I don't think I've ever seen a TV show go from great to awful so quickly. I stopped watching after the second season, and by that point, it was already almost willfully bad. How many dystopian futures could Hiro jump to? Why was Peter always so stupid? Has any TV show ever looked more desperate in pandering to its audience than by giving Hayden Panettiere a lesbian roommate who wanted to save the cheerleader from heterosexuality?
The really annoying thing is that Heroes did so many things right. The first season was fantastic, it had a surprisingly great cast, and the online comics posted on NBC.com were usually pretty good. (It was also nice that a show about superheroes embraced comic books, instead of running away from them, even if a few of the show's plots were suspiciously similar to Watchmen, X-Men, etc.)
Anyway, it was a long overdue mercy killing. To celebrate both shows' respective fortunes, here's a performance from Jeffster!. If you're not watching Chuck, this is the kind of stuff you're missing out on.
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