+++Warning, this contains spoiler's from the final season of the original run of Heroes, but no major spoilers from Reborn+++
Heroes Reborn is a thirteen-episode miniseries that aired in 2015. It was a continuation of the original series Heroes, which aired from 2006-2010. Heroes was always a cult show, even though it aired on NBC. It predated the Marvel Cinematic Universe of movies that, arguably, brought the superhero genre into the mainstream by a couple of years. The first season of Heroes was nearly flawless, but the subsequent seasons had a lot of ups and downs and could not recapture the magic of the first season.
While the season is a continuation of the original series, it is not really a season 5. The series picks up after the real-world five-year time period between the end of season 4, in which Claire Bennett (played by Hayden Panettiere) exposed the Heroes, now known as "Evolved Humans" or "Evos" to the world, and a year after a terrorist attack at an event meant to bring Evos and humans together in Odessa, Texas. As in the original series, there are a bunch of individual storylines that cross over with each other at different points. The major storyline involves the shift in Earth's magnetic poles, and a plot to use the fact that Earth is vulnerable to solar radiation during that time. One of the best storylines involves Zachary Levi (from the great series Chuck) whose life was altered by the terrorist attack and who is hunting Evos. The show is mostly made up of new cast members, however, members of the original cast do appear throughout the series, including Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg), Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy), The Haitian René (Jimmy Jean-Louis), Angela Petrelli (Christine Rose), Micah Sanders (Noah Gray-Cabey), and Molly Walker (recast by Francesca Eastwood). The only main original series character who was a main character in this series is Noah Bennett, played by Jack Coleman. Notably, original series cast members like Milo Anthony Ventimiglia, Zachary Quinto, Ali Larter, and Adrian Pasdar did not return for the series, and Hayden Panettiere (who was starring in the series Nashville) was only shown in flashback clips.
For those who get the blu-ray set, the series looks and sounds great in HD, and the special effects are very well done and are seamlessly integrated with the practical shots. The extras include deleted scenes, a 10-minute long making-of featurette, and 42 minutes worth of prequel webisodes which bridges some of the gap in time between the original series and the event series. While the series event does provide the show with a bit better ending than the original run of the series got, it still suffered with some of what plagued the original series' later seasons. Specifically, trying to be clever with the twists and turns and just having one or two big twists. And, of course, introducing a bunch of new characters into an established world is always hard, but that was made easier by the fact that Noah Bennett was front and center of almost everything. So, even though it is not as great as the first season of the original show was, it is definitely worth watching and will probably give you a more satisfying end since it was not written with the expectation that there might be another season, as the ending of season four was.
Heroes Reborn is a thirteen-episode miniseries that aired in 2015. It was a continuation of the original series Heroes, which aired from 2006-2010. Heroes was always a cult show, even though it aired on NBC. It predated the Marvel Cinematic Universe of movies that, arguably, brought the superhero genre into the mainstream by a couple of years. The first season of Heroes was nearly flawless, but the subsequent seasons had a lot of ups and downs and could not recapture the magic of the first season.
While the season is a continuation of the original series, it is not really a season 5. The series picks up after the real-world five-year time period between the end of season 4, in which Claire Bennett (played by Hayden Panettiere) exposed the Heroes, now known as "Evolved Humans" or "Evos" to the world, and a year after a terrorist attack at an event meant to bring Evos and humans together in Odessa, Texas. As in the original series, there are a bunch of individual storylines that cross over with each other at different points. The major storyline involves the shift in Earth's magnetic poles, and a plot to use the fact that Earth is vulnerable to solar radiation during that time. One of the best storylines involves Zachary Levi (from the great series Chuck) whose life was altered by the terrorist attack and who is hunting Evos. The show is mostly made up of new cast members, however, members of the original cast do appear throughout the series, including Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg), Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy), The Haitian René (Jimmy Jean-Louis), Angela Petrelli (Christine Rose), Micah Sanders (Noah Gray-Cabey), and Molly Walker (recast by Francesca Eastwood). The only main original series character who was a main character in this series is Noah Bennett, played by Jack Coleman. Notably, original series cast members like Milo Anthony Ventimiglia, Zachary Quinto, Ali Larter, and Adrian Pasdar did not return for the series, and Hayden Panettiere (who was starring in the series Nashville) was only shown in flashback clips.
For those who get the blu-ray set, the series looks and sounds great in HD, and the special effects are very well done and are seamlessly integrated with the practical shots. The extras include deleted scenes, a 10-minute long making-of featurette, and 42 minutes worth of prequel webisodes which bridges some of the gap in time between the original series and the event series. While the series event does provide the show with a bit better ending than the original run of the series got, it still suffered with some of what plagued the original series' later seasons. Specifically, trying to be clever with the twists and turns and just having one or two big twists. And, of course, introducing a bunch of new characters into an established world is always hard, but that was made easier by the fact that Noah Bennett was front and center of almost everything. So, even though it is not as great as the first season of the original show was, it is definitely worth watching and will probably give you a more satisfying end since it was not written with the expectation that there might be another season, as the ending of season four was.
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