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Heroes: season 4, episode 10
"Brother's Keeper"
November 16, 2009 - 10:11p.m.
Much like a guy who owns a boat named after himself, Heroes regularly keeps itself at bay. It writes itself into corners, then finds itself in another corner trying to get out of that first corner; before it knows what ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 9
"Shadowboxing"
November 9, 2009 - 09:11p.m.
Here's the problem with Heroes, if you overlook the bad acting, writing, directing, producing, special effects, and sense of subtlety with episode titles: All Heroes ever does is explain away powers. It used to be that there were people ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 8
"Once Upon a Time in Texas"
November 3, 2009 - 02:11a.m.
More than anything, Heroes wishes it was 2006 again. It was the cool new show on TV, it hadn’t gone to its well of narrative tricks so often that they all became boring, and people were legitimately enthralled by ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 7
"Strange Attractors"
October 26, 2009 - 10:10p.m.
It's been clear for quite some time that Heroes doesn't know the basic rules of storytelling. Well, the rule, really, which is… don't give away the ending. Take tonight's little story-ettes as examples: Claire and her ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 6
"Tabula Rasa"
October 19, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
What is this episode, "Tabula Rasa", about? Something definitive? Something we're still hoping to understand? Something just on the edge of what we'd define as "understanding"? Wait, here's a better question: What is TV?
It's this ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 5
"Hysterical Blindness"
October 12, 2009 - 10:10p.m.
You were promised unexpected kiss, you got unexpected KISS.
But no, no unexpected kiss. Just a kiss the show had been building to for weeks, and even not-so-subtly "hinted" at during the preview for tonight's episode. That, I think ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 4
"Acceptance"
October 5, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
Oh, there you are, Heroes. I was scared for a minute that I was seeing a different side of you, a side I didn't quite understand. You hadn't insulted me for a few weeks; actually, you seemed to ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 3
"Ink"
September 28, 2009 - 10:09p.m.
I'm confused. That's two Heroes episodes in a row that didn't make me want to feed my dick to a bunch of hungry dick termites, and somehow the world continues to exist? It's just as the ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 1-2
"Orientation"/"Jump, Push, Fall"
September 22, 2009 - 12:09a.m.
When I was a kid, I had a best friend. His name was Bobby. This was, like, third grade, and the first interaction I ever had with him was when I learned that this other kid, Mikey, had the goomba ...
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Heroes: season 3, episode 25
An Invisible Thread
April 27, 2009 - 11:04a.m.
For the season finale of Heroes, we figured we'd change things up from the usual middling-to-terrible grade-giving and instead boot up the ol' live blog starting at around 7:45pm central time tonight. It's fair to say that ...
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Heroes: season 3, episode 24
"I Am Sylar"
April 21, 2009 - 12:04a.m.
METAPHOR!!!
Am I the only one who shouted this at the screen just about every few seconds? After all, tonight's episode was filled with very "special" moments, in which the characters do specific things because of specific issues they ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 23
"1961"
April 13, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
Oh man, if you hated last week’s Heroes, you probably had some sort of aneurysm tonight. For the record, I was actually fine with last week’s baddie-fest, because at least something happened. Tonight, we were promised the moon ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 22
"Turn And Face The Strange"
April 7, 2009 - 12:04a.m.
I think if these two volumes of season three have taught us anything about Heroes, it's that, really, it's not that hard to make a halfway decent episode. If everyone acts somewhat within character, the plot moves forward ...
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Heroes: season 3, episode 21
Into Asylum
March 30, 2009 - 10:03p.m.
Hey, we’re back, and coming off an episode that even the Heroes haters thought was pretty good. Was it just because of those glorious, overdue deaths? (RIP Nikki and Daphne, but please don’t come back.) Is it because ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 20
"Cold Snap"
March 23, 2009 - 10:03p.m.
The show opens tonight on Danko. He's shaving in his house, absolutely quietly, when suddenly an alarm goes off. His front door is open. There no time for one last pass along his face: the chin is toweled, the ...
