Heroes - Season 1 Complete [2006]

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's hard to remember a science fiction series that has hit so big so quickly. Yet by the end of the first series of Heroes, it feels--for all the right reasons--that the show's been around for longer than it has, such is the huge amount of success it's enjoyed.

The setup is simple, yet undeniably intriguing. It essentially tells the stories of a series of people who discover they have legitimate, differing superhero powers. On top of that, these people then gradually appreciate that these powers are needed for reasons that soon become apparent, and the story of Heroes builds up from there.

Heavily influenced by comics both in its structure and story, Heroes sustains interest through a number of story arcs of different magnitudes, skilfully weaving them throughout the 23 episodes that make up the season. It's contained enough to keep you interested, yet offers enough threads to make several more seasons a very appealing prospect.

Heroes, though, really gels because the basics are right. It's plotted intelligently, written and directed with real nerve and talent, and has a cast who you can't help but get emotionally involved with. It's also, for the overwhelming majority of its episodes, utterly compelling television. Ironically, its few miss-steps of any note come right at the back end, by which time you really would forgive it pretty much anything.

Heroes is rightly being heralded as a sci-fi classic in the making. Yet even if subsequent seasons don't fully do justice to those words--and at the time of writing, season two is still some way from debuting--this boxset will serve as a glowing testament to just how good television can be when it's just done right. Quite brilliant. --Jon Foster

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Customer reviews

review by: Rags date: 2008-06-12 rating:
A Heroic Venture
Heroes is brilliant. Mythology and good comics have always been used larger than life characters to juxtapose courage and talent against doubt, vulnerability and personal struggle. Heroes nearly always alwats gets this balance right. The characters, like the beautiful cheerleader whose talent exposes her to predators, are perfectly pitched to develop these themes. Like real life and its inspiring moments, its a bit cheesy now and then. Nonetheless its heroic message of hope admid a sea of darkness is strongly conveyed. This is great popular art.

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review by: scifihorror fan date: 2008-05-31 rating:
VOL 1-GENESIS=AMAZING!!
what i want to say has already been said so I'm going to keep this quite basic by saying this show has to be one of the greatest shows ever made and is definitely in my top ten list along with-BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER,SOUTH PARK,PUSHING DAISIES,DOCTOR WHO,ALIAS,DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES,THE SIMPSONS,TORCHWOOD,and THE TWILIGHT ZONE.
all episodes are fantastic and it never ever drags like LOST or 24,and never resorts to immature silliness like ChArMed(seasons 1-3 and 7-8)and is always engaging with its intended audience...i hope the show continues for quite a few years and i hope to purchase this in the near future along with the steady going second season:).
the episode five years gone is a classic episode and the finale is explosive:):)i love it sooooooooooo much.
buy now

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review by: celticshedevil date: 2008-04-22 rating:
Fantastic

I'd heard rave reviews about Heroes but couldn't quite fathom how it was going to work into a whole season and possibly beyond. I had the same misgivings about Prison Break and have had to eat my words as not only did it work for one season, it worked for 2 and I can't wait to get my hands on season 3. Heroes falls into the same slot as Prison Break - I didn't think it would work but it not only works, it knocks spots off the competition.

The show focuses on eight characters, each of whom has a different power. Claire Bennett is a high school cheerleader with the power to regenerate when injured, DL Hawkins can phase through matter, Niki Sanders has super-strength, Isaac Mendez is an artist who paints the future, Hiro Nakamura is an office worker who can travel through time, LAPD Officer Matt Parkman has the power of telepathy, Nathan Petrelli is the ambitious politician who can fly, while his brother Peter is an in-home nurse with the ability to absorb others' powers when he is near them. For me, what separates Heores from other super-hero shows and movies is that each of our heroes has a flaw. We've got a drug addict, a depressive, an internet stripper and a politician to name but a few. How could Heroes not be a winner.

The cast in Heroes fit their characters perfectly and where other shows focus on the characters super-powers, Heroes steps out of the shadows and focuses on the characters and their links to each other. It makes for a fantastic first season and I'm currently waiting with baited breath for season 2 to wow me!

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review by: date: 2008-04-07 rating:
sylar will not steal your brain
If you do not buy this sylar will not steal your brain because you are most definitly not special, Best thing i have seen since Fire fly or Battlestar worth the money bring on season 2


review by: Daniel Nicholls date: 2008-04-02 rating:
A completely insulting show (with about 20 seconds of great material)
I've never felt so insulted by a show in my life. Heroes is a empty and predictable pit that vows to swallow all who lay eyes on it.

How it gets you? Every episode has a cliff hanger at the end, many of which are rather good and make you crave the next episode. However, the beginning of each episode has the most contrived, awful and unsatisfying cliff hanger resolution known to man.

Predictable: Watch the first 5 episodes and write down what you think will happen, but be sure to make it as bland as possible - you'll probably be right.

This show has a great potential, but the writers/creators are just not talented enough to make it work like it should. It could be GREAT. instead it's a mediocre TV show which treats it's viewers like 5 year olds.

Aside from CSI, this show has the worst writing in TV I've seen in a long time.

I'd recommend against buying very much. You'll never watch it more than once, and could hurt someone in your acts of unsatisfied destruction against the box set.

p.s: Google the creator. He apologised about the quality of the show. That says it all.

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