- Starring: Leonard Roberts, Milo Ventimiglia, Tawny Cypress
- Summary: What would you do if you suddenly realized that you had superpowers? Better still, what would Milo Ventimiglia, Adrian Pasdar, and a bunch of actors you've probably never heard of do when they discover the same? Will they save the world? Or at least NBC's Monday night lineup?
- Genre(s): Drama, Suspense, Science Fiction
- Creator: Tim Kring
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Sep 25, 2006
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 09:00 PM
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 29
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Mixed: 7 out of 29
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Negative: 4 out of 29
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100The 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.
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80Heroes offers uneven acting, clunky dialogue and some flat figures.... Yet Heroes overcomes its flaws to present arresting, off-the-wall entertainment.
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60It 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.
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30The show is too diffuse, hokey and self-consciously portentous to suggest suspenseful possibility.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 165 out of 188
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Mixed: 8 out of 188
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Negative: 15 out of 188
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