What makes for a superhero story? If your answer is “a bunch of crazy stuff that happens!” congratulations! You…

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The last time No Ordinary Family went into a lengthy hiatus, over most of December, it had almost as much plot and…

Perhaps No Ordinary Family tried too hard to appeal to the masses at its beginning and didn't actually manage to…

No Ordinary Family hasn't decided what it wanted to be. It's worked as three different shows. The one that it's been…

What kind of show No Ordinary Family wants to be has always been somewhat debatable. I've been pretty certain that…

What can you do?

Television is an inherently artificial medium. Well, most media are, but television has it worst. The combined…

Tonight's No Ordinary Family was not promising. It was just a handful of episodes ago that we had the sitcom trope…

In Which No Ordinary Family Descends Into Self-Parody…

So this is what it looks like when No Ordinary Family tries. Instead of intentionally spinning its wheels, tonight's…

We're nine episodes into No Ordinary Family. The premise of the show is such that, in my opinion, we can reasonably…

No Ordinary Family is a conservative show. It's a small-c kind of “conservative.” It's not going to tell you to vote…

One of the hallmarks of good superhero-based plotting is interesting twists. Sure, you do the occasional,…

During No Ordinary Family's two-week hiatus, I got into a brief conversation with Twitter Friend of The A.V Club…

What kind of show do you want No Ordinary Family to be? I think most of us are at least a little bit disgruntled by…

There has to be a certain amount of bad logic in a superhero story. No Ordinary Family acknowledged as much in its…

I saw one prominent TV critic call No Ordinary Family “painfully ordinary” after the pilot. It was not a sentiment…

Public service announcement: Despite going up against Glee's cultural juggernaut, No Ordinary Family managed to pick…

Who among us who does not like origin stories? They're driving the superhero renaissance, with reboots like Batman…