Apple TV+'s star-studded speculative climate change anthology Extrapolations wastes precious time and resources. roryhasopinions reviews:
Of all the new series polluting a crowded television landscape, the speculative climate change anthologyshould know that our time is precious, and shouldn’t be wasted. Scott Z. Burns, who previously asked a much more urgent and anxiety-inducing “what if?” with, leads Apple TV+’s eight-episode foray into the future of the 21st century, where new technology exploits and humankind’s worsening fears of the planet boiling.
Tracing our society’s battle against various life-threatening climate escalations from 2037 to 2070, the series has a loose structure: a lot of our characters are introduced in a multi-storyline premiere that marks an important climate conference in Tel Aviv; there’s a massive incident at the midpoint that ripples throughout the second half; we close with a confrontation that brings back familiar faces.
It’s a naive writing perspective to think that not only can an industrial complex or political ideology be condensed into a few individuals, and naiver still to think these individuals could ever be accessed on an empathetic level like any other TV character can. Every timeshowcases humanity’s great selfishness with power-hungry, tech-obsessed titans, it just feels phony.
But the problem with peaks like these is that the further into an uninteresting series you go, the more context deadens your enjoyment of any quality television. “The Going Away Party,” even once you ignore its one-act play trappings, can’t be relished like earlier ones can because by this point, you’re over the show completely.
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