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Heroes: season 3, episode 19
Shades Of Gray
March 9, 2009 - 12:03p.m.
When last we saw Matt Parkman, the guy with ostensibly one of the most powerful powers on Heroes, he was strapped with explosives in Washington DC—a heinous plot by Danko to frame him and make all the Heroes look ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 18
"Exposed"
March 2, 2009 - 10:03a.m.
Lately, I don't really know how to feel about Heroes. I know how I don't feel: It's certainly not good—at least by season one, "I'm genuinely wondering where this thing is headed" standards of good ...
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Heroes: season 3, episode 17
Cold War
February 23, 2009 - 03:02p.m.
Okay haters, give at least this much up to this volume of Heroes: There’s some action. Even if the precious comic-book arcs have taken a turn toward the dumb/poorly reasoned, at least we’re not in that mode ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 16
"Building 26"
February 16, 2009 - 05:02p.m.
Over the break between Volume 3 (let's all shed a tear) and Volume 4, it became quite clear that Sean O'Neal didn't want to return to Heroes any time soon. So Josh suggested that he and I ...
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Heroes: season 3, episode 15
Trust And Blood
February 9, 2009 - 06:02p.m.
Admit it, Heroes haters who are still watching (and reading)—you were at least semi-excited by last week’s cliffhanger. There was some lean action at the end of the episode, and they were setting us up for some serious ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 14
"A Clear And Present Danger"
February 2, 2009 - 10:02p.m.
I’m a forgiving man, capable of starting with a clean slate if I feel like there’s reconciliation to be had. As a Heroes watcher, I’ve been asked to forgive, but then again, I haven’t felt nearly ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 13
"Dual"
December 15, 2008 - 11:12p.m.
Well, that happened. Heroes closes yet another labored volume, and "sets the stage" for the next one in February. I can hardly believe 13 episodes have come and gone. And not because I had so much fun with any of ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 12
"Our Father"
December 8, 2008 - 11:12p.m.
For those just reading the teaser blurb: This was a good episode. No, seriously. It was really good. But how? The show was way in the crapper last week; what contributed to such a drastic shift? Well, watching "Our Father ...
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Heroes: season 3, episode 11
"The Eclipse, Part 2"
December 1, 2008 - 11:12p.m.
"I think this eclipse showed us exactly who we all are: Desperate, angry…weak."–Papa Petrelli
No shit, Sherlock.
…and after a somewhat okay episode last week, things on Heroes are back to the way we're used to: Blunt ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 10
"The Eclipse, Part 1"
November 24, 2008 - 11:11p.m.
I came to a revelation over the weekend (a calm one this time) about what I think the problem is with Heroes this season. Just about every criticism–many of which, yes, were probably made by me–can be boiled ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 9
"It's Coming"
November 18, 2008 - 12:11a.m.
A few weeks back, I gave an episode a D-, which prompted one commenter to call me out. "That's just the gentleman's F," he (she?) said. "What's it gonna take to give Heroes a failing grade?"
To ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 8
Villains
November 10, 2008 - 10:11p.m.
I'll say this up front: I'm not a Heroes obsessive. I watch the show every week, but almost as quickly as it enters my brain, it exits. I don't go to the website for webisodes or clues ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 7
"Eris Quod Sum"
October 27, 2008 - 11:10p.m.
How did he do it? How. Did. He. Do. It? Howdidhedoit? How did Peter, who we've established has no abilities, fall seven stories and not get seriously hurt? It's incredible, because it's not even like he has ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 6
"Dying Of The Light"
October 20, 2008 - 11:10p.m.
Sean is still dealing with his NBC issue, so I'll be handling things for the foreseeable future (at least until this volume is complete). He'll be missed around these parts, but I'll do what I can to ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 5
"Angels and Monsters"
October 13, 2008 - 11:10p.m.
When Sean and Noel asked me to cover Heroes this week (NBC still hasn't been restored to Sean's neighborhood), the first thing I did was head to NBC's press site to find a post photo/witness the ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 4
"I Am Become Death"
October 6, 2008 - 10:10p.m.
