. It is after heavy efforts and a good anxiety attack that she manages to extricate herself from the water (following up with a second anxiety attack which is quite understandable given the context).
There is nothing gratuitous or trivial about this sequence. We must remember Juliette’s complicated relationship with water. The subject had been addressed in season 1, since in silo 18, where she lived, she had never been exposed to sufficient quantities of water to learn to swim. She therefore never learned to swim, which even led her to develop a phobia, which was again shown to us in season 1. Certainly, she had managed to overcome this fear in the engine room at the era, but it was still pure survival.
This fear of water is of course not a coincidence: it is part of the narrative qualities of Silo. Swimming represents, by definition, the ability to raise your head above the water, to breathe on the surface. That the heroine – and the other characters in silo 18 – do not succeed, resonates as a symbol of a humanity which is suffocating, which is not master of its movements, which is not autonomous, without ceases to be agonizing, head underwater. For an inaccessible surface and serenity in the face of the lies and dangers of this post-apocalyptic world.
However, Juliette has no choice. She has to survive and always finds a solution. We know that she will once again be confronted with a pool in which she will have to swim at all costs, the director having shared an extract from season 2 where Rebecca Ferguson is completely immersed.
Source: www.numerama.com
