# Extrapolations (2023)

> Eight interlinked stories spanning 33 years show how a changing climate reshapes the lives of families, workers and believers.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/114146

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 51 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: science fiction, drama
- Created by: Scott Z. Burns
- Network: Apple TV
- Cast: Daveed Diggs, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Matthew Rhys, Meryl Streep, David Schwimmer, Edward Norton, Indira Varma
- TMDB rating: 6.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13821126/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: melancholic, sober, reflective, unsettling, intimate

## What critics say

Reviewers and audiences found the climate-change anthology ambitious and timely but uneven, with its eight interlocking stories praised for emotional stakes and a star-studded cast while the scattered structure left many episodes feeling underdeveloped.

## Synopsis

Extrapolations (2023) is an American anthology miniseries created by Scott Z. Burns for Apple TV. Its eight interconnected episodes, each roughly 51 minutes, follow different people across a span of more than three decades as the planet's warming climate reshapes daily life. Daveed Diggs, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Matthew Rhys, Meryl Streep, David Schwimmer, Edward Norton and Indira Varma appear across the chapters, each drawn into a different collision of work, faith, marriage and survival. The engine of the series is the slow pressure of environmental change on ordinary decisions: a family weighing whether to stay put, a professional whose career depends on a dwindling resource, a believer testing their certainties against disaster. Rather than spectacle, each episode builds from quiet domestic detail, so the disasters arrive as accumulating consequences. The tone is sober, melancholic and reflective, with flashes of unease that never tip into pure horror. Viewers who enjoy the ensemble reach of Cloud Atlas, the speculative unease of Black Mirror, and the near-future social drama of Years and Years will find resonance here. The show is best suited to adults drawn to thoughtful, character-driven speculative fiction about the future of the planet.

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