Apple TV's 'Silo' renewed for fourth and final season

Apple TV's Silo is getting a fourth and final season

The dystopian drama Silo has been renewed for a fourth season, which will conclude the series. The show, starring Rebecca Ferguson, is based on Hugh Howey's three-book series but will now run for four seasons on Apple TV+.

Season three is expected in 2026. In the meantime, here are ten other shows that explore similar themes of confined societies and existential mysteries.

Snowpiercer

The TV adaptation of Bong Joon Ho's film evolved into its own clever sci-fi melodrama. It's set in 2026 on a perpetually moving train that houses the last of humanity after the world freezes.

Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly star on opposite sides of a violent class conflict. The show argues there are few true heroes or villains at the end of the world, just people trying to survive.

Streaming: AMC+ or purchase on Prime Video.
Run: 2020 – 2024.

Station Eleven

This miniseries, based on Emily St. John Mandel's novel, follows survivors 20 years after a flu pandemic wipes out most of civilization. It intercuts between the initial outbreak and a traveling theater troupe two decades later.

It's a slow burn that builds into a moving argument for the necessity of art, even in a fight for survival. The show premiered on HBO in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Streaming: Max.
Run: 2021 – 2022.

Pluribus

From Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, this dark comedy stars Rhea Seehorn as one of 13 people immune to an alien virus. The "Joining" transforms the rest of humanity into a peaceful, content hive mind.

Seehorn's character fights to retain her miserable individuality in a world that has traded freedom for bliss. The show is a funny and heartbreaking exploration of what makes us human.

Streaming: Apple TV+.
Run: 2025 – present.

Black Knight

This South Korean series is set in a future Seoul where a comet has rendered the air toxic. A mega-corporation controls access to oxygen, which is doled out by legendary delivery couriers.

Kim Woo-bin stars as a courier known as 5-8, who runs an underground operation to help the poorest citizens, putting him at odds with the corporate overlords.

Streaming: Netflix.
Run: 2023.

Wayward Pines

Based on Blake Crouch's novels, this thriller stars Matt Dillon as a Secret Service agent investigating a disappearance in a seemingly perfect Idaho town. He quickly discovers no one is allowed to leave.

The town, overseen by a ruthless sheriff played by Terrence Howard, holds a dark secret about the state of the outside world. Mysteries pile up in a manner similar to Silo.

Streaming: Hulu.
Run: 2015 – 2016.

Paradise

From This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman, this series reunites him with star Sterling K. Brown. Brown plays a Secret Service agent whose president was assassinated.

He lives in an idyllic suburban town that is later revealed to be an underground bunker, a fancier but no less ominous version of the Silo setting.

Streaming: Hulu.
Run: 2025 – present.

The Rain

This Danish series centers on a virus spread by rainfall that wipes out most of Scandinavia. Two siblings emerge from a bunker six years later to search for safety and their father.

While its "immune person" premise isn't original, the Scandinavian setting provides a unique atmosphere. The three-season story reaches a definitive conclusion.

Streaming: Netflix.
Run: 2018 – 2020.

War of the Worlds

This French-British co-production is a modern, loose adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel. An alien pulse devastates humanity, leaving scattered survivors under constant threat.

Gabriel Byrne and Elizabeth McGovern star as an estranged couple navigating a brutal new world where traumatized people hold dangerous secrets. It's a particularly dark take on the invasion story.

Streaming: MGM+ or purchase on Prime Video.
Run: 2019 – 2022.

Battlestar Galactica

The 2003 reboot treats its premise with deadly seriousness. After synthetic beings called Cylons wipe out humanity's twelve colonies, the last survivors flee on a ragtag fleet of ships.

The show focuses on the political strife between military commander Adama (Edward James Olmos) and President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell) as they search for a new home. It's a seminal sci-fi drama about society in a bottle.

Streaming: Purchase on Prime Video.
Run: 2003 – 2009.

Severance

This critically acclaimed series imagines a biotechnology that surgically separates a person's work and home memories. Employees at Lumon Industries become two different people.

Adam Scott leads a cast including Patricia Arquette and Britt Lower in a dark office satire that explores the horrors of capitalist control and the fragmentation of identity.

Streaming: Apple TV+.
Run: 2022 – present.

Fallout

Based on the video game series, this show is set in a retro-futuristic wasteland 200 years after nuclear war. Ella Purnell stars as a vault dweller who emerges to find her kidnapped father.

The surface world is divided by warring factions and plagued by radiation monsters. Like Silo, it questions the truth behind why people were forced underground.

Streaming: Prime Video.
Run: 2024 – present.

Under the Dome

Based on Stephen King's novel, this series traps an entire town under a mysterious, impenetrable dome. As resources dwindle, social order collapses.

The residents must unravel the mystery of the dome while battling each other for survival. It's another story of a micro-society facing its own apocalypse.

Streaming: Paramount+.
Run: 2013 – 2015.