TV Review: Heroes, Season 1
I’ve been told many times that I needed to see Heroes, that it was pretty much a show made for me. Since I was finishing up my last year of college when I first heard about it, I never got a chance to see the show until the first season came out on DVD. It’s a strange hybrid of superhero comics and realism, a tights-free exploration of what might actually happen if people developed abilities beyond those of mortal men.
If you like comic books at all, you’ll enjoy this show. Unfortunately, the first season gets off to a slow start, and I didn’t really feel grabbed by it until a few episodes in. I can’t tell you exactly where that shift happened, and part of it might have simply been the price of getting all the storylines going simultaneously, but by the last couple discs I found myself desperate to know what was going to happen next. Like many comic books, the “science†behind the show has to be taken with a grain of salt—a large grain of salt.
While there is humor sprinkled throughout, this is very much a drama. Tension abounds as characters meet and separate, a shadowy secretive organization tries to control everything, and the plot builds towards major confrontations near the end of the season. A bomb is going to blow up New York, and then there’s the matter of the superhuman psycho drilling open people’s heads to harvest their powers. There’s a lot going on, but it all manages to come together towards the end.
While it struggles to get its bearings at the beginning, Heroes turns into a very entertaining show with interesting characters, suspenseful moments, and plenty of shocking twists. If you’ve heard anything about the show, you’ve probably heard that Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura is a high point. He holds the show together in the first bumpy episodes and is simply a delight to watch. The other actors perform quite well too (and overall the quality of the show is enough to balance out the tremendously horrendous acting of comics legend Stan Lee in his one-line cameo midway through the season). I highly recommend Heroes—it’s one of the few spots of good television out there right now.
Heroes, Season 1 is available on DVD. Amazon link. (Season 2 is currently airing on NBC)
October 8th, 2007 at 3:12 am
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October 8th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Have you ever watched The X-Files? I think you just might love that show, if you can get past the first couple of seasons, with their cheesy graphics and somewhat boring developments. Scully and Mulder in mid-series = most awesomest thing ever.
June 17th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
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