WARNING! This article contains spoilers for Extrapolations.
Extrapolations may share some common ground with other climate change-centric movies and TV series, but it avoids one major Hollywood disaster movie cliché. The star-studded climate change drama in Extrapolations begins in the year 2037, where the rising global temperatures and the obliviousness of giant corporations towards climate change are a cause of heavy concern. With this as its foundation, Extrapolations jumps ahead to a new year in the future with each episode and highlights how the global temperature rise gradually spirals into other environmental calamities.
While Extrapolations brims with sociopolitical commentary surrounding the influence of the wealthy on global events and their negligence towards environmental crisis, it also brings relatable human stories to the table that portray how normal people will potentially navigate climate change in the future. Unsurprisingly, despite its inclination towards real-life science, Extrapolations finds its best moments in scenes that are grounded in the small-scale human narratives ensuing far away from the lives of the privileged. By giving significant time to these narratives, especially in episode 5, Extrapolations subverts a complicated cliché.
Most Hollywood disaster movies and shows platform United States as the center of the world, focusing merely on the plights of people living in the west. From Don’t Look Up to Contagion, nearly every disaster-centric Hollywood drama depicts the American response to calamities, even though the imminent climate change condition or disaster in their narratives is being experienced by the entire world — arguably even more so by less privileged third-world nations. While there is nothing inherently wrong with a movie or television show confining its storyline into a fixed location, climate change is a global phenomenon and deserves to be treated that way.
Extrapolations initially does not drift too far west in its initial episodes. However, by centering the story of an entire episode in Mumbai, India, the Apple sci-fi TV show effectively avoids the location cliché. Featuring a roster of Indian characters, the episode walks viewers through the environmental and socio-political impact of the environmental crisis on the country’s lower middle class. While the rest of the series goes back to giving a first-world account of climate change, the little shift in its focus allows Extrapolations to grow above clichéd disaster narratives that only name-drop a few other countries but never call attention to the reality of things beyond the borders of the US.
Global warming’s real-world impact and its consequential calamities will not be limited to the United States. Hence, by breaking the cliché and giving a glimpse of the dire effects of climate change on countries other than the US, Extrapolations presents a more realistic view of the scale of future environmental crises on the planet. This makes Extrapolations more captivating not only because it allows viewers to see environmental issues from the novel perspective of people who do not reside in their immediate surroundings but also because it evokes empathy and demands urgent action by pointing towards the day-to-day climate change struggles faced by people from diverse cultures, countries, and backgrounds.
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