Extant

Sounds interesting...

When CBS announced that they had managed to get Halle Berry for a new thirteen-part series, Huize Gumstarr immediately put the flag on the facade. I am a fan of Halle. Even if Halle were to knit fishermen's sweaters from navel fluff in a sterile white room for thirteen episodes, I would still enjoy watching it. At least that's what I thought. However, the first 45 minutes Extant already showed that Halle is no longer the Halle who was stretched out in Swordfish on a stretcher with bare-chested to read a book. Also the fact that the great Steven Spielberg was sideways involved in this chewed-up Alien(s) light version, unfortunately did not help. So. Hally is called Molly in Extant. Molly is an astronaut and returns to Earth after a solo flight 13 months pregnant. Well, I am not a midwife myself, but from my three years of biology at secondary school I seem to remember that as a human being 9 months are more than enough. So that's a mystery. A mystery that then waits 13 episodes for an answer. Between episodes one and thirteen there is a lot of mediocre acting and an accumulation of “Yeah, right”'s and “Tuuuuurlijk”'s. Actually, Extant would deserve a 7, but since I'm a sucker for sentiment and Halle's bum in her astronaut suit looks like two chicken breasts in a vacuumed cellophane wrapper, I give him a 7+. That's how I am.