Season 1 – Extant

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Richard F @RT37046366 Nov 2, 2025 I was intrigued with the story line so I have watched the first season. Unfortunately, the acting is mediocre and Halle Berry has proved that she is not much more than a pretty face. Her character, in particular, makes those decisions that you joke about with friends as to why is she doing it? Not sure I will try to endure the second season. See more Bob S @aremes Sep 13, 2025 One of a strong of novels and films that proposes that machines made to think like humans may become "human" tho not "organic", and therefore have lives as valuable as human lives. This is an interesting idea, even if not original. It is also interesting that the film reconfigures the Jesus "immaculate" conception birth from a different perspective, as an intrusive, imposed implantation without permission from a more powerful being. And that this is just fine, as we see from Halle Berry running around calling it "my baby" every six seconds. But there are big problems with this series. a) Berry's hairstyle is frozen in place throughout b) She's just not believable in this. I rarely say this, but she's just bad. It may partly be the director's fault. She is outshone by the performers in smaller parts c) Empathy with "my baby" is a little unsettling, to say the least, when baby is killing people left and right, and wants to take over the world. Why should we be routing for this kind of motherhood? There are much better pieces of literature wherein mothers know when things are out of hand and have to stop d) how could the bad guy possibly be given clear access to the entire lab and to Ethan? e) how can our heroine simply "fight off" the spell of the spores after 13 episodes of it not being possible? It's too bad more heads didn't huddle over this script to make it much better, because it really does have some good ideas. Two seasons of this nonsense? Not for me. If i hear berry screaming 'my baby' one more time, my own head is going to explode See more Richard L @LargeRichard Aug 30, 2025 Really wanted to like this show. A lot of tired tropes for sure but hey give it a shot. Seems around episode 6 or 7 the writers just gave up. Watch “Species” instead and save 10 hours of your life. See more Tom R @TommyJ1955 Aug 24, 2025 Season 1 is muddled and in many places very boring. The episodes seem to repeat themselves over and over again. Like a trailer on a continuous loop. The budget was astronomical! Too much for a standard sci fi series. Id rather watch an old black and white series. The Twilight Zone was shot on a shoestring and left a great deal to viewer's imaginations. But Extant shows and tells us almost everything. If I were going to pitch this to a producer Id say a combination of the FBI, any thriller and maybe AI. A rather poor combination if you ask me ask me See more Feb 8, 2018 The series has an excellent premise, or rather two excellent premises rolled into one. On the wife’s side is the unexplainable pregnancy that happened while she was alone in space and seems to be some sort of half-human starchild. The husband’s story has him designing and adopting a robot child (ala AI but much friendlier). In both cases the result is a non-human child and it deals with very real issues of partenthood and learning to accept children for who they are. Alas, it doesn’t have the courage of its convictions and soon ends up with yet another government conspiracy and X-Filesesque stolen alien hybrid plot. It also tones down any of the uncomfortable questions raised in the first episodes. For example, it is strongly implied that android child was killing birds, a fairly obvious sign of sociopathy or serious childhood development issues. Yet after episode 2 or 3 it’s never mentioned again. In fact, the slightly creepy potentially dangerous child angle never really goes anywhere. After a certain point it just seems to be clear that he’s just a gifted child. Exccept when the plot says he isn’t. I think that one of the basic issues here is that both these stories do not work in tandem. You’d think they would, but by focusing on the conspiracy and the alien hybrid (who’s not even seen until near the end) the robot child gets sidelined. And that’s just not the sort of storyline you can put on the backburner. The series hits a point about halfway through where it stops dealing with these interesting social questions and just bores straight ahead with the conspiracy, and from this point on it just sort of seems to go through the motions. For example, there’s a humans-only terrorist who gets introduced to the android and then we spend five episodes waiting for the payoff. See more Jan 17, 2018 The show gives two interesting story plots to coexist in one show but without fully connecting. Performances by the characters fall short of expectations for the calibers presented leaving the show with a low budget feel. See more Read all reviews

Extant — Season 1

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