Heroes

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Season 3
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 25, 2006
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
5.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 214 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 99 out of 214
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 214
  3. Negative: 79 out of 214
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  1. chrisreed494
    Jul 19, 2012
    0
    This season was very boring, I was so hooked in the first 2 seasons and got here and it just dropped off. I was very dissapointed. I quit watching it halfway throught because I couldnt do it.
  2. cameronmorewood
    Nov 9, 2012
    3
    It's desperation; I wish someone could've saved which was once such a brilliant show.
  3. Path
    Sep 16, 2009
    3
    Ok enough with the drama! I want to see some fighting and action! Why do I even put myself through watching another boring episode. This show use to be soo exciting!
  4. Cathy
    Apr 1, 2009
    2
    I'm very disappointed with the direction the show has taken this season. It has now completely departed from the feel and the style of the first season. In the first season, each action that happened lead somewhere. Each action was important. Each person was important. Now it feels like the writers have completely forgotten the backstory of each of these characters -- completely I'm very disappointed with the direction the show has taken this season. It has now completely departed from the feel and the style of the first season. In the first season, each action that happened lead somewhere. Each action was important. Each person was important. Now it feels like the writers have completely forgotten the backstory of each of these characters -- completely forgetting that yes, other things have happened. The characters have all turned 180 degrees several times just for shock value. Sylar is an excellent example. I'm sick of this "He's good!" "No, he's bad!", "No he's good", "No, really, he's bad!" nonsense. Typically I do like the moral ambiguity presented when you have a good character doing something shady or a shady character doing something good, but the character is so 2-D, flipping his loyalties around so quickly is ineffective at best and terrible writing at worst. One could say the same thing for the rest of the crew -- HRG, Mohinder, Peter, Nathan, Tracy, Mama Petrelli. Terrible writing this season. I'm very disappointed.… Expand
  5. NathanA.
    Oct 15, 2008
    2
    There were a few intriguing elements but otherwise the season premier was a disparate mess. They have no regard for the characters they set up and too little patience to start them over. Instead, they just change characters (Suresh, for instance) on a whim by tactlessly and explicitly stating their emotions to suit whatever outlandish plot they've come up with next. When this show There were a few intriguing elements but otherwise the season premier was a disparate mess. They have no regard for the characters they set up and too little patience to start them over. Instead, they just change characters (Suresh, for instance) on a whim by tactlessly and explicitly stating their emotions to suit whatever outlandish plot they've come up with next. When this show started out, I had such high hopes for it, but after that episode I'm completely disinterested. It's amazing how quickly they squandered the the goodwill and hope they'd earned from viewers and critics alike. Figure out where you're going more than a season in advance, then go there. And take your time letting that story develop, jeeze!… Expand
  6. TageE.
    Oct 25, 2008
    2
    The third season is a textbook definition of "Jumping the shark". Either the writers don't care or they're just negligent. Way too much is happening way too quickly and things are changing way to drastically for the show to be meaningful or interesting anymore.
  7. Renarudo-
    Mar 5, 2009
    1
    What once was a fun and interesting show has turned into a weekly hot mess, the characters are just one dimensional cardboard figures that turn each episode into an eye-rolling feast for the viewer. The plots just keep going from predicable to dumb and then dumber each week. The show has gotten so bad that they have started with budget cuts, you never see Petrelli taking off to fly What once was a fun and interesting show has turned into a weekly hot mess, the characters are just one dimensional cardboard figures that turn each episode into an eye-rolling feast for the viewer. The plots just keep going from predicable to dumb and then dumber each week. The show has gotten so bad that they have started with budget cuts, you never see Petrelli taking off to fly anymore, he just jumps and then they cut to another shot and you hear a sound of him taking off. Cheesyyyyyy.… Expand
  8. Allan
    Jun 1, 2009
    3
    I can probably say that the third season of Heroes is one of the worst seasons I have ever watched, of any television show. And it's 25 episodes! My god. There are about 5 or 6 episodes that are great, and the rest range from below average to terrible. Watch the first season, and you will love it. Watch the second season, and you will be entertained, if put off by the rehashed I can probably say that the third season of Heroes is one of the worst seasons I have ever watched, of any television show. And it's 25 episodes! My god. There are about 5 or 6 episodes that are great, and the rest range from below average to terrible. Watch the first season, and you will love it. Watch the second season, and you will be entertained, if put off by the rehashed storylines and rushed ending. Watch the third season and you will wonder how one of the most exciting new shows on television has become simply terrible and derivative. Also, the last fifteen minutes of the season finale contains more stupidity, ridiculousness and just plain terrible writing that you will actually feel offended. And my god, the teaser to volume four is horrendous.… Expand
  9. Fantasy
    Nov 9, 2008
    1
    What was once such a promising show has jumped the shark. I'm down to Tivoing it now but there are so many different stories going on it's hard to follow. When you stop caring about the characters in which the show has been reduced to a WWF event as in good one moment, bad the next, then back to good, who really cares? Have the writers ever heard of less is more? This will be What was once such a promising show has jumped the shark. I'm down to Tivoing it now but there are so many different stories going on it's hard to follow. When you stop caring about the characters in which the show has been reduced to a WWF event as in good one moment, bad the next, then back to good, who really cares? Have the writers ever heard of less is more? This will be the swan song as the show is doomed.… Expand
  10. OM
    Sep 22, 2008
    2
    What a let down! Seems like the "lost" dilemma has ultimately reached this show. Something good gets diluted with hypothetical problems to somehow throw a twist in an already unanswerable question in order to stretch a show for a network. To make more seasons and more money. Seems like they are trying to do too much without staying true to the core of the first season. The Third Season is What a let down! Seems like the "lost" dilemma has ultimately reached this show. Something good gets diluted with hypothetical problems to somehow throw a twist in an already unanswerable question in order to stretch a show for a network. To make more seasons and more money. Seems like they are trying to do too much without staying true to the core of the first season. The Third Season is similar to this comment, a whole lot of words and fluff but doesn't make a lot of sense!… Expand
  11. JorgeL.
    Sep 23, 2008
    2
    I really don't see much of an improvement over last season so far, in fact it looks like it could potentially be worse. The premiere was cheesy, awkward and a little embarrassing to watch or even admit to it.
  12. Caspery
    Sep 23, 2008
    2
    Spare me the stupidity and the ensuing fanboy blindness that causes them to act like this show (and LOST) could do no harm. They're both masking inept writing with a false aura of intelligence. If people think either of these shows is a work of genius, rather written above a 4th grave level, what will they accept to be merely good?
  13. FredT.
    Sep 22, 2008
    1
    Still an incoherent mess. Watch The Sarah Connor Chronicles to see how it should be done.
  14. DunyG
    Apr 4, 2021
    1
    Okay, season 1 had a lot of great moments, though it was slow. This, was a mess.

    While the acting is still good, the plot keeps getting messier.

    I really hate the finale and while Sylar is still cool and has lots of depth I feel that he was getting overused. Also, weird time-travel garbage is present.

    This season is a big failure in my perspective.

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#72 Best TV Season of 2008
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#17 Most Discussed TV Season of 2008
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#48 Most Shared TV Season of 2008

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Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Joanna Weiss
    50
    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.
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  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Misha Davenport
    75
    Based on the first action-packed and fun episode, it looks like Kring and crew have succeeded in pulling out of their sophomore slump.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    60
    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.
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