On today's episode of Binge, Scott Z Burns, creator, showrunner of

extrapolations on Apple TV Plus. Scott, it's great to have you. Welcome to

Binge. Thanks for the time. Thank you.

The first thing that occurs to me

and just looking at the project is the line between this

and I guess the inspiration you probably got

on inconvenient truth, and it does feel like that was the genesis of this idea?

It certainly hadn't had an impact on me. I had been involved in environmental groups prior to that. When I actually

was working and advertising a long time ago. I volunteered and went to Alaska after the Exxon Valdez.

And so, you know, I've always been interested in climate change.

But an inconvenient truth was an incredible opportunity to work with

Al Gore and to learn the science behind climate change

in the years since then.'ve really thought about what more can I do as a

storyteller.

And so how long did it take you to string out that fictionalization, right?

I mean, putting your head in the mind of a mom

and over multiple time periods, right?

Because you're looking at different gradients

of this process,

hopefully, that we never see.

Yeah, I, we started this probably

about a year before pandemic and we built sort of two or three timelines

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