Due to the striking Writer’s Guild, episode 11 of Heroes’s second season may be the last we see of the show for quite some time.
It was a depressingly mundane hour of Heroes this week, as the show’s massive fluctuations of quality week-to-week continued.
It’s unfortunate that Heroes is starting to pick up real momentum just as its strike-shortened second season comes to an end.
Heroes takes a turn for the dull again with a wrenchingly uninteresting super-flashback.
Heroes finally kicked into gear on Monday with its seventh episode of the season.
“The Line” is evidence of the lack of progress the show has made since returning in September.
After a brief resurgence in energy and fun last week, Heroes’s second season takes a real dive with its fifth episode.
The episode’s weakest material concerned the Bennett family, still stuck in suburbia.
Overall, “Kindred” struck a worryingly dull note, slowing plot development to a crawl and keeping the overall fun quotient pretty low.
im Kring and his writers seem intent on exploring the reasons and logic behind their superpowered universe, and the implications in terms of human evolution all this has.
The episode subjects us to a lot of slow-moving exposition and fuzzy hints about overarching mysteries that won’t be resolved for months to come.