Heroes

Released Date: September 25, 2006
End Date: February 8, 2010
Channel: NBC
Creator: Tim Kring
No. of  Season: 4 (77 episodes)

Main Plot:

The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters’ daily lives. In the early seasons, the plot is focusing on how each character finally realized that they have a special powers. What’re they gonna do with it? At the same time, several ordinary individuals are investigating the origins and extent of these abilities.

Soon, all of the individual who carries this special abilites will realize that their fate is connected by red thread with each other. Like in any other superhero comics or movies, thaere will be two factions, called “Heroes” and “Villains”. While battling with each other, there is also a third party named “The Company” who the ultimate goal is to control all the superpowered people, said that they’re too dangerous to be let free.

Heroes characters, from left: Hiro, Claire, Peter, Micah, Noah, Ando, Nathan, Matt, Nikki, Mohinder

Main Cast:

Jack Coleman as Noah Bennet (74 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Hayden Panettiere as Claire Bennet (74 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Milo Ventimiglia as Peter Petrelli (70 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura (66 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Sendhil Ramamurthy as Mohinder Suresh (63 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
James Kyson-Lee as Ando Masahashi (62 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Adrian Pasdar as Nathan Petrelli (61 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Zachary Quinto as Sylar (60 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman (59 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Ali Larter as Niki & Jessica Sanders/Tracy Strauss (53 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Cristine Rose as Angela Petrelli (53 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Ashley Crow as Sandra Bennet (40 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)

Additional Cast:

Jimmy Jean-Louis as The Haitian (32 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Noah Gray-Cabey as Micah Sanders (29 episodes, 2006-2009, season 1-3)
Randall Bentley as Lyle Bennet (20 episodes, 2006-2009, season 1-3)
Robert Knepper as Samuel Sullivan (19 episodes, 2009-2010, season 4)
Elizabeth Lackey as Janice Parkman (18 episodes, 2006-2010, season 1-4)
Santiago Cabrera as Isaac Mendez (17 episodes, 2006-2009, season 1-3)
Leonard Roberts as D.L. Hawkins (17 episodes, 2006-2007, season 1)
Dawn Olivieri as Lydia (16 episodes, 2009-2010, season 4)
Brea Grant as Daphne Millbrook (16 episodes, 2008-2009, season 3)
Adair Tishler as Molly Walker (16 episodes, 2006-2008, season 1-2)
David Anders as Adam Monroe (15 episodes, 2007-2010, season 2-4)
Dania Ramirez as Maya Herrera (15 episodes, 2007-2008, season 2-3)
Tawny Cypress as  Simone Deveaux (14 episodes, 2006-2007, season 1)
Kristen Bell as Elle Bishop (12 episodes, 2007-2008, season 2-3)

Note: Not all characters are included

Season Information:

When first aired in September 2006, Heroes 1st season run of 23 episodes garnered an average of 14.3 million viewers in the United States, receiving the highest rating for an NBC drama premiere in five years. The American Film Institute even named Heroes one of the ten “best television programs of the year.”

Too bad this was not continuing. The later seasons failed to met viewer’s expectations after the successful first season. The fourth and final season of Heroes was the lowest rated episode of the series to that point, averaging only 5.9 million viewers. Audiences and critics said that too many new characters being introduced, the pace is too slow, and less adrenaline compared to the first season.

Although executive producer Tim Kring was “fully expecting” a fifth season, on May 14, 2010, NBC decided that Heroes was indeed cancelled. This left the story a little bit hanging with unresolved issues, because at the finale episode of season four, Claire Bennet was revealing the existences of super-human to the world. We will never know how the “ordinary people” and the one with abilities finally can co-exist on earth.

Official Site:

On NBC: http://www.nbc.com/heroes/

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