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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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100The show's fun, and a little freaky. [2 Oct 2006, p.45]
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91What 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.
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90"Heroes" is one of TV's most imaginative creations and might, with luck, become this year's "Lost."
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83Oka 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]
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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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80Like "Lost," it has the potential to grow into a cross-genre drama that reaches beyond cultiness to all kinds of TV viewers.
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80What makes this intriguing and ultimately irresistible serial thriller one of my favorites of the fall season are its characters.
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80A soul-deep sense of humanity grounds "Heroes."
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80NBC's "Heroes" is the best pilot of fall 2006. Whether it continues to soar in future episodes remains to be seen.
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75It's an entertaining TV show that easily could translate to a terrific comic book.
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75When 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."
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75"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.
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75Dense, dark, a little dreary and yet oddly intriguing, Heroes seems destined to attract an audience that is more loyal than large.
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75You don't have to be a fantasy or sci-fi geek to have fun with it
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70In 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.
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70A 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.
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70Fresh and fascinating.
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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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60If not exactly compelling, the pilot episode is engaging and often quirkily funny.
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60“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.
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60If you don't take it too seriously, it can be tremendous fun in a Saturday matinee kind of way.
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60The writing is uneven... but the idea is audacious enough to keep you following the loose threads.
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50Too much pretentious hooey about destiny obscures an unfocused saga of normal folks with odd powers.
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50This is... one of those concepts seemingly destined to leave a small but outspoken fan contingent grumbling next summer at Comic-Con about its cancellation.
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30The show is too diffuse, hokey and self-consciously portentous to suggest suspenseful possibility.
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20Despite oodles of cool effects, it lands, splat, in a pile of nonsense and dim dialogue.
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20A largely dreary dirge.
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10You 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.
User 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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An absolutely captivating genre-beding show. It is nearly flawless.
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