Just minutes into his latest six-part docuseries The End is Nye, Bill Nye gets drenched in a rainstorm. Later on, a hurricane sends him hurtling into a car’s windshield. In a later episode, he explodes in a fiery inferno after being struck by debris from a wayward comet.
Don’t worry: Nye, the science educator and engineer who became a household name in the 90’s thanks to his much-loved Bill Nye the Science Guy show, meets his (fictional) demise in every single episode. In a recent interview with Discover, Nye explains the apocalyptic framing behind his biggest-budget series yet: “We need to scare people.”
Bill Nye on The End is Nye
The series, released on Peacock in 2022, walks viewers through six scientifically-plausible mass disasters — from the eruption of a supervolcano to a global blackout triggered by a coronal mass ejection, in which electrically charged particles from the sun would create a magnetic field that shuts off power across the planet.
