The upcoming anthology drama series ‘Extrapolations deals with issues of climate change around the world and navigates the problem through various different perspectives of various people by presenting their everyday life, danger, and possible solution to the rising problem of climate change.
The cast of ‘Extrapolations’ is a star-studded one which includes Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs, Edward Norton, Diane Lane, Matthew Rhys, David Schwimmer, Adarsh Gourav, Indira Varma, Tobey Maguire, Cherry Jones to name some of them. The series is set to be released on March 17, 2023, in the United States.
Following are several other television series taking up the theme of climate change and natural calamities that you might give a try if you are intrigued by the plot of ‘Extrapolations’.
Top 10 Television Series Like Extrapolations.
The Commons – Number of Seasons: 1
The plot of this Australian drama series is set in the near future and revolves around a gifted neuropsychologist named Eadie who is desperately trying to conceive a child. But that does not at all become easy for her as facing the next level of climate change, the world now has become a complicated and hostile place where a child can be brought in.
The eight-episode series is a character-driven thriller that navigates ethical boundaries and the situation of humanity in the task of saving the planet. British actress Joanne Froggatt portrayed Eadie in the series. It premiered on December 25, 2019.
Thin Ice – Number of Seasons: 1
Set in Greenland and Icelandic seas, the plot of this crime thriller tv series is about a Swedish oil exploration vessel being attacked with its crew disappearing which leads an intelligence officer named Liv Hermanson to investigate the Greenland village of Tasiilaq.
The background of this attack is the Arctic Council’s endeavor to agree on banning oil drilling in the Arctic. The series premiered on February 3, 2020.
Years of Living Dangerously – Number of Seasons: 2
This is a documentary tv series dealing with the worldwide problem of climate change and presents people who have firsthand accounts of being affected by the rising issue.
A team consisting of correspondents from news industries and the entertainment world travels all over the world to report on the effects of climate change including global warming and the efforts to fix that.
The series ran from April 13, 2014, to December 14, 2016, on Showtime.
Category 7: The End of the World – Number of Seasons: 1
This made-for-television disaster miniseries is set in the future when Chicago has been destroyed and the weather agencies of the world are desperate to avoid one more disaster as a global plague is predicted by a TV evangelist.
This is a CBS limited series divided into two parts the first of which was released on 6th November and the second on 13th November.
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World – Number of Seasons: 1
This three-part documentary series features the renowned and pioneering figure in the activism to defeat climate change- the young Greta Thunberg who travels from the age of sixteen – seventeen all over the world to convince leaders to take immediate steps in fighting global warming. The series ran from 12th April to 26th April of 2021 on BBC One.
Burn Up – Number of Seasons: 1
This is a BBC / Global drama series navigating the rising issues of climate change and peak oil. The two-episode series was released on June 10, 2008, in Canada, and in the United Kingdom, it ran from 23rd July to 25th July 2008.
Project Earth – Number of Seasons: 1
This is a reality tv series that presents several scientists in groups experimenting with radical ideas and geoengineering methods to stop or at least slow global warming. Kevin O’Leary, Mocean Melvin, and Jennifer L. Languell hosted this reality tv show on Discover Channel.
The series premiered on August 22, 2008, in the United States.
Seat At The Table
In this documentary series, Jack Harries presents the devastating impacts of climate change and the possible innovative solutions to that while confronting powerful people and frontline warriors of climate emergencies.
The series premiered in the United States on October 25, 2021.
Fire Chasers – Number of Seasons: 1
Leonardo DiCaprio produced this English-language Netflix original documentary series that uses intimate firefighting footage to explore the 2016 California fire season and features firefighting men and women facing the dangers of combating flames.
The series premiered on September 8, 2017, on Netflix.
Snowpiercer – Number of Seasons: 3
This is a post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller series that is based on the same named 2013 movie and ‘Le Transperceneige’, the French graphic novel of 1982.
The plot is set seven years after the entire world has turned into a frozen wasteland where the remaining people inhabit an always-moving gigantic train circling the globe. The series ran from May 17, 2020, to March 28, 2022.
