"Despite (or perhaps because of) its overwhelming awfulness, the climate crisis has been oddly underrepresented on stage and screen. Humanity's greatest challenge has often been deemed too much of a downer, too complex or too dull a topic to spawn shows and movies. A burst of recent climate-themed cultural output, however, suggests this may be changing. Weather Girl, a one-woman play about the unraveling of a TV meteorologist who can no longer bear to gloss over climate breakdown in California,"
"Where climate-themed shows and movies once felt the need to be didactic and pious a few years ago I saw an insipid ballet in San Francisco that involved a wobbly polar bear on a shrinking chunk of ice or big budget and dumb, such as The Day After Tomorrow, these modern iterations convey their stories laden with humor, wit and finely painted characterization, as well as doom."
The climate crisis has been underrepresented on stage and screen because it was seen as too depressing, complex, or dull to inspire productions. Recent cultural output signals change with works like Weather Girl, Kyoto, The Pelican, and the Netflix miniseries Families Like Ours depicting evacuations and climate-ravaged settings. Modern climate narratives favor humor, wit, and finely painted characterization alongside doom rather than didactic piety or spectacle. Mainstream TV news largely ignores climate even while covering fires and floods that the crisis exacerbates. Creators are moving toward nuanced storytelling that leans into complications instead of only apocalyptic tones.
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