Wow, two hours of Heroes tonight! Sure, the first hour was a little weird – the way it was devoted to that guy whose power was a keen grasp of complex economic issues, but I’ll give it a few episodes to see if there’s a payoff. They are not messing […]

So, they might have mentioned this once or a billion times during the Super Bowl, but Heroes is back! It’s the much-awaited “Fugitives” arc and, well, we’re off to kind of a dark start. Was there anybody who wasn’t screwed last time we saw them? For a change, they don’t […]

This? Was a good episode. Everybody’s stories advanced, and they were all important to the wrap-up. None of that “Hiro and Peter saved the world, and oh yeah, Niki died in a house fire” jazz for us. This is Season Three – the season where things happen! This isn’t something […]

Feel like watching the good guys take a beating for an hour? Well, this is the episode for you! Some nice character moments balance out some quasi-mysticism that didn’t quite work for me. (Come on, The Light? I’ve always got your back, Kring, but something tells me that was a […]

Wow. Let’s see, I turned out to be really wrong about something, and one of my favorite characters got killed. This is going to be a tough write-up, between my shame and my sadness. Right up front, this is the kind of role I like to see Peter in – […]

This is the episode that should have been called “Stuff goes crazy”. We’re heading into the end of “Villains”, and everything’s turned inside-out. Everybody ready? Arthur’s making his future drawings, and of course, he draws like Tim Sale. Once again, future art is something totally separate from what your own […]