Silo's creators say their apocalyptic sci-fi has become uncomfortably timely in season 3

“In the books there was talk of a mission to Iran, so we just kept that in” The first two seasons of Apple TV's hit science fiction series Silo are set in a dark world where 10,000 people are crammed in a massive bunker together after an unknown disaster made the outside world uninhabitable. The season 2 finale finally hinted at what happened, with a flashback to a near-future Washington, DC, abuzz with news that Iran had hit the United States with a dirty bomb. Season 3 spends a lot of time building up that plot, starting with a counterattack on Iran in the season premiere. While the show is an adaptation of the novels Hugh Howey began in 2011, Silo’s showrunner and stars say the author’s vision of the future now feels a bit too realistic. “We had no control over when [season 3] was going to come out, that it would be during a war with Iran, but in the books there was talk of a mission to Iran, so we just kept that in,” showrunner Graham Yost told Polygon during a virtual interview. “One weird thing is we named the operation Righteous Hammer, and the bombing mission last June was called Midnight Hammer. It’s like, Well great. Now we’ve got to change that. That sounds a little too