I really do not know what is worse in this series - naive story, dull characters or fatal acting (especially the main characters, sorry Ms. Berry). I could hardly bear eight episodes (and as a SF fan I can bear a lot) and I had to surrender. Don't waste your time, there are better SF series out there.

It starts with a space pregnancy. Instead of the woman screaming, 'get it the hell out of me' the entire story is about her running around trying to find her 'baby'. Utterly unbelievable. No woman in her right mind would have that reaction to an alien pregnancy. Can't watch something so ridiculous as this.

This series had about the same intelligence as any given old-school Power Rangers episode, but with worse acting and even worse special effects. I feel sorry for the creators of it, because they seriously lack talent at what they do. Spielberg has a long history of shitty series, and quite honestly, I don't know how they can afford to keep making garbage like this. All of the actors were disinterested in their roles, and you could almost read the "man this is crap, when do I get paid?" expression on their faces. This the end of the Berry career. As for the screenplay itself...if you were to give a child a box of crayons and a handful of paint, they could create a better one. It's truly embarrassing, I feel shame belonging the same species.

When I first started watching this series I thought it would be the usual Sci-Fi junk that gets churned out on a regular basis but I was pleasantly surprised by Extant. This did appear to be radically different and great care was taken in the writing of Extant to keep you guessing as to where this story was going. In my opinion the storyline got stronger and stronger as it went along and the part of Molly Woods played by Halle Berry was riveting. The plot in theory could have gone either way and in part gave an insight as to how present Governments are likely to think and react to this kind of situation. Of course we do not know what lies out there and I would like to think that we would react differently in a similar situation. The 2nd series gathered pace and momentum and was quite gripping the whole plot was a different take on the alien invasion theme and I welcomed the inventiveness of the writers. Yes we can all pick holes in things, but give credit where it is due and I believe Extant to be one of the better series over the last few years