There are so many dark clues to what is in store in Halle Berry's latest project, Extant.
There is the name: a word meaning in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost.
There is the way the name morphs from the more final ''extinct'' in the graphics on episode one.
There is the evil manipulative ploys used by her android child Ethan, and what looks like his incipient tendency towards homicide.
Then there's the bloke who shows up in the dark to warn her not to trust anyone.
The new show beginning on Prime this Thursday is a science fiction series boasting Berry in the starring role, Steven Spielberg as executive producer, and some slick production.
Best of all, it's set in the future, which has always been the place to be.
Instead of the sort of remote control helicopters kids have nowadays, in Extant, they fly small spaceships and space stations around the house.
The bathroom mirror, at the touch of a finger, turns into a television and calendar while you brush your teeth.
Even taking your recycling out the back is cool - the recycling bin is shiny metal with fancy lighting, and it sucks everything away.
Berry is Molly Woods, an astronaut (in a cool one-piece space uniform) with the International Space Exploration Agency.
She is assigned a solo mission aboard space station Seraphim, but somehow returns from a year in outer space - alone - pregnant.
Her husband John (Dr Luka Kovac in ER for a decade) is a robotics engineer who created their son Ethan, a prototype android called a ''humanich''.
He has developed Ethan to grow and learn like a human, but refuses to install a fail-safe shut-down system in case something goes horribly, horribly wrong.
And when Ethan apparently commits aviacide (I'm not sure if that's a word, but trust me, a bird gets it) when peeved, it looks like things might.
To top the whole thing off, the International Space Exploration Agency is a private sector firm run by the clearly evil Hideki Yasumoto (Hiroyuki Sanada), owner of the Yasumoto Corporation.
We can tell there's something off about this fellow, as he appears to require reanimation from some sort of chemical bath to attend a meeting.
The show mostly plays out on future-earth, with flashbacks to Molly's experiences in future-space, where an invisible former lover emerges from the ether - or does he?
It's all pretty good, and starts at 8.30pm.
At 8pm from Thursday, also on Prime, Modern Family returns, with the excellent Ed O'Neill, who gave men everywhere a role model to emulate on Married - with Children.
