Ep. 302: Don’t Miss This Excellent Series that Few Have Seen! (feat. Scott Z. Burns)

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Michael Moore

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Mike’s guest today is filmmaker Scott Z. Burns — the writer and director of the brilliant and powerful streaming series on Apple TV+ — EXTRAPOLATIONS. This anthology series of 8 episodes tells 8 separate stories of what life will be like over the next few decades on our planet as the climate catastrophe gets worse. Starring Meryl Streep, Diane Lane, Edward Norton, Forest Whitaker, and many others. Do not miss this!

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Binge all 8 episode of Scott's brilliant anthology series Extrapolations for on AppleTV+ :

https://tv.apple.com/us/show/extrapolations/umc.cmc.4uoqxmxlnipm9zsc88bkjyjx4

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0:00.0	This is Rumble with Michael Moore and I'm Michael Moore and welcome everyone.
0:23.5	So we have with us here today on Rumble, the creator of this series I've been talking
0:29.5	about now for a number of months. Maybe the best thing that I've seen on TV in the last year.
0:38.4	He wrote contagion a good decade or more before a COVID came along. He wrote and directed this
0:46.4	incredible film that we've discussed called the report, a dramatic version of the Senate committee
0:53.5	that held the investigation to figure out what was going on during the Bush administration with
0:58.2	the black sites with the torture and this series. It's on Apple Plus TV. It's called Extrapolations.
1:09.8	I'm showing the first three episodes of it in my film festival because it plays like great cinema.
1:18.2	It's an anthology series and when I was growing up these were somewhat common on television.
1:24.6	Maybe you've heard of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour where every week it was a new story like a small film
1:32.4	and that's what Extrapolations is. It's eight episodes but it's not episodic TV. There is a
1:37.7	brand new story every week. The extent of this begins the first episode in the year I believe 2036.
1:48.4	The last episode takes place in the year 2070. So while Extrapolations is set in the quote future,
1:56.4	it starts in the very near future like 13 years from right now and there have been great documentaries
2:04.4	made about the collapse of our planet. I haven't seen anything to match this that has used fiction,
2:13.8	drama, this anthology series mode here with this particular issue and been able to tell such a powerful
2:24.4	story. I can't tell you how many times I've teared up watching these eight stories. Now some of them
2:33.6	characters that you are introduced to in the first story will call it the episode first episode.
2:39.8	You will see again maybe three or four episodes down the road. Some of them not to the last episode.
2:45.7	Some you'll see only once the actors that Scott convinced to do this.
2:52.7	I mean it just TV doesn't get this good. Meryl Streep is in it.
2:58.8	Kit Harrington who played John Snow on Game of Thrones. He's the supposedly the guy who's
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