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Attracting Strangers

[ This review covers Volume 5, Chapter Seven of Heroes, entitled Strange Attractors, which originally aired on Monday, October 22, 2009 ] Now, I’ll forgive the writers for not giving me any Peter this episode (a Petrelli-less episode? Say whaaa?) because Bennett got some good stuff. But note, that should either one of them ever [...]

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One Big Dysfunctional Family

[ This review covers Volume 5, Chapter Five of Heroes, entitled Hysterical Blindness, which originally aired on Monday, October 12, 2009 ] I miss the good old days of heroes when these superhumans actually had a purpose and a goal. I’d even take them battling each other all out in a heroes vs. villains type [...]

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Accepting Reality

[ This review covers Volume 5, Chapter Four of Heroes, entitled Acceptance, which originally aired on Monday, October 5, 2009 ] A lot to say this week, so bear with me. Genius television writer, Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) is back on Heroes, which means the once exceedingly popular, beloved show has a legitimate shot at [...]

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The Color of Sound

[ This review covers Volume 5, Chapter Three of Heroes, entitled Ink, which originally aired on Monday, September 28, 2009 ] Season four’s third episode was ripe with hero(ic) scams, mischievous mind games, life-altering discoveries, and budding friendships. In this episode, Samuel goes searching for his brother’s replacement and his precious compass, Peter gets served, [...]

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Road to Redemption

[ This review covers Volume 5, Chapters One and Two of Heroes, entitled Orientation and Jump, Push, Fall, which originally aired on Monday, September 21, 2009 ] And premiere week begins! The heroes are back at it again. Well, sort of. Okay, well, not exactly…yet. So it’s apparently been six weeks since the eventful conclusion [...]

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Ratings Report: 02.02.09

Heroes returned Monday with its all-new “Fugitives” arc that is supposedly going to return the show to “season one greatness,” yet, for all of the pushing and promotion during Super Bowl Sunday, the return was watched by a mere 8.5 million viewers. That’s up from the numbers of the “Villians” volume, but still isn’t great [...]

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