I thought it was an awesome concept with awful writing and an awful delivery.

Production value is excellent.

And acting is great, obviously, since they paid top talent.

And the ideas are interesting.

But it also feels small. They keep focusing on random off-center issues, rather than the central ideas. The basic gist (what will future look like with climate change) has so much potential for great and big ideas, so its odd they focus on random side-issues.

I couldn’t get through the first episode. Ham-handed and cringy. And that’s from someone who believes in climate change.

I watched the first three episodes and it’s pretty brilliant, if a little dry at times.

I think there is just something about the themes of this show that is going to rub Redditors the wrong way.

Redditors seem suspicious of things they believe to be “preachy”. Which is basically anything with a point of view on anything political.

There wouldn’t be half as much hate in this thread if Extrapolations was pitched to audiences as a Black Mirror style anthology that just happened to take place in some vague “near future” or alternate world suffering the effects of climate change.

I think what’s gotten peoples backs up so much is the fact that it’s set in “our world”. And that it’s so explicit in its message and belief that man made climate change will have a negative impact on our lives.

TLDR: Drama shows with real world themes make Redditors feel bad. if this had zombies or some sort of crime family in it, people on Reddit would like it more.

I thought it was hilariously terrible.

I really liked Episode 4, thought it was quite thought provoking and a lot less preachy compared to the three previous ones. In general, I think it's an interesting anthology series overall.

I wanted this to be good but it sucks ass

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i thought the premise was interesting. But I couldnt take it anymore after the first episode. The actual writing of its dialogue is just soooo cringe. The way they talk is not how real people talk. It feels so forced and cringe.

I do enjoy Extrapolations because it's a great cast with outlandish writing. Somebody should have pushed back on some of their choices. There are just so many questions.

Like, why are whales endangered in the future? Did we run out of oil or chemistry and need to hunt them again?

The whale/oceanographer scene was over the top. Both the whale and the woman are mothers with no spouse. The whale talks like a Na'vi with that noble savage wisdom. And the oceanographer chose her own mother's voice for the whale. It's supposed to be poignant, but it's ridiculous.

Some kids are afflicted with "summer heart" because the average global temperature is 2 degrees higher. This is the future, and we see that they have great VR and air conditioning. Kids don't play outside now, why would that change?

The last scene with Matthew Rhys was a karma fantasy written by an Eco-numb skull. Way too perfect.

The third episode's focus on Jewish people in Miami was baffling. I hope this isn't a hot button, but historically, Jewish people tend to be intelligent and to know when it's time to leave. Not the Miami branch. The synagogue has a few inches of water, so they come sloshing in wearing boots. They didn't see this coming yeas ago, and move away?

Extrapolations is fun because the writers are earnest and committed, but had no idea how normal people would view the show.

Nah, it was shit

The first episode was absolutely terrible. Didn’t watch anymore. Please let Tim know that for a certain sum i would praise this to the moon

Good god. It was like sitting in church getting lectured on. Climate change is the biggest challenge for humanity. But sitting through this was like watching Johnathan Majors doing a #MeToo presentation.

Ow. My summer heart.

There's some pretty over-the-top stuff (a man gets killed by a walrus in a "nature's revenge fantasy") and it's far from subtle, but there are storylines underneath all that that feel more real and plausible. Not finished it yet but I'm pretty sure I will despite the issues.

I like the idea of exploring ramifications of climate change over different periods of time, so I will stick with it. I thought the whale episode was pretty solid. Overall though (through episode 3), I have to say I've been disappointed. The tone has been all over the place, and I haven't found any of the characters, besides Sienna Miller, compelling. The storytelling really lacks any propulsion or tension, which is surprising because the creator has written great things before.

I like the concept and vignette style story telling.

I made it halfway through the 3rd episode and just had to turn it off. The writing is awkward and unnatural, no matter how well the high profile cast delivers it. Lot of awkwardly cringy scenes with comical one-dimensional characters - the villains in this show are just laughably simplistic. Episode 2 - beyond the whole talk to whales thing - was filled with really ham-fisted poetics delivered dryly by Meryl Streep. Scenes went on for way too long with this kind of dialogue and it was apparent that the show leaned hard on writing to supplant the lacking visuals. And I'm not asking for a grand CGI fest but the director shot the show in a very plain shaky cam shot-for-shot manner that didn't match the tone or severity of the subject.

“Awesome” & “amazing”. A certain generation has been using these words so often, they’ve lost all meaning. What is amazing anymore, when it’s perpetually tagged onto subpar content regularly

had to google wtf this was cuz i'd never heard of it before now. lol. seems interesting though, I'll probably check it out. too bad kit harrington is in the cast tho.