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Heroes

Heroes

TV Series · 2006–2010 · 15 people

Tim Kring created Heroes, an American superhero drama that borrowed the look and multi-episode arcs of American comic books, and NBC kept it on air for four seasons between September 25, 2006 and February 8, 2010. Its first season drew an average of 14.3 million US viewers, making it NBC's strongest drama premiere in five years, and the show went on to collect Emmy, Golden Globe, People's Choice and BAFTA nominations and awards.

The story follows ordinary people who discover extraordinary powers in the shadow of a solar eclipse. Among them are a Tokyo office worker who can stop time through willpower, a dreamer trying to prove to his politician brother that he can fly, a cheerleader who heals from any wound, an addicted artist who paints the future, a cop who hears thoughts, and a Las Vegas woman whose mirror image hides a secret. They learn their fates are linked and that they must prevent catastrophes that could kill millions. The cast includes Hayden Panettiere, Jack Coleman and Masi Oka.

Tailwind Productions and Universal Media Studios produced it, mostly in Los Angeles. The second season averaged 13.1 million viewers, though the Hollywood writers' strike cut it to 11 of 24 ordered episodes. NBC announced the cancellation in May 2010, and the story resumed in 2015 with the 13-episode miniseries Heroes Reborn.

Production companyUniversal Television
NetworkNBC

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Robert Knepper Robert Knepper Actor · 67 years old Zachary Quinto Zachary Quinto Actor · 49 years old Hayden Panettiere Jack Coleman Dana Davis Tawny Cypress Leonard Roberts Dania Ramirez James Kyson Lee Santiago Cabrera David Anders Masi Oka Greg Grunberg Cristine Rose Adrian Pasdar

Through different eyes

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Heroes started like a phenomenon, with a first season in which ordinary people discover their powers and find their fates linked, and an average audience of over 14 million bears that out. To me, that first season, where the big cast's paths cross, is the show's peak. When the writers' strike cut season two from 24 episodes to 11, the story ran out of breath, and in my view the later seasons never recaptured the tight structure of the first. The healthiest approach is to treat season one as the heart of the show and go into the rest with lower expectations.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

An office worker who stops time, a cheerleader who heals from any wound, an artist who paints the future: the power ideas are genuinely creative. And the stakes are huge, with catastrophes that could kill millions. But the show cares more about how the characters cope with their powers than about turning them into big spectacle scenes, which for an action fan sometimes means too much talking. Still, the curiosity is enough to carry you into the next episode.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

The most interesting thing about Heroes is how it brought the look of American comic books, and their logic of story arcs spread over several episodes, to television. The mosaic structure, uniting characters scattered from Tokyo to Las Vegas around a single looming catastrophe, shapes each episode like an issue of a comic. It's an ambitious model, but combined with network TV's long seasons it can lead to filler scenes and stalling subplots. In adapting comic-book aesthetics to a broadcast schedule you can see the source of both its success and its weakness. Its Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations show its formal daring was recognised.

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