Not to bagging on Lost, but Heroes’ failures had nothing to do with its approach to serialization. I don’t think that the show would’ve been better had they dragged out (or decompressed, to use a less loaded term) S1's plot over multiple seasons. That would’ve just been frustrating.

Profit is the rare tv show that actually deserves a reboot. The dark, serialized storytelling, anti-heroic protagonist  and thematic focus on capitalism,morality and trauma are more relevant than ever. It was a good idea that never fulfilled its promise.

Masi Oka also made it big for a while, though I don’t know if he ended up being problematic or not nowadays.

Heroes died when it turned in to the creator’s grade school DBZ fanfic.

I didn’t watch LOST, but I did watch the similar genre shows like Heroes and...oof, FlashForward

Sylar as the third Petrelli was Vulcan being the third Summers brother all over again.

Nissan Versa!

The Nissan product placement was so jarring. I remember a subplot where Noah bought Claire a Nissan Rogue, and they spent minutes (an eternity in context) with her just fawning over it and doing beauty shots, such as they were. And then it got stolen in the same episode to explain why she didn’t have it beyond that…

Yeah, but Heroes failures kind of vindicated the Lost approach in the long run.  Heroes may not have “dragged out” mysteries but as a result they blew their load quickly and had to introduces increasingly outlandish nonsense in order to keep up the pace and they ran out of ideas quickly while Lost managed to mostly…

No shade to Zachary Quinto but I was pretty tired of Sylar after a couple of seasons. That weird storyline where they tried to make him part of the Petrelli family for a bit didn’t do much for me either.

‘Heroes’ had a lot of problems, but I think its biggest mistake was keeping the existence of superhumans a secret year after year. I really wanted season one to finish with the world learning about people with powers and the stories to start focussing on what kind of world that would be (hopefully in a more varied and…

The writing for Sylar jumped the rails so many times that I think the train ended up under water, but somehow Quinto managed to put in a compelling performance all the way through. I think the writers could have said, “Okay, Sylar is a birthday clown named Wappo now, and his only power is making balloon animals that…

I actually stayed with it until the bitter end. And it was bitter.

Heroes did give us the cringe inducing “You got me the Nissan Rogue! I can’t believe you got me the Nissan Rogue!”*

I like that Milo Ventimiglia isn’t afraid to lampoon himself and play any cornball thing that comes his way, like being in a fake show-within-a-show on The league, or Con Man or whatever dumb Lifetime drama he’s in these days.

Adrian Pasdar should always be known for Near Dark and for Profit.

Hey now, Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia weren’t so bad either. I really like Pasdar’s occasional guest appearances on Agents of SHIELD, and people seem to really love Ventimiglia’s role on This is Us. Masi Oka also made it big for a while, though I don’t know if he ended up being problematic or not nowadays.

To me, the only genuinely great thing to come out of Heroes was Zachary Quinto. From memory, he was a no-name actor who immediately rocketed from a guest part into a central focus and Quinto was always able to at least energize the show when it was sorely needing it. The fact that Quinto has a steady career and seems…

Yeah, I’ve even read the wiki page about all this and I still can’t wrap my head around what exactly was going on with this Esquire hoax.

Fun weird fact on how her career started: The story was a hoax: Larter “starred” as a fictitious actress named Allegra Coleman, who was, in the magazine’s words, “Hollywood’s next dream girl.” Larter assumed the job would end with a paycheck and a thank-you. Not quite. Casting directors saw the photos, and suddenly…