[Hello, friends. Thanks to a bitter contract dispute between Time Warner Cable and Austin's local affiliate, I'm currently unable to watch any NBC programming, including Heroes. Yes, I suppose I could go out and retrofit my TV with ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 3
"One Of Us, One Of Them"
September 30, 2008 - 12:09a.m.
Before we go any further, I should probably take a moment to explain the controversial grading system I've been using to assign those troublesome little letters you see after all my miles of prattling prose. See, when I first ... -
Heroes: season 3, episode 1 & 2
"The Second Coming"/"The Butterfly Effect"
September 23, 2008 - 03:09a.m.
To say that the stakes were high for Heroes' third season premiere would be an understatement: Perhaps never has a show squandered its early promise so egregiously as Heroes did in its middling-to-painfully bad second season. In a sense the ... -
Heroes: season 2, episode 11
"Powerless"
December 4, 2007 - 01:12a.m.
Looks like we made it, Heroes fans (and people who hate the show but watch anyway so they can bitch about it). Volume Two is finally closed and we've come to the end of our wild, crazy ride–which ... -
Heroes: season 2, episode 10
"Truth And Consequences"
November 27, 2007 - 01:11a.m.
Coming off of last week's rousing return to form and being the last stop before the final episode (of Volume 2 and–should the writers' strike linger into '08–possibly the season), "Truth And Consequences" couldn't help but ... -
Heroes: season 2, episode 9
"Cautionary Tales"
November 20, 2007 - 12:11a.m.
"Get over your daddy issues and leave us be!"
Oh Angela Petrelli, you ignorant slut: If Heroes were to ever get over its daddy issues, why, we'd have nothing to talk about! What would that even look like–a ... -
Heroes: season 2, episode 8
"Four Months Ago"
November 12, 2007 - 11:11p.m.
[Since NBC's perpetually iffy publicity database appears to be on the fritz again, I'm afraid we'll have to make do with the image above–which come to think of it, looks about 10 times more fun than ... -
Heroes: season 2, episode 7
"Out Of Time"
November 5, 2007 - 11:11p.m.
"The TV's got them images / T.V.'s got them all / It's not shocking!"
Is it becoming a cliché to whine that a Heroes episode was anticlimactic? Although I have to say, doing this blog has made me ... -
Heroes: season 2, episode 6
"The Line"
October 29, 2007 - 11:10p.m.
With this season of Heroes promising little and delivering even less when it comes to the kind of compelling plot that drove the first season, many of you have made your displeasure known, including threatening to abandon the show altogether ... -
Heroes: season 2, episode 5
"Fight Or Flight"
October 22, 2007 - 11:10p.m.
It must be nice to be a Heroes cast member, knowing that–unlike the stars of some other ensemble shows–you don't have to be on set every single week. Those third-tier schmucks over on ER, for example, probably ... -
Heroes: season 2, episode 4
"The Kindness Of Strangers"
October 16, 2007 - 01:10a.m.
Hey, who likes answers?
The fickle Heroes viewing audience, that's who–the ones pampered from watching their TV on DVD, who chafe at playing a show's sadistic little guessing game from week to week as it deliberately delays ... -
Heroes: season 2, episode 3
"Kindred"
October 8, 2007 - 11:10p.m.
So after the much-ballyhooed return of "the villain you love to hate," this is how we find Sylar: Sitting on a beach Trading Places-style and being tended to by Candice, finally confirming those suspicions that it was she who ... -
Heroes: season 2, episode 2
"Lizards"
October 2, 2007 - 02:10a.m.
On the suggestion of last week's commenters, I went and checked out the last couple of Heroes graphic novels posted, expecting to find some of that supposedly useful information that was hinted at–specifically, an explanation of what Maya ... -
Heroes: season 1, episode 1
"Four Months Later"
September 25, 2007 - 02:09a.m.
Since its very first episode, Heroes has been about perpetual forward motion, setting small goals for itself and moving its various characters around like pieces on a chessboard and always with a primary objective in mind: Saving the cheerleader. Finding ...
