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Heroes: season 4, episode 19
"Brave New World"
February 8, 2010 - 11:02p.m.
I swear to God, the first line of this episode was, "Claire, help me get these rocks off." I can think of no better way to describe the ensuing 59 minutes and 50 seconds than that: Resolution via multiple deuxes ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 18
"The Wall"
February 1, 2010 - 09:02p.m.
When I watch an episode of Heroes at this point, I can't help but see it as a series of missed opportunities. (It's not a very fair way to watch, but I don't think anyone reads these ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 17
The Art Of Deception
January 25, 2010 - 09:01p.m.
I stopped watching Heroes earlier this season after keeping up with it religiously since the beginning, and I haven’t regretted the decision once. It wasn’t easy for me: When I start a book, movie, or serialized TV show ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 16
"Pass/Fail"
January 18, 2010 - 11:01p.m.
Fail.
So Samuel is out for blood because a girl none of us knew existed until two weeks ago rejected the love he's harbored for 20-odd years—erupting from the depths of his desperation like Daniel Plainview going to ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 15
"Close To You"
January 11, 2010 - 09:01p.m.
I'm gonna level with ya, people: I don't know what to say. This episode certainly moved a lot better than previous ones, and actually managed to include more characters than normal to surprisingly not clusterfucky effect. But, of ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 13-14
"Upon This Rock"/"Let It Bleed"
January 4, 2010 - 09:01p.m.
Here's something to chew on: This show exists.
Somebody working on Heroes thought it would be a good idea to never have Hiro be able to use his power. He's just going to try and get it back ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 12
"The Fifth Stage"
November 30, 2009 - 11:11p.m.
So it seems this is how Heroes does a pay-off episode: Get out as much information as you can about things viewers have seen a mile away. Tonight marks the exit of Adrian Pasdar as Nathan Petrelli, but c'mon ...
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Heroes: season 4, episode 11
"Thanksgiving"
November 23, 2009 - 11:11p.m.
Nothing advances the story in Heroes like the time between episodes—at least it feels that way, especially when the characters begin each one by explaining what's gone down in the interim and what's about to happen next ...
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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 ...
