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‘Extrapolations’ shows how hard it is to make climate drama must-watch TV

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In the second episode of Apple TV+’s new climate drama Extrapolations, a scientist sits in an underwater base, communicating with a humpback whale.

The year is 2046 – all of the Extrapolations episodes are named after a year in a future, brutally warmed climate – and the whale appears to be the last of her kind alive on the Earth.

Humans have, conveniently, learned to translate whale songs, and the humpback speaks e.e. cummings-esque phrases in the voice of Meryl Streep. “Have you caused some of us to

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