Detailed Explanation
The Season 1 finale blew my mind. Juliette is sentenced to clean—go outside and die like everyone else. But her friends in Mechanical give her heat tape from the old days, better than IT's sabotaged version. Outside, her suit holds. She sees the truth: the world is toxic, the dead cleaners litter the ground (they all walked toward what they thought was a beautiful landscape), and in the distance... there are other silos. The entire mythology of the silo—that they're the last survivors—is a lie. I had to pause the episode just to process it.