‘Extrapolations’ Review: Scott Z. Burns Makes His ‘Contagion’ for Climate Change

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 fittingly titled Apple TV+ series Extrapolations is one such work.

Created by Scott Z.

Burns, who previously wrote 2011’s fortuitous pandemic thriller Contagion, the story grounds itself in the lived experiences of various characters scattered throughout a world in peril.

Though it doesn’t have the kinetic energy of other recent works tackling this crisis, such as the outstanding upcoming film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, it pushes us to

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