Apple TV’s futuristic climate show is already coming true
When the futuristic climate series Extrapolations premiered on Apple TV in March, its opening episode depicted a New York City whose skies had turned orange from wildfire smoke — in the year 2037. So when the skies really did turn an apocalyptic orange last week as wildfire smoke from Canada suffocated the city, more than a few of the show's fans had a flashback, or at least a flash-forward.
Over eight interconnected episodes, Meryl Streep, Kit Harington, Sienna Miller and other members of Extrapolations' A-list cast confront an increasingly grim future as climate change transforms a 2037 existence not unlike our own into a 2070 hellscape, where exposure to the sun can be fatal and no one leaves their house without an oxygen tank. Scott Z. Burns, the show's creator and executive producer, has said he wanted to set the series far enough in the future for today's worsening climate trends to play out, but not so distant that the impacts would seem implausible to a 2023 audience.
No chance of that these days. In Extrapolations, one of the characters born in New York City during the 2037 wildfires develops debilitating “summer heart” from smoke exposure in utero. Today, doctors in Australia are treating “bushfire babies,” children born during the catastrophic fires of 2019-2020 with chronic pulmonary conditions.
Burns, who largely shot Extrapolations in New York, spoke to Bloomberg Green about telling a future that seems foretold.
Has climate reality already caught up to the future you depicted?.
Well, I think that climate reality is recurring. When we shot that first season, there were some fires in Canada that affected the air quality in New York. I remember one day driving into our studios taking a photo of the skyline, which
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