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7 Best Shows Like ‘Silo’ To Watch If You Love the Series

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Silo is a sci-fi dystopian thriller drama series created by FX’s Justified famed Graham Yost. Based on the Silo trilogy of novels by Hugh Howey, the Apple TV+ takes us to a dystopian future where the last ten thousand surviving humans live in a deep underground Silo, and they are told that the outside world is uninhabitable but skepticism about that statement is baked in from the start both in the characters and the audience. The one rule in the Silo everybody has to follow is not to say that someone wants to go outside because if they do they will be sent outside to die alone. Silo stars Rebecca Ferguson, Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Common, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Avi Nash, and Rick Gomez. So, if you loved the thrilling mystery, dark dystopian world, and compelling characters in Silo here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Snowpiercer (AMC+ & Prime Video Add-On)

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Snowpiercer is a post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller drama series created by Josh Friedman and Graeme Manson. Based on both the 2013 film of the same name by Bong Joon-ho and the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette, the TNT series is set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland and it follows the surviving humans on a perpetually moving train, where we witness class warfare, social injustice, and the fight for survival. Snowpiercer stars Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Iddo Goldberg, Susan Park, and Katie McGuinness.

The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video)

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The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian tragedy thriller drama series created by Bruce Miller. Based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, the Hulu series is set in a dystopian world where fertile women are forced to serve as child-bearing slaves and it follows June, a fertile woman living as a concubine to a Gileadan officer and his wife. While she is forced to serve the Gileadan officer and his wife and follow their rules, she hopes to live a free life with her daughter. The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, Max Minghella, and O-T Fagbenle.

The Man in the High Castle (Prime Video)

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The Man in the High Castle is an alternate-history dystopian drama series created by Frank Spotnitz. Based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick, the Prime Video series is set in an alternate history where World War II turned out differently and the Axis powers won the war after which the United States was divided into three parts. People have lost all hope in the face of oppression but a film containing pictures of another world that is free brings a ray of light. The Man in the High Castle stars Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans, Luke Kleintank, DJ Qualls, Joel de la Fuente, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Rufus Sewell.

The Leftovers (Max & Prime Video Add-On)

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The Leftovers is a supernatural psychological mystery thriller drama series created by Damon Lindelöf and Tom Perrotta. Based on Perrotta’s 2011 novel of the same name, the HBO series is set three years after a global event known as the “Sudden Departure” in which 2% of the global population disappeared and it follows a group of residents from Mapleton, New York as they struggle to rebuild their lives after losing loved ones. The Leftovers stars Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, Margaret Qualley, Carrie Coon, Emily Meade, Amanda Warren, Ann Dowd, and Michael Gaston.

The 100 (Netflix & Rent on Prime Video)

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The 100 is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi action drama series created by Jason Rothenberg. Based on the young adult novel series of the same name by Kass Morgan, The CW series is set a century later after a nuclear conflict that destroyed the world and it follows 100 young adults who were sent by the surviving humans from a space habitat to check if Earth is habitable again. The 100 stars Eliza Taylor, Paige Turco, Thomas McDonell, Eli Goree, Marie Avgeropoulos, Bob Morley, Kelly Hu, and Christopher Larkin.

Severance (Apple TV+)

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Severance is a sci-fi psychological mystery thriller drama series created by Dan Erickson. The Apple TV+ series follows Mark Scout, a Lumon Industries employee who agreed to a medical procedure known as “severance”, in which his work memories are separated from his personal memories. But his life turns upside down when a friend from his work meets him in real life and warns him about the work he is doing at Lumon. Severance stars Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette, and Michael Chernus.

Westworld (Rent on Prime Video)

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Westworld is a dystopian sci-fi Western drama series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Based on the 1973 film of the same name by Michael Crichton, the HBO series follows is set in a futuristic Western-themed amusement park known as Westworld, and it sees visitors enacting their deepest and darkest fantasies with the help of automatons, but when the robots begin malfunctioning all hell breaks loose. Westworld stars Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, and Luke Hemsworth.

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