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Heather Graham stars in the first episode of Extrapolations, which envisions a chaotic and bleak near future triggered by climate change.

Heather Graham stars in the first episode of Extrapolations, which envisions a chaotic and bleak near future triggered by climate change.

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LOS ANGELES – When Covid-19 hit the news in early 2020, there was

a surge of renewed interest in Contagion,

a 2011 Hollywood movie about a respiratory virus sweeping the world and triggering chaos, panic-buying, quarantines and a rush to develop a vaccine.

And the writer of that seemingly prescient film, which became one of the most streamed movies in March 2020, has now created a television drama. Extrapolations envisions a similarly chaotic and bleak near future – this time triggered by climate change.

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