| 100 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
The show's super strengths are its well-developed filmmaking, smooth pacing and a perfect cast. It views like the first hour of a fun, thoughtful movie. |
| 100 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
The show's fun, and a little freaky. [2 Oct 2006, p.45] |
| 91 |
Christian Science Monitor Gloria Goodale
What they do with their powers and the impact they'll have on others is the raison d'etre of the show; the moody noir tone and offbeat writing are the reasons to tune in. |
| 90 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
"Heroes" is one of TV's most imaginative creations and might, with luck, become this year's "Lost." |
| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly Alynda Wheat
Oka is pure delight as a wage slave who's broken the space-time continuum, and... Grunberg shines as a telepathic cop. [29 Sep 2006, p.71] |
| 80 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
What makes this intriguing and ultimately irresistible serial thriller one of my favorites of the fall season are its characters. |
| 80 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
NBC's "Heroes" is the best pilot of fall 2006. Whether it continues to soar in future episodes remains to be seen. |
| 80 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Like "Lost," it has the potential to grow into a cross-genre drama that reaches beyond cultiness to all kinds of TV viewers. |
| 80 |
Newsday Diane Werts
A soul-deep sense of humanity grounds "Heroes." |
| 80 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Heroes offers uneven acting, clunky dialogue and some flat figures.... Yet Heroes overcomes its flaws to present arresting, off-the-wall entertainment. |
| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
"Heroes" may be the dark horse among this year's serialized dramas. It also might be a dud down the road. Because after two episodes, it's not even remotely clear what these "special" ordinary people are capable of. |
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
It's an entertaining TV show that easily could translate to a terrific comic book. |
| 75 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Dense, dark, a little dreary and yet oddly intriguing, Heroes seems destined to attract an audience that is more loyal than large. |
| 75 |
New York Post Adam Buckman
When I was watching the first three episodes of "Heroes" provided by NBC, I couldn't wait for Hiro's scenes, which is not to say you should dismiss the rest of the characters on "Heroes." |
| 75 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
You don't have to be a fantasy or sci-fi geek to have fun with it |
| 70 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
In a season overrun with "Lost" wannabes, "Heroes" zigs where so many zag, keeping the ethnic diversity, the hidden connections between the characters and, of course, the overarching mystery, but infusing them with something that feels entirely fresh and yet whose appeal is as old as comic books. |
| 70 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
A big, colorful, messy, involving, funny explosion of a show. If it's not the best new series of the season, it's definitely the most memorable. |
| 70 |
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times Charlie McCollum
Fresh and fascinating. |
| 60 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
“Heroes” tries very hard to spook viewers with hints of science fiction and dark conspiracies. But its main appeal is the curious link among complete strangers. |
| 60 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
It does get a little pretentious at times, especially during the opening and closing narrations, but its pretensions are very much comic-book pretensions, and therefore allowable in what is, fundamentally, a comic book. |
| 60 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
If not exactly compelling, the pilot episode is engaging and often quirkily funny. |
| 60 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
If you don't take it too seriously, it can be tremendous fun in a Saturday matinee kind of way. |
| 60 |
Time James Poniewozik
The writing is uneven... but the idea is audacious enough to keep you following the loose threads. |
| 50 |
Variety Brian Lowry
This is... one of those concepts seemingly destined to leave a small but outspoken fan contingent grumbling next summer at Comic-Con about its cancellation. |
| 50 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Too much pretentious hooey about destiny obscures an unfocused saga of normal folks with odd powers. |
| 30 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
The show is too diffuse, hokey and self-consciously portentous to suggest suspenseful possibility. |
| 20 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Despite oodles of cool effects, it lands, splat, in a pile of nonsense and dim dialogue. |
| 20 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
A largely dreary dirge. |
| 10 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
You could watch the first few episodes of “Heroes,” or you could repeatedly hit yourself on the head with a brick. The effect is surprisingly similar. |
