AD-063-ALL · Television · 2023 · 2 seasons
Silo
Graham Yost
The machines
None visible. An automated silo, and the people who maintain machinery nobody fully understands.
What people do all day
Everyone holds an assigned trade for life — mechanic, porter, farmer, IT, Judicial — in a shaft they will never leave. Children are permitted by lottery. The one job nobody volunteers for is cleaning, and it is a death sentence dressed as maintenance.
Pattern
Allocated labour — A system decides what you will do, and people comply — sometimes willingly.
Note
The adaptation of Howey's novel, and better than it on this specific question: the series has the runtime to show shift patterns, the canteen, the handover, the paperwork.
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