Heroes
Season one is perfect 2000s television. The fizzle is real, the strike happened, Sylar deserved better. Hulu, 78 episodes, judge the seasons separately.
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Our Review
For one perfect season, Heroes was the water cooler show of the internet age, a broadcast serial where a diner waiter copies gestures, a Japanese office worker bends time, a cheerleader cannot die, and a watchmaker paints the future he intends to build. Save the cheerleader, kill the terrorist was a tagline worth the year it cost.
Then the writers’ strike, the jump the shark, the Hiro timeline detour, and a cancellation that only ended because NBC had already let it drift. Season one is a ten, seasons two and three are a genuinely messy six, and the miniseries finale earns a seven for finishing most of its table settings. 7.5 on IMDb from 258K voters averages those two legends into one number.
Zachary Quinto’s Sylar carries the entire show on his back and never gets the script he deserved; keep the Sylar and Hiro highlight reels honest and the show never really stopped. It streams on Hulu. Binge season one in a night, judge the rest at your own risk.
