The series presents a wide range of dramatic events about the woman named Molly Woods. Molly is an astronaut at the International Space Exploration Agency (ISEA), where she has a different experience in her life. Now, Molly tries to know how she became pregnant on an individual assignment for 13 months.
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.)
Extant is a hodgepodge that serves up some creepy moments but gets bogged down by the inelegance of its copycat nature. It rumbles when it should roar. It stumbles when it should soar.
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.
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.
Extant has a clever concept that would probably work better on a bigger screen (especially the orbital scenes). But it's thoroughly entertaining - even if you wind up watching it on your shrinky-dink cellphone. Read more at
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.
