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Heroes: Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 25, 2006
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
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Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 286 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
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  • 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): Action/Adventure, Science-Fiction, Drama
  • 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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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 29
  3. Negative: 4 out of 29
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    100
    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.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    60
    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.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    30
    The show is too diffuse, hokey and self-consciously portentous to suggest suspenseful possibility.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 160 out of 183
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 183
  3. Negative: 15 out of 183
  1. Paxster
    10
    The first series of Heroes was the best television I have ever seen. So inventive and so clever it really did eclipse anything I had ever seen before. I think its that idea of aspiring to achieve your goals whether you can time travel or are just a normal human being that really shines through. Shame that the writers strike killed the rest though.… Expand
    • 4 of 4 users said yes
  2. CadineL
    5
    I understand that in order to build a climax, the first 2 or 3 episodes should be viewed and interpreted as an introduction to the serie itself and what its about - not so much a comic book serie! Nevertheless, it shows loose threads but at the same time, an important lack of suspense right now. We can easily foresee what is about to happen and since it is so previsible and missing action, it makes it kind of dull to watch. Frankly (and mostly unfortunately), I don't think we will be presented with a second season unless the first serie find a way to evolve with more suspense and... action.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. chiefn
    3
    If you enjoy mainstream drivel like LOST, this is your cup of tea. If you want a thinking-man's show like The Wire, you'll get very, very bored by this very quickly. Better casting is needed.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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