Hey I like scifi that merges ET and AI theme. I'm actually in agreement with Extant's overall casting and tech set design. I did warm up to Halle (she is sincere) enough to look pass her ridiculously-distracting 1990 office manager costume decisions and stupid inane tiktoking high wedge heels in high-stake 2050 action scenes.
I still give Extant Season 1 a 7 out of 10, and jacked it up to 9 out of 10 to counter unfair trashing.
Now I'm not sure anymore.
I thought by season 2 someone in the production team will check our Emporer's new clothes. Literally. Tell her "em, Halle, you need to look more rock-climbing-ready and less WISTERIA-LANE-HOUSEWIFEY". But no. Things had since gotten from so-so to lame.
The stupid tight stretchy singlet with plunging neckline + tight jeans + pointy heel boots get-up is just so 1990-era Auntie Obvious. Made worse by Halle's poor emulation of 1990-era hardcore gun-pointing baddie chick. The POSEY way she POSES with the gun and vision-impairing hair and utters some wannabe-cool one-liner are just so...MEGA EYES-ROLLING. Like a 1990 drug-lord girlfriend who just learned how to use gun the first time and still no-one would take her seriously because she IS still busy TRYING TOO HARD.
Trying too hard to what? Look like she's STILL WANTED. And write stupid captain obvious cringe-inducing "Molly you're so hot" lines for male actors to AFFIRM her as The Irresistible Sex Bomb.
Yes yes every leading males would fight and die for her hotness and then what? Why is an astronaut's attractiveness the center of the plot?
Is this NashVille in Space or what?
Yep. Halle Berry the self-evident excessively-endowed sex bomb still trying too hard to look fragile sexy damsel and demands the boys TELL THE WORLD REPEATEDLY she is the sexiest one of them all, as the whole humanity is under threat, as her runaway psychotic episodes "made her do stuff". What stuff?
Have more unnecessarily sweaty steamy SEX "look she is STILL available" scenes with hot nude guys half her age, and have more tantalizing inappropriate encounters with her very hot evil son, while the all-important AI savior child is missing his precious mommy and had attempted suicide. Yep...
Repeatedly the males reminds us the hero-damsel is relevant because she is...attractive to HIM PERSONALLY (not that she is heroic). So the rest (character STRENGTH, story logic & consistency, plot continuity, logical wardrobe choices) must take a back seat or be sacrificed.
This is not the only TV show that suffers from the alien invasion of Hollywood superego (or super-neurotic) overlords. True Detectives also had tedious "look I'm STILL so hot posturing" A-list actors dominating the screen with their pet narcissistic preoccupation. But at least it didn't kill the story logic for the audience.
Someone with courage please tell Halle Berry
1. she urgently needs an honest stylist. 2. she needs 2050 mission-ready action-ready clothing + HAIR 3. she needs to let go of this new long hair. Makes her look Al Capone mistress - even older. 4. she is hot enough AS SHE IS. 5. she needs to INTERNALIZE classic female spy bad-ass-ness.
And especially - She can't fight the enemy with those super-jarring LONG BIMBO NAILS and over-frequent cleavage parades. Sheesh.
Producers: her audience are not just 50+ older males. No, really. The world has progressed.
So please advance the plot so Ms Molly-Coddled could stop that super-annoying, super-lame, super-UNCOOL, super-neurotic worried puppy look. Molly is officially the lamest, crybaby-est, most panicky, high-maintenance, petty-righteous, random, unstable, hapless "hero" on TV.
Less Kerry Homeland or Rayna Nashville, more Olivia Pope and Starbuck of BSG or Nikita please.
Also, the most believable and strong-willed guys in the show, the other spooked astronaut and former hubby, are gone. Now all we get are silver-haired cowboy uncle in 1990-era-cool Jeeps as the muscle. YAWN.
Rectify these soon before this show degenerates to a superstar's therapeutic vehicle.
I still give Extant Season 1 a 7 out of 10, and jacked it up to 9 out of 10 to counter unfair trashing.
Now I'm not sure anymore.
I thought by season 2 someone in the production team will check our Emporer's new clothes. Literally. Tell her "em, Halle, you need to look more rock-climbing-ready and less WISTERIA-LANE-HOUSEWIFEY". But no. Things had since gotten from so-so to lame.
The stupid tight stretchy singlet with plunging neckline + tight jeans + pointy heel boots get-up is just so 1990-era Auntie Obvious. Made worse by Halle's poor emulation of 1990-era hardcore gun-pointing baddie chick. The POSEY way she POSES with the gun and vision-impairing hair and utters some wannabe-cool one-liner are just so...MEGA EYES-ROLLING. Like a 1990 drug-lord girlfriend who just learned how to use gun the first time and still no-one would take her seriously because she IS still busy TRYING TOO HARD.
Trying too hard to what? Look like she's STILL WANTED. And write stupid captain obvious cringe-inducing "Molly you're so hot" lines for male actors to AFFIRM her as The Irresistible Sex Bomb.
Yes yes every leading males would fight and die for her hotness and then what? Why is an astronaut's attractiveness the center of the plot?
Is this NashVille in Space or what?
Yep. Halle Berry the self-evident excessively-endowed sex bomb still trying too hard to look fragile sexy damsel and demands the boys TELL THE WORLD REPEATEDLY she is the sexiest one of them all, as the whole humanity is under threat, as her runaway psychotic episodes "made her do stuff". What stuff?
Have more unnecessarily sweaty steamy SEX "look she is STILL available" scenes with hot nude guys half her age, and have more tantalizing inappropriate encounters with her very hot evil son, while the all-important AI savior child is missing his precious mommy and had attempted suicide. Yep...
Repeatedly the males reminds us the hero-damsel is relevant because she is...attractive to HIM PERSONALLY (not that she is heroic). So the rest (character STRENGTH, story logic & consistency, plot continuity, logical wardrobe choices) must take a back seat or be sacrificed.
This is not the only TV show that suffers from the alien invasion of Hollywood superego (or super-neurotic) overlords. True Detectives also had tedious "look I'm STILL so hot posturing" A-list actors dominating the screen with their pet narcissistic preoccupation. But at least it didn't kill the story logic for the audience.
Someone with courage please tell Halle Berry
1. she urgently needs an honest stylist. 2. she needs 2050 mission-ready action-ready clothing + HAIR 3. she needs to let go of this new long hair. Makes her look Al Capone mistress - even older. 4. she is hot enough AS SHE IS. 5. she needs to INTERNALIZE classic female spy bad-ass-ness.
And especially - She can't fight the enemy with those super-jarring LONG BIMBO NAILS and over-frequent cleavage parades. Sheesh.
Producers: her audience are not just 50+ older males. No, really. The world has progressed.
So please advance the plot so Ms Molly-Coddled could stop that super-annoying, super-lame, super-UNCOOL, super-neurotic worried puppy look. Molly is officially the lamest, crybaby-est, most panicky, high-maintenance, petty-righteous, random, unstable, hapless "hero" on TV.
Less Kerry Homeland or Rayna Nashville, more Olivia Pope and Starbuck of BSG or Nikita please.
Also, the most believable and strong-willed guys in the show, the other spooked astronaut and former hubby, are gone. Now all we get are silver-haired cowboy uncle in 1990-era-cool Jeeps as the muscle. YAWN.
Rectify these soon before this show degenerates to a superstar's therapeutic vehicle.
