Tag: Extrapolations
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‘Extrapolations’ Scott Z. Burns on His Researched Portrayal of Climate Change
In the Apple TV+ series, Extrapolations, creator Scott Z. Burns focuses on the ongoing climate crisis and its effects on the near future. Like his 2011 thriller, Contagion, which presented a disturbing virus outbreak not unlike the one we would experience less than a decade later, Extrapolations looks at the consequences humans are beginning to…
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‘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…
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‘Extrapolations’ TV Review: Apple TV+’s Star-Studded Mini-Series Offers A Terrifying Vision of The Future
In 2020, Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion” became much more than just a vision of a potential future. As the Covid-19 pandemic dragged on, viewers pointed to how much the film’s writer Scott Z. Burns got right about a world-reshaping pandemic. And, if anything, he underestimated how dumb some people would be about it, but that’s another…