Bill Nye Wants to Scare You About the End of the World

Science educator Bill Nye reflects on his newest series ‘The End Is Nye,’ the success of NASA’s DART mission and how he stays optimistic about fighting climate change.

By Alex Orlando
May 1, 2023 7:30 PMMay 23, 2023 8:28 PM
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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.


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