My comments are based on watching only one episode so perhaps the show improves later on. I will preface by saying that although I imagine anti-environmentalist people will hate this program, I'm not one of them - I entirely agree with its message. Which is why I am lamenting how poor I found it to be. (SPOILER AHEAD??) The business people were shown as monsters in a very cartoonish way, and no doubt some are in real life, but if that were the case, environmentalism would be far easier to get the public up in arms about than it is. The "cheer the hero, hiss the villain" style was off-putting. It seemed like a terrible waste of some really fine actors. What would have been REALLY scary would have been if the greedy business people were shown, instead, as normal, everyday business management folks going about their business of maximizing sharehold profits, even if it means destroying the planet, and thereby demonstrating the banality of evil - to borrow Hannah Arendt's phrase in her book about the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Review of Extrapolations
