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Animals would go extinct and it is a real possibility. This series isn't about creating conflicts, drama, or make you entertained. It's a series of a very possibly outcome on the near future.

The story itself isn't much to be talked about. What drawn me in is the fact that this COULD happen. This is so depressing if you invest your time to watch it and probably super boring if you just half-heartedly watch it.

Skip it if you want twisting plot and dramatic endings. Don't watch it if you are into fancy special effects. I kept on getting up to move around so that I feel somehow distracted a bit because this is so depressing and heavy. Maybe it's just me and maybe you would feel differently.

In the second episode of Extrapolations, we follow Rebecca, played by Sienna Miller, and her son Ezra. The story is set around 11 years after the first episode, and shortly after many of Earth's megafauna have gone extinct, after ocean acidification has played out and the krill are all but gone, and the marine ecosystems on top have collapsed.

Rebecca is some sort of conservationist, who communicates with the last individuals of a species. Her son is stricken by a heart condition bought about in the womb by the soot and wildfires which you might recall from Episode 01. Rebecca is tasked with conversing with the last ever female whale as it searches for an elusive mate. Again we see themes of corporate malice, inaction over climate change, and the expectation that the next generation will clean up today's problems.

The backdrop includes lots of subtle sci-fi elements, so again if you're interested in near-future sci-fi dystopia, and interested in nature, this might be one for you. However unlike. Say, Black Mirror, this series does feel a little less hyperbolic, more grounded in reality. It seems like we're not looking at a parallel universe; we're looking at our own future. Or at least a single perspective and spyglass on that future. The conversation hints at a message; if we don't change, our trajectory wont change.

Extrapolations is a long, drawn-out episode that follows Becca and Ezra as they go about their days. The issues across the globe are subtly developed, but the story lacks a hook to keep viewers invested. There is nothing to keep them invested, especially with how the episode has played out. Hopefully the chapters ahead can improve. Becca and Ezra head out together to brave another day in 2046, an "Orange Day" for the pair. Ezra has a condition called Summer Heart, which is linked to his weak heart. Becca and Ezra head out together to brave another day in 2046. Becca speaks to Marco over a hologram about beached whales on the beaches. She then gets a helicopter to Bahia Malaga, where forest fires are still raging. Becca then works on a project called Tomorrowzoo at a rig, where she is still an employee of Menagerie2100. The ocean temperature is rising and the food column is starting to collapse. Becca uses whale song to communicate with a female whale down below. There isn't enough food for the humpback whales to survive, so Eve needs to find the male of her species in order to procreate and continue to prosper. Hendricks, from the Southern Hemisphere Project Resources Management department, is working in lieu of Christina, Becca's boss, to speed things up. Hendricks has been coming in during the night to speed things up, and Christina is Becca's boss. Hendricks isn't sure about Becca's voice avatar she's using, believing she's getting too emotionally attached to the whale. Becca is shocked when she learns that Hendricks has been playing a dead male mating call to lure the whale in. Christina shuts her down, but Becca isn't taking no for an answer and heads back to the "Alpha" Oil rig. She sabotages the broadcast and admits the truth to the whale, that there's no male and all of it is just a recording. Hendricks and Christina bring Becca into the office and question what she's done. Becca and Ezra decide to go and see the final whale in its natural habitat, where it gives a splash as a way of saying hello. Becca is debriefed and moved to Alaska for her next job.