Dropping Heroes’ Dead Weight Could Shock Show Out of Slump

Dropping Heroes’ Dead Weight Could Shock Show Out of Slump:

A TV show that posits a future where everyone has genetically engineered superpowers shouldn’t be recycling tired prime-time drama and resurrecting exhausted plots and left-for-dead villains. It should be blowing away expectations. After all, this isn’t ER.

But in the first part of Heroes’ third season, it sure has felt like we’ve been lying on a gurney, waiting for last rites.

Note: the article does contain some season 3 spoilers, so consider yourself warned.

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