Extrapolations

It is an ambitious science fiction story, but it makes room for the more intimate moments of humanity.

In oftentimes harrowing fashion, "Extrapolations" looks at one possible future while offering enough scientific know-how to keep the series exciting even in the bleakest of times.

You may tire of the message Scott Burns is trying to get across by the end of Extrapolations‘ eight episodes, but there are moments in there that will be affecting and effective. You just may have to try your luck to find them.

Extrapolations does sometimes compel. But when opposing speechifiers go at it hammer and tongs about causes, effects and solutions, it can drag like a long night at the debating soc.

This lack of character development renders the show’s big, dramatic confrontations inert.

The show works a bit like a breezy and brisk collection of linked short stories, constantly moving forward, continually showing new consequences of our own inaction. Keeping the characters flat and underserved, though, makes the lavishly depicted world they inhabit feel less like a matter of concern. ... Clumsy in its delivery of information, “Extrapolations” is also maudlin where “Black Mirror” is icy.

Extrapolations is draining in all the wrong ways: It’s dull and disappointing from the start to its bitter, seemingly full-circle finish.

Just awful. I had such high hopes given the quality of the actors that signed up for this. Perhaps they had high hopes too but it fails at every level. The producers had a golden opportunity to show how life of various levels of society would be affected by climate change and thy failed miserably. Each episode is relatively disconnected from the prior one although some are somewhat linked. Each one seems worse than the other. I used to like Forrest Whitaker but not in this. He seems absolutely amateurish. Perhaps you can "credit" the stilted, not credible dialogue, but notwithstanding that, the recitation of his lines, his gestures and his expressions are high school level at best. It is literally painful to watch.. We may struggle through the final episode with John Snow for giggles.

Updated: Out of 7 episodes so far, only the 5th, is well done and interesting. The rest being predictable and preaching candy wrapped in great actors names, is mostly very uneven and wasted opportunity. First episode is maybe still ok as an introduction, second has great ideas there, but somehow the end us wasted opportunity (underwhelming and predictable). Third one instead of showing destruction of Miami is wasted on other stuff (don't want to spoil it), the ending is so disgustingly sugary that it offends intelligence of viewers. Some people would stop watching the series here. Fourth episode is wasted for clumsy rehearsal of some white house procedural drama, flashy but pretty empty and again predictable. Only the 5th one has something to say and show. Happens in India, shows the heatwave effects (so called wetbulb effect) and how horrible is for average human beings. And first time in the series really shows what it means for majority of the people in the world - working class, poor from outiside developed countries. So far we could think that climate change only touches lifes of middle class from the West, and it's really more of the question if you can buy more comfortable mode of survivial. Till that episode it doesn't include working class and poor (even poor from US and Europe) as if they would not exist or they would be a mere background like wild animals going to extinct. 5th episode is well made, has finally flavor of something authentic (people speaking and showing their feeling in their mother language - still it's being reduced because apparently American viewers cannot read subtitles) and shows mortal danger and helplessness of climate changes. That could be shown in Miami episode, but choose to go for some moral arguments and preaching. In India we have at least a glimpse of how mortifying and real the future might be. If antalogu would keep 5th episode formula would get 9 stars, but for all the too obvious preachiness, wasted ideas and focusing on middle class sanitized troubles, it get generous 3 stars. Can only hope that the rest of episodes are different. Updated: After watching now 7 episodes - it's pretty obvious that for creators the only people worth making series about are the ones from rich West, and global South is just some non-existent background, mentioned briefly only on radio/news. Even animals are getting more attention than real people living in India, Bangladesh, African countries etc. Dropping my to 1 - there is literally one episode happening in Global South. Shame.

More climate change propaganda. That is all you need to know to keep you from watching it.

Remember when the tone-deaf celebrities banded together to 'inspire' us by singing Imagine? It seems like someone in Hollywood saw that and thought, "This is how we'll save the world!" by having a bunch of out-of-touch, pampered actors and producers tell us how WE need to do more to protect THEIR lifestyle.

Utterly idiotic radical propaganda. Television networks should be disgusted for infecting this deranged **** on the masses.