Heroes
NBC | Release Date: September 25, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
23
Mixed:
10
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: The writing is uneven... but the idea is audacious enough to keep you following the loose threads. Read full review
60
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: If you don't take it too seriously, it can be tremendous fun in a Saturday matinee kind of way. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
60
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: If not exactly compelling, the pilot episode is engaging and often quirkily funny. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: “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. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 3 Review: 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. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeJoanna Weiss
Season 3 Review: 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. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: Too much pretentious hooey about destiny obscures an unfocused saga of normal folks with odd powers. Read full review
40
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 3 Review: 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. Read full review
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