ON THE PRECIPICE: "HEROES" SEASON FOUR

HEROES to the end. Images: NBC UNIVERSAL.

They've survived the veritable demise of their normal everyday lives, have faced guilt and loss over the death of their family and friends, been forced to deal with betrayal from foes old and new, and even from parties within their own core distinctive group, overcome terrible hard-ships and life-threatening adversity, and, more recently, escaped from the clutches of persecution as underground fugitives from a mutant-phobic world's political powers and a cold sentence of isolation and control/experimentation on a Guantanamo-esque island, and now our HEROES, from the series created by Tim Kring, face the complex and bizarre new threats, consequences and further challenging actions, for good or bad, emanating outwards from the arrival of a mysterious travelling carnivale and its weird and wonderful inhabitants, led by the mysterious and dangerous Samuel Sullivan (PRISON BREAK/STARGATE SGU's distinctive Robert Knepper) in this, the fourth and final season, of the once acclaimed HEROES, showing exclusively from today (every Monday) in glorious HD on the SYFY CHANNEL.

Leader and disciple: new characters Samuel Sullivan (Robert Knepper) and the lightning fast Edgar (STAR WARS Ray Park) make their mark on our heroes.

It's by no means a perfect ending to the series; its pacing and structure very much all over the place in certain episodes, and key moments of plot development, as well as the appearance and use of the often isolated main characters, seem stretched out over the series run further than they should have been, but you have to hand it to the shows creator and his producing team for bravely, and against much criticism, continuing to develop, experiment and stretch the envelope of the series format and its dramatic presentation as best they can and try to win the hearts and minds of old and new audiences, with a few great and genuine exciting moments still remaining here and there amongst the nineteen episodes comprising the run that strive to remind us all just how good and unique the series first was when it started, and how it never really recovered from the 2007/8 writers strike which hit it in its all-important, and sadly abbreviated, second year. HEROES R.I.P. - your mark in KOOL TV has been made...

Check our our previous blogs on the series.


All four seasons of HEROES are available on DVD and Blu-ray from NBC UNIVERSAL.