The production design is mostly pretty great; futuristic without being off-putting. But the directing left a lot to be desired.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 9, 2018

After a suspenseful first episode that sets up all these meaty themes and plot threads, the narrative loses steam, especially as it detours into the hidden agenda of the company and the Japanese tycoon who owns it.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2016

Extant is a near-miss, a show with a lot of ideas, most of them borrowed from superior projects.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2014

Extant appears as though it will center on relationships. The characters aren't treated as the backdrop for the story about possible alien life and artificial intelligence, they're woven into the plot and so are their interactions.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.3/10 | Jul 14, 2014

Interestingly, the Steven Spielberg-produced drama decides against putting anything out there to help guide us on our mission to understand the unfolding events by leaving out the whens and wheres of Extant.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2014

The lead performances are a tad opaque, and the script feels as though it's telling two separate stories that don't immediately seem as though they'll connect in a graceful way.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2014

It's the question of what happened to [Molly and her former colleague) that Extant promises to explore, which gives the series the "thriller" part of its description.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2014

The storytelling is briskly paced, Halle Berry is typically good in the lead role, and the Extant pilot contains several scenes set in space, a sight that is far too rare on TV.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2014

The pilot is best off when focused on Molly and Ethan and John.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.6/10 | Jul 11, 2014

All [cast members] do a good enough job in the first episode with a tantalizing premise - and lot of grade A special effects - to make Extant worth checking out before it becomes extinct.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2014

Extant seems intent on hooking viewers with what might be, without giving much hint of what will be.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2014

If it does find something new and interesting to do with its basic subject matter of aliens and androids, it could be a deep, interesting mystery.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2014

Extant plays with genres, mixing sci-fi, conspiracy thriller and scenes from a struggling marriage.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 10, 2014

With that level of talent involved, you can't help but hope for the best, and the end results aren't too shabby.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2014

If this series makes good on the pilot's most intriguing threads, it should evolve into Rosemary's Baby meets Alien meets Homeland.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2014

While Extant lacks the sort of unforgettable "wow" moment provided by the severed cow in Dome's opener, the new series also seems less likely to lapse irrevocably into silly hysteria.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2014

It is an elegant and well-appointed production, with some nice Cinematic Moments

Full Review | Jul 9, 2014

No one element of this show feels original, and yet I would totally watch more, even if just to peep at the sleek futuristic garbage cans again. (In the future, our trash is very compact.)

Full Review | Jul 9, 2014

It's way too soon to say whether this jumble works, but it's promising that Extant's premiere seems confident enough to play it cool and mysterious rather than hammer us with holy-crap moments.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2014

[Extant] promises a messy sort of fun.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2014