For this week's TV Rewind, LacyMB celebrates the near-perfect first season of NBC's Heroes and the debt genre fans owe to this franchise, no matter how badly it ended.
television. Its bonkers cliffhangers and surprise twists were the definition of must-see TV, true viral pop culture moments that existed long before social media made going viral passe. But whiledramatic episode endings certainly provided buzzy watercooler moments, they also served larger, necessary in-narrative purposes in that first year, advancing the season’s primary story in some significant way or adding new layers to characters we thought we knew.
Yes, eventually the show lost interest in more than half of its main characters, forgot that Gabriel Sylar was supposed to be an irredeemable monster, and got way too invested in the internal mythology of the secret organization called The Company that tracked people with abilities for various shady and nefarious reasons.
At this point, it’s almost too easy to mock the meteoric rise and subsequent calamitous fall of a show that went from national must-see to tragic joke in what felt like the blink of an eye. Buthonestly deserves more credit than it gets: not just for that near-perfect first season, but also for the way it irrevocably changed the genre television landscape.Season 1 was a bonafide smash hit, racking up eight Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe win for Best Television Drama.
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