Climate change is the defining problem of our time, not merely for the threat it poses to the stability of our civilization but for how sticky and hard to pin down it is, in conversation or in art.…
Climate change is the defining problem of our time, not merely for the threat it poses to the stability of our civilization but for how sticky and hard to pin down it is, in conversation or in art. By definition, it’s all around us — the climate is what we’re soaking in, no matter where we are. Its pervasiveness makes it somewhat unimaginable: What would it be like for everything to change? The mind reels; the problem gets put away.
At times, the show leans into the unknowability and the insignificance of its characters: The first installment includes a wry little vignette about a monstrous hotelier who is simply begging for a comeuppance at the hands of cruel and uncaring Mother Nature.
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