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Extrapolations review: Can this climate sci-fi make us care?

Earth's climate is reeling out of control in this eight-part sci-fi series stuffed with A-listers. From one of the minds behind An Inconvenient Truth, it is heavy on messaging, but lacks some focus

By Jon O'Brien

22 March 2023

Episode 1. Sienna Miller in "Extrapolations," premiering March 17, 2023 on Apple TV+.

Sienna Miller joins a star‑studded cast as an animal conservationist

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Extrapolations
Scott Z. Burns
Apple TV+

SIENNA MILLER as a conflicted animal conservationist. Kit Harington as a smarmy tech overlord. Meryl Streep as, erm, among other things, the voice of a humpback whale. If star power could be converted into energy, then Extrapolations from Apple TV+ would have enough to fuel the national grid.

The brainchild of Scott Z. Burns, producer of An Inconvenient Truth, the interweaving eight-part drama gives its ridiculously stacked cast (I haven’t even mentioned Forest …

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