Last night was the premiere of Extant, the new Steven Spielberg-produced, Malia Obama assisted, Halle Berry television vehicle about an astronaut’s mysterious space pregnancy.
Full disclosure: I did not watch the premiere of Extant last night. This might be because I reside in the 18-49 demographic which Extant did not do well in, ratings-wise. The show “skewed older” doing well in the 25-54 demo, probably because it is on CBS, home of The Olds. (Sorry, Olds.)
However, what I did do was speed-watch the pilot this morning so I feel highly qualified to discuss. I found Extant entertaining in a because-I-wanted-to-figure-out-what-the-hell-was-happening kind of way, but mostly very, very odd. It’s kind of like iRobot meets Contact. Halle Berry plays Molly Woods, an astronaut who recently returned from a space mission. She lives with her husband and their robot kid and she possibly had sex with an alien/her dead black husband while she was in space.
We here at Jezebel were a bit flummoxed by it all.
Regarding the audience
Hillary Crosley: Isn’t CBS for old people though in general?
Dodai Stewart: Halle Berry Was on TV and Only Old People Cared
Kate Dries: I mean. She is not young… So that sorta makes sense. Also the show is about like pregnancy and space. Right?
Regarding the premise
Dodai: Invisible alien sperm?
Hillary: She got pregnant while in space and not having any sex I believe