doesn’t want you to read the book series — not yet, at least. “I usually try and say [that] sitting right next to [author] Hugh Howey,” the showrunner jokes from his office in Carmel, California. “Buy copies of the book, but don’t read them yet.
” Season two of ‘s premiered on Friday, with episodes rolling out weekly until the Jan. 17, 2025 finale. Yost has made no secret of his departure from the source material, pulling whole episodes out of single sentences in , Howey’s first of three books in the series.
Howey is an executive producer on the show, and by all accounts, is thoroughly pleased with Yost’s work. Season one covered the first half of ; season two will finish it. The remaining two books are and .
“We thought of different structures for season two,” Yost says, entertaining longer and shorter versions of the first book’s story, only settling on the syncing of text and screen when it was clearly the best way to finish. “It’s really looking for the big emotional hook,” Yost says. “And just, frankly, the fun.
What’s the most fun way to end?” In season one, played Juliette Nichols, a mechanic-turned-sheriff living in an underground silo that protects 10,000 people from a toxic world above them. Things went awry when she began investigating the murder of her boyfriend, George (Ferdinand Kingsley), ultimately finishing the season by journeying beyond the silo’s airlocked door and, unlike all who had tried before her, lived to tell t.