Heroes

Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman

The show's super strengths are its well-developed filmmaking, smooth pacing and a perfect cast. It views like the first hour of a fun, thoughtful movie.

People WeeklyTom Gliatto

The show's fun, and a little freaky. [2 Oct 2006, p.45]

Christian Science MonitorGloria Goodale

What they do with their powers and the impact they'll have on others is the raison d'etre of the show; the moody noir tone and offbeat writing are the reasons to tune in.

Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron

"Heroes" is one of TV's most imaginative creations and might, with luck, become this year's "Lost."

Entertainment WeeklyAlynda Wheat

Oka is pure delight as a wage slave who's broken the space-time continuum, and... Grunberg shines as a telepathic cop. [29 Sep 2006, p.71]

Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart

What makes this intriguing and ultimately irresistible serial thriller one of my favorites of the fall season are its characters.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

NBC's "Heroes" is the best pilot of fall 2006. Whether it continues to soar in future episodes remains to be seen.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

Like "Lost," it has the potential to grow into a cross-genre drama that reaches beyond cultiness to all kinds of TV viewers.

NewsdayDiane Werts

A soul-deep sense of humanity grounds "Heroes."

Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

Heroes offers uneven acting, clunky dialogue and some flat figures.... Yet Heroes overcomes its flaws to present arresting, off-the-wall entertainment.

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

"Heroes" may be the dark horse among this year's serialized dramas. It also might be a dud down the road. Because after two episodes, it's not even remotely clear what these "special" ordinary people are capable of.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

It's an entertaining TV show that easily could translate to a terrific comic book.

USA TodayRobert Bianco

Dense, dark, a little dreary and yet oddly intriguing, Heroes seems destined to attract an audience that is more loyal than large.

New York PostAdam Buckman

When I was watching the first three episodes of "Heroes" provided by NBC, I couldn't wait for Hiro's scenes, which is not to say you should dismiss the rest of the characters on "Heroes."

Detroit Free PressMike Duffy

You don't have to be a fantasy or sci-fi geek to have fun with it

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray

In a season overrun with "Lost" wannabes, "Heroes" zigs where so many zag, keeping the ethnic diversity, the hidden connections between the characters and, of course, the overarching mystery, but infusing them with something that feels entirely fresh and yet whose appeal is as old as comic books.

Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall

A big, colorful, messy, involving, funny explosion of a show. If it's not the best new series of the season, it's definitely the most memorable.

San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum

Fresh and fascinating.

The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley

“Heroes” tries very hard to spook viewers with hints of science fiction and dark conspiracies. But its main appeal is the curious link among complete strangers.

Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd

It does get a little pretentious at times, especially during the opening and closing narrations, but its pretensions are very much comic-book pretensions, and therefore allowable in what is, fundamentally, a comic book.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

If not exactly compelling, the pilot episode is engaging and often quirkily funny.

Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland

If you don't take it too seriously, it can be tremendous fun in a Saturday matinee kind of way.

TimeJames Poniewozik

The writing is uneven... but the idea is audacious enough to keep you following the loose threads.

VarietyBrian Lowry

This is... one of those concepts seemingly destined to leave a small but outspoken fan contingent grumbling next summer at Comic-Con about its cancellation.

TV GuideMatt Roush

Too much pretentious hooey about destiny obscures an unfocused saga of normal folks with odd powers.

LA WeeklyRobert Abele

The show is too diffuse, hokey and self-consciously portentous to suggest suspenseful possibility.

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

Despite oodles of cool effects, it lands, splat, in a pile of nonsense and dim dialogue.

Washington PostTom Shales

A largely dreary dirge.

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

You could watch the first few episodes of “Heroes,” or you could repeatedly hit yourself on the head with a brick. The effect is surprisingly similar.