Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-12-10
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 7
• Running time: 972 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's hard to remember a science fiction series that has hit so big so quickly. Yet by the end of the first series of Heroes, it feels--for all the right reasons--that the show's been around for longer than it has, such is the huge amount of success it's enjoyed.

The setup is simple, yet undeniably intriguing. It essentially tells the stories of a series of people who discover they have legitimate, differing superhero powers. On top of that, these people then gradually appreciate that these powers are needed for reasons that soon become apparent, and the story of Heroes builds up from there.

Heavily influenced by comics both in its structure and story, Heroes sustains interest through a number of story arcs of different magnitudes, skilfully weaving them throughout the 23 episodes that make up the season. It's contained enough to keep you interested, yet offers enough threads to make several more seasons a very appealing prospect.

Heroes, though, really gels because the basics are right. It's plotted intelligently, written and directed with real nerve and talent, and has a cast who you can't help but get emotionally involved with. It's also, for the overwhelming majority of its episodes, utterly compelling television. Ironically, its few miss-steps of any note come right at the back end, by which time you really would forgive it pretty much anything.

Heroes is rightly being heralded as a sci-fi classic in the making. Yet even if subsequent seasons don't fully do justice to those words--and at the time of writing, season two is still some way from debuting--this boxset will serve as a glowing testament to just how good television can be when it's just done right. Quite brilliant. --Jon Foster

Synopsis
Combining comic book style and geeky in-jokes, HEROES is a stellar series that draws comparisons to fan favourites such as LOST and THE X-FILES. But thanks to its well-drawn characters and intricate plot, this drama reels in more than just superhero fans. HEROES revolves around the premise of seemingly ordinary people developing fantastic powers. There's Claire (Hayden Panettiere, ICE PRINCESS), a Texas cheerleader who can't be killed. Matt (Greg Grunberg, ALIAS) is a cop in Los Angeles who can read minds. New Yorker Peter (Milo Ventimiglia, GILMORE GIRLS) has the power to adopt other heroes' abilities, while his politician brother (Adrian Pasdar, JUDGING AMY) has a special power of his own. Though the show boasts many other characters, its secret weapon is Hiro (Masi Oka), a Japanese office worker who is delighted to discover he can move through space and time. But heroes wouldn't be heroes if there weren't villains and a coming apocalypse to fight. Features the complete first series.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic

I'd heard rave reviews about Heroes but couldn't quite fathom how it was going to work into a whole season and possibly beyond. I had the same misgivings about Prison Break and have had to eat my words as not only did it work for one season, it worked for 2 and I can't wait to get my hands on season 3. Heroes falls into the same slot as Prison Break - I didn't think it would work but it not only works, it knocks spots off the competition.

The show focuses on eight characters, each of whom has a different power. Claire Bennett is a high school cheerleader with the power to regenerate when injured, DL Hawkins can phase through matter, Niki Sanders has super-strength, Isaac Mendez is an artist who paints the future, Hiro Nakamura is an office worker who can travel through time, LAPD Officer Matt Parkman has the power of telepathy, Nathan Petrelli is the ambitious politician who can fly, while his brother Peter is an in-home nurse with the ability to absorb others' powers when he is near them. For me, what separates Heores from other super-hero shows and movies is that each of our heroes has a flaw. We've got a drug addict, a depressive, an internet stripper and a politician to name but a few. How could Heroes not be a winner.

The cast in Heroes fit their characters perfectly and where other shows focus on the characters super-powers, Heroes steps out of the shadows and focuses on the characters and their links to each other. It makes for a fantastic first season and I'm currently waiting with baited breath for season 2 to wow me!

sylar will not steal your brain
If you do not buy this sylar will not steal your brain because you are most definitly not special, Best thing i have seen since Fire fly or Battlestar worth the money bring on season 2

A completely insulting show (with about 20 seconds of great material)
I've never felt so insulted by a show in my life. Heroes is a empty and predictable pit that vows to swallow all who lay eyes on it.

How it gets you? Every episode has a cliff hanger at the end, many of which are rather good and make you crave the next episode. However, the beginning of each episode has the most contrived, awful and unsatisfying cliff hanger resolution known to man.

Predictable: Watch the first 5 episodes and write down what you think will happen, but be sure to make it as bland as possible - you'll probably be right.

This show has a great potential, but the writers/creators are just not talented enough to make it work like it should. It could be GREAT. instead it's a mediocre TV show which treats it's viewers like 5 year olds.

Aside from CSI, this show has the worst writing in TV I've seen in a long time.

I'd recommend against buying very much. You'll never watch it more than once, and could hurt someone in your acts of unsatisfied destruction against the box set.

p.s: Google the creator. He apologised about the quality of the show. That says it all.