Enjoy a century of climate change in the trailer for Apple’s star-studded Extrapolations
The hits keep coming trailer for Apple’s extremely star-packed climate change drama Extrapolations
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Look, everyone knows climate change is killing us. If the extreme weather doesn’t get you, then surely the acid rain will. So with no end to the unnecessary destruction caused by climate change, primarily due to the deceitful and disastrous efforts by craven politicians and profit-hungry business leaders, Apple TV+ figured they might as well have the writer of Contagion extrapolate on what awaits us. Hey, Scott Z. Burns already nailed the pandemic.
What we didn’t expect was this many famous people signing up to be in Apple’s eight-part, decade-spanning global warming drama Extrapolations. Told over a 33-year time span, the series waxes theoretical on what awaits us in the not-too-distant future—namely, how much worse the extreme weather will get and what it will take to slow it down. Thankfully, Apple employed enough star power to run a small country. Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs, Edward Norton, Diane Lane, Yara Shahidi, Matthew Rhys, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer, Keri Russell, Adarsh Gourav, Indira Varma, Marion Cotillard, Forest Whitaker, and even more people appear in this thing.
Here’s the synopsis:
“Extrapolations” is a bracing limited series that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives. Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe will explore the intimate, life-altering choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population. Every story is different, but the fight for our future is universal. Are we brave enough to become the solution to our own undoing before it’s too late?
The first three episodes of Extrapolations hit Apple TV+ on March 17, with new episodes premiering every Friday.
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Are we brave enough to become the solution to our own undoing before it’s too late?Spoiler alert: nope.
Beat me to it!
that is some awful color grading in the header image.
There seem to be different color palettes in use in the trailer. Some are very sepia like that one, a few are grey, and some are very warm and bright. It probably is being used to show different times, places, or even possible futures.
That looks a lot like California at 12 noon downwind during a fire.
The hits keep coming trailer for Apple’s extremely star-packed climate change drama ExtrapolationsI’m pretty sure you’re supposed to put show titles in italics.
The music score sounds just dreadful. It’s got a weird Stranger Things vibe over imagery that contained no suspense at all. Most of the “stars” in the trailer seem to be portraying characters I think I will care nothing about. It’s like Don’t Look Up; self indulgent, preachy and condescending but without the yuks. Of course there are some who say Don’t Look Up didn’t have any yuks either.
There are some cringe lines (“The future is now.”) It def has kind of a self-important feel to it. Def not optimistic on this one. I HATED Don’t Look Up for the reasons you stated. Even worse it was not funny.
Loving that climate change!
no one cares
A star-packed cast! And also David Schwimmer.