'What might our lives look like decades from now, when the effects of climate change have progressed even further? That's the premise of 'Extrapolations,' Apple TV+'s star-studded series creator from Scott Z. Burns,' writes Tribune critic Nina_Metz.
Kit Harington plays a cold-blooded billionaire captain of industry who profits off climate change in"Extrapolations.”
There’s a lot to admire about the show’s ambitions, even if they’re not fully realized. The psychological fallout is palpable. A low-level despair and resignation has settled over everything and you might argue that’s happened in the real world already. You would be right, but it’s not hard to imagine that deepening. Even so, life goes on somewhat unabated for those lucky enough to have a financial cushion. People still have dinner parties. They still fall in love.
The series is conspicuously focused on either the comfortably middle class or the ultrarich, the latter of whom are forever manipulating the levers of power and global resource management. The people who experience the worst effects of these decisions, losing access to water or livable environments, are mostly an abstraction. It makes you wonder who the target audience for this series actually is — and whether it will have its intended effect.
To that end, I was surprised that environmental racism isn’t woven into these different narratives. When IBurns a couple years back about “Contagion,” we talked about the pandemic disproportionately affecting the lives of Black people and other people of color — and that the movie failed to consider this. I asked if he had to do it over again, would he include that as a narrative? “A hundred percent,” he told me.
But the episode is also funny and I think this is key. The rabbi’s mother considers taking a “relo” deal — relocating north where temperatures are cooler — and he tries to convince her otherwise. You love it in Miami, he says. And your doctor is here. “I’m moving to Milwaukee actually,” her doctor pipes in. “I took the relo deal — not bad, I can share the details if you’d like. They threw in an assault rifle as an incentive.
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