Now, as you may have been able to assume, I don’t watch too much American TV these days. However, one show that has particularly captured my attention is Heroes on NBC. The show is only four episodes in and already I have seen some immense head-fuckery. I don’t want to spoil too much, but I’ll say this: People die, and it ain’t ever exactly a smooth voyage to the other side.
I want to try to summarize the basic concept, but this shit is all over the place. Well, I’ll try my best: People all over the world gain amazing supernatural abilities, a la X-Men. Also much like X-Men, the powers seem to be genetically linked. A young scientist is continuing the research on these people that his father left behind when he died. Also, the same people who killed his dad are trying to knock him off. The main charm of the series isn’t in this concept, but how we see all the different people and side-stories come together.
There’s a woman escaping from her criminal husband with their son (The reflection of her in the mirror killifies people in rather unsavory ways), a hot cheerleader (She can recover from just about anything, even a snapped neck or lost organs. On a sidenote, she’s played by the English VA of Kairi from Kingdom Hearts), an eccentric Japanese salaryman (He can freeze and move forward and backward through time), a total jackass politician, and his brother (Both can fly). There are some others, but I won’t go into those right now.
Anyway, this is a show that begs to be seen. I’m looking forward to seeing the whole thing unfold.
