Debuting in just a few days Silo‘s highly anticipated second season is a good opportunity to offer the following reminder about the show’s streaming home, Apple TV+.

While it’s true that Apple’s streamer has a small portion of the subscriber base of major streamers like Netflix, there’s really no other streaming service that offers top-tier science fiction programming as consistently as Apple, with shows like Foundation, For all humanity, DisconnectionAnd Silo all of them are among the best titles in the genre that any streamer or network has released in years.

Come on SiloOn Season 2’s premiere date of November 15, it debuted with a perfect 100% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, a nice improvement over Season 1’s score of 88%. That currently gives the show an average critic score of 94% – almost perfect, in other words, and much closer to an appropriate score for the show than the utterly insane audience score of 66%. Seriously, I think some of the Game of Thrones Fans must have walked there Silo or something like that, where you expect big explosions or action-packed scenes. What it offers is thoughtful, slow-paced science fiction, and it’s one of my favorite TV shows right now.

That’s thanks in large part to Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette, an engineer by training who is essentially an extension of the audience. The questions she asks about the silo in which the last of humanity lives as a result of the Apocalypse-scarred wasteland above ground – they are the same questions we would ask if we were in her shoes. She is also sharp, brilliant and resourceful, and believes that anything broken should at least be studied before being thrown away. And so is the situation that has relegated humanity to its desolate silo.

The show is based on Hugh Howey’s New York Times best-selling novel series, and the last we saw in season 1 was Juliette being thrown out of the silo for a “clean up.” It was essentially a death sentence, as we watched others go outside and wipe out the silo’s viewing windows before collapsing and presumably dying. However, Juliette doesn’t just not die. She’s stunned to see what appear to be other silos within walking distance around her, which immediately suggests all kinds of other possibilities about the show’s story (what else was there that we thought we knew would be wrong?)

I’ve started watching press screeners for Apple’s Season 2, and let me just say that the world of Silo is about to get a lot bigger very quickly. For example, Juliette makes her way to another silo, one that appears completely abandoned even though it looks exactly like the one she came from. There is a total of one man with a crazy look in his eye who hides behind a protective door, and he threatens to kill Juliette if she tries to open it. Long story short, I can already tell that the ending of season 2 will give me exactly the same reaction Silo Season 1 did – that it will end, and I will be racing to get my hands on more of Howey’s books, desperate to find out what happens next.