'Extrapolations' gets so close to doing climate change drama right, writes judyberman
a remarkable amount of ground, traversing the globe from Washington, D.C. to Antarctica to the Middle East and registering the implications of an unprecedented cataclysm on technology, geopolitics, the economy, and human rights. But such a broad scope necessitates some unfortunate choices about what—and whom—to omit. For unknown reasons, political polarization in the U.S. and the rise of authoritarian governments around the world no longer seem to be factors by Burns’ 2030s.
While the series often works beautifully on the level of individual scripts, characters, and performances, it simply can’t meet the challenge Burns sets up for himself, of extrapolating the next half-century in world events. No TV series could. Which might be why it overindulges in gratuitous set pieces, like a tonally dissonant sequence in whichbreakout Diggs sings and dances to “Singin’ in the Rain,” before finally defaulting to truisms about human nature.
Still, those who think art is as crucial as science to our species’ survival would like to believe no issue is too big for fiction.mistakes realism for insight, but at least it also lays a solid foundation for the many inevitable works on this topic to come. Maybe great art about climate change is only a time jump away.
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