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Consider Hollywood’s evolving villains over the years: Nazis, Russians, South African white nationalists, Middle Eastern terrorists, South American drug lords, dinosaurs, aliens, Wall Street cutthroats, and, now, Tim Robbins. It’s Robbins as creepy “Bernard,” a dour IT director in “Silo,” an AppleTV+ sci-fi series about thousands of people living underground for reasons they do not understand — and that Bernard is loath to explain. An IT boss as bad guy (so far) taps into our growing cultural anxiety about technology, be it a threat to jobs or the expansion of artificially generated misinforma...