Extrapolations, from 'Contagion' writer Scott Z. Burns, examines the climate crisis far into the future with a sense of clear-eyed urgency. Our review:
There is nothing quite as demoralizing as waking up day after day knowing that the world is sliding further and further toward climate catastrophe. This is not something that any one person alone is having to deal with; a warming planet has and will continue to impact us all. It makes sense that more stories being told on screen would start to seek to grapple with this looming threat and the collective ripple effects that it will have.
The opening episode shows how the leaders of the world essentially punt having to make any hard decisions down the road once more, capitulating to catastrophe as something that will happen later and is for someone else to deal with. We then see how this takes shape and form over the subsequent decades. It sounds like it can be quite grim viewing, and it often is. At the same time, its pessimism is intertwined with hints of optimism sprinkled throughout.
The episodes towards the end can be more than a bit awkward, even getting rather goofy in a way that can take some getting used to, but these tonal swings still manage to work. Just as things can be rather dire and depressing for those most impacted, the vapidity of others more protected from these worst impacts will always be present. The juxtaposition and contradictions of society end up being the point.
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