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Heroes
Season Three
SERIES: NBC, Monday 8:00p (60 minutes)

6.6 based on 9 reviews read critic reviews how did we calculate this? based on 79 votes read user comments rate this tv show

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TV:

• Heroes: Season One
• Heroes: Season One DVD

• Official Show Site

Starring Hayden Panettiere, Jack Coleman, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Masi Oka, Milo Ventimiglia, James Kyson Lee, Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter, and Adrian Pasdar

The future is in danger, and the gang must race to stop the end of the world as we know it.

GENRE(S):	Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
CREATED BY:	Tim Kring
FIRST AIR DATE:	September 22, 2008

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

75

Chicago Sun-Times Misha Davenport

Based on the first action-packed and fun episode, it looks like Kring and crew have succeeded in pulling out of their sophomore slump.

75

Newsday Verne Gay

This is good bunk, fun bunk, energetic bunk. Much better bunk than the last volume.

70

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

The first hour of Heroes answers enough questions and moves the story forward in such a way that a few "Huh?" moments won't matter as long as they're answered in short order and don't linger for too long.

70

PopMatters Todd R. Ramlow

In their certitude, the villains are more compelling than their wishy-washy heroic counterparts. The real excitement of “Villains” is its promise to expand the series’ assortment of baddies: their unabashed queerness and freakery make for more fun.

70

The New York Times Alessandra Stanley

Mr. Kring has assured interviewers and fans that the third season will correct those mistakes and recover the fast-paced suspense and tension of the first season. The premiere episode lives up to that pledge, with lots of violence, special effects and laser-fast editing. The plot and ever-escalating conspiracies are hard to follow, but even first-time viewers can easily get the gist.

60

Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara

Even just a half hour in, it's difficult not to wish everyone would just lighten the heck up. The graphic novel noir feel is becoming increasingly oppressive, and everyone is just so grim.

50

Boston Globe Joanna Weiss

NBC sent the first hour of tonight's two-hour season premiere to critics, and it's sprinkled with some of the original fun: inventive special effects, a twist or two, some nifty gore. That doesn't stop it from being the same, familiar mess.

40

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

Heroes may be better this year than it was last year, but it's still a very dumb show that just wants you to think it's smart.

0

New York Post Adam Buckman

This show, which was once so thrilling and fun, has become full of itself, its characters spouting crazy nonsense.

The average user rating for this tv show is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 79 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Cathy gave it a2:
I'm very disappointed with the direction the show has taken this season. It has now completely departed from the feel and the style of the first season. In the first season, each action that happened lead somewhere. Each action was important. Each person was important. Now it feels like the writers have completely forgotten the backstory of each of these characters -- completely forgetting that yes, other things have happened. The characters have all turned 180 degrees several times just for shock value. Sylar is an excellent example. I'm sick of this "He's good!" "No, he's bad!", "No he's good", "No, really, he's bad!" nonsense. Typically I do like the moral ambiguity presented when you have a good character doing something shady or a shady character doing something good, but the character is so 2-D, flipping his loyalties around so quickly is ineffective at best and terrible writing at worst. One could say the same thing for the rest of the crew -- HRG, Mohinder, Peter, Nathan, Tracy, Mama Petrelli. Terrible writing this season. I'm very disappointed.

Renarudo - gave it a1:
What once was a fun and interesting show has turned into a weekly hot mess, the characters are just one dimensional cardboard figures that turn each episode into an eye-rolling feast for the viewer. The plots just keep going from predicable to dumb and then dumber each week. The show has gotten so bad that they have started with budget cuts, you never see Petrelli taking off to fly anymore, he just jumps and then they cut to another shot and you hear a sound of him taking off. Cheesyyyyyy.

Bill B. gave it a9:
Frankly I'm amazed and quite shocked that people can give a series a score after a single episode. I at least watched a half dozen before giving it a low 9.

Elgin W. gave it a10:
I'm glad to see Heroes return to it's original form after last seasons horrible display.

Fantasy gave it a1:
What was once such a promising show has jumped the shark. I'm down to Tivoing it now but there are so many different stories going on it's hard to follow. When you stop caring about the characters in which the show has been reduced to a WWF event as in good one moment, bad the next, then back to good, who really cares? Have the writers ever heard of less is more? This will be the swan song as the show is doomed.

Jordan K. gave it a10:
Great start to the season. One may see that this season is heading in a great direction. Great so far, the premier may have been awkward and confusing, but it was only created to have people try to fill in the blanks themselves, brainstorm a little bit. Heroes took the once predictable but crazy climaxes into a mysterious darkness that needs to be resolved through a series of unfortunate events.

[Anonymous] gave it an8:
While not quite as good as Season 1, "Villains" improves drastically over Season 2, so that I'm actually excited to sit down and watch each week. It's not perfect: There has been at least 2 gaping plot holes in episode 4, but the storylines are interesting, the special effects are amazing, and the pace of the plot has really picked up nicely. If you were discouraged after Season 2 I highly recommend you check out Season 3.

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