Into the rest of the 21st century

February 16, 2023 6:34 AM

Originally titled Gaia The trailer for Extrapolations, an upcoming Apple TV streaming series, appeared. It has an impressive cast.

From the official site:

...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. And when the fate of humanity is up against a ticking clock, the battle between courage and complacency has never been more urgent. Are we brave enough to become the solution to our own undoing before it’s too late?

posted by doctornemo (9 comments total)

The Inner Light: The Series

Hopefully it has a better ending.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 6:50 AM on February 16, 2023 [2 favorites]

This is a good thing. There cannot be too much of this good thing. I base that on the historical precedents set by works of fiction which changed the world: like books by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, George Orwell, Toni Morrison. (Other examples?) Of course every work won't be a classic, but the more we produce the better chance we have of duplicating some of that success.
posted by TreeRooster at 7:25 AM on February 16, 2023 [6 favorites]

Immediately brought to mind the excellent (though quite stressful to watch) Years and Years, which is well worth a watch.
posted by msbrauer at 7:32 AM on February 16, 2023 [4 favorites]

Immediately brought to mind the excellent (though quite stressful to watch) Years and Years, which is well worth a watch.

Agreed with all of the above, and adding the trigger warning for my fellow Threads-scarred folk that there's a nuclear blast in the first episode.

My then-roommate was showing it to me and forgot to tell me about that, and was a bit alarmed when I ran out of the room to go get my Snoopy plushie and go fetal-position with it for the next several minutes after seeing that.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:14 AM on February 16, 2023 [1 favorite]

I hope this is good and not another heavy handed star studded mess like Don’t Look Up. I don’t like having to feel guilty artistically panning things that advance important issues I’m passionate about. Some of my friends were actively mad when they asked me about it and I gave it 1 1/2 mehs.
posted by caviar2d2 at 8:43 AM on February 16, 2023 [1 favorite]

This was created by the same guy who wrote Contagion, which was quite popular at the beginning of the pandemic. It's an anthology series, but it's also only two directors, so who knows. I'm interested.

Actually, AppleTV is hitting it out of the park as far as having series coming up this spring that I'm interested in checking out. A lot of things that look really original, movies and series. They're also doing the Tetris movie discussed in another thread just recently!
posted by hippybear at 12:17 PM on February 16, 2023 [2 favorites]

heavy handed star studded mess like Don’t Look Up.

But I liked Don't Look Up....
posted by Pendragon at 1:29 AM on February 17, 2023

On the surface, this series sounds a lot like Kim Stanley Robinson's "New York 2140."
posted by wolpfack at 9:16 AM on February 17, 2023

We need an idiocracy remake in which everyone becomes dumber from doing their education under higher indoor CO2 levels and other pollutants, ala "The fraction of carbon dioxide [we breathe] just crossed 400 parts per million, and high-end estimates extrapolating current trends suggest 1,000 ppm by 2100. At that concentration .. human cognitive ability declines by 21 percent.”
posted by jeffburdges at 7:51 PM on February 19, 2023