2.8 Extant 2.12 “Double Vision” & 2.13 “The Greater Good” Shawn Hill September 24, 2015 Reviews, TV Extant ends nearly as expected, by playing three sci-fi apocalypses off each other in occasionally interesting ways.
3.0 Extant 2.11 “Zugzwang” Shawn Hill September 15, 2015 Reviews, TV Let's just call this one B-movie bliss. It's not the smartest sci-fi TV show we've ever seen, but it's also not the dumbest.
4.0 Extant 2.10 “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” Shawn Hill September 2, 2015 Reviews, TV Wait, what just happened? Did Extant, with only 4 episodes to go in season 2 suddenly get good?
3.0 Extant 2.09 “The Other Side” Shawn Hill August 26, 2015 Reviews, TV They just need a crisper through line and some more inventive combinations to really get off the ground.
3.0 Extant 2.08 “Arms and the Humanich” Shawn Hill August 25, 2015 Reviews, TV We rise back to average for this episode of Extant, that seems almost like a deck-clearing exercise.
2.7 Extant 2.05, 2.06 & 2.07 Shawn Hill August 12, 2015 Reviews, TV Extant is as inconsistent in its second season as it was in its first. Figuring out what it wants to be seems to be as evolving a theme as is the...
2.3 Extant 2.03 “Empathy for the Devil” & 2.04 “Cracking the Code” Shawn Hill August 5, 2015 Reviews, TV Extant is kind of the definition of wild swings in quality from episode to episode.
2.0 Extant 2.02 “Morphoses” Shawn Hill July 14, 2015 Reviews, TV The new direction of Extant falls immediately into formula and doesn't quite keep the interest it might with more unconventional plotting.
3.0 Extant 2.01 “Change Scenario” Shawn Hill July 6, 2015 Reviews, TV I mean, for an aliens-violating-our-women scenario, Extant had a lot of fresh twists.
4.0 Extant 1.13 “Ascension” Shawn Hill September 29, 2014 Reviews, TV Extant does occupy a kind of unique sci-fi niche, actually.
4.0 Extant 1.06 “Nightmares” Shawn Hill August 20, 2014 Reviews, TV Now this is what I'm talking about! How weird was this episode?
3.0 Extant 1.05 “What on Earth is Wrong?” Shawn Hill August 12, 2014 Reviews, TV Of course they have the baby, which is all they ever wanted. For what purpose we still don’t know.
3.0 Extant 1.03 “Wish You Were Here” Shawn Hill July 30, 2014 Reviews, TV I’m just looking forward to a more urgent pace.
3.0 Extant 1.02 “Extinct” Shawn Hill July 22, 2014 Reviews, TV Extant is all about tension. Its subtext is paranoia.
3.5 Extant 1.01 “Reentry” Shawn Hill July 15, 2014 Reviews, TV There's time to explore each of these plot angles, and maybe even a guiding vision of how to do so.