Heroes Review

What would you do if you suddenly realized that you had superpowers? Better still, what would Milo Ventimiglia, Adrian Pasdar, and a bunch of actors you've probably never heard of do when they discover the same? Will they save the world? Or at least NBC's Monday night lineup?
Heroes is a serial saga about people all over the world discovering that they have superpowers and trying to deal with how this change affects their lives.

Heroes produced by NBC/Universal/Tailwind.This new drama has been compared to shows like Lost and 24 with its complex plots and focuses on the characters in the stories, watching them grow and develop.

At its best, Heroes treats serialized sci-fi storytelling like a page-turning comic book. Empowered with whiplash story twists, reasonably good visual effects and the struggle against a dense conspiracy determined to bring the world as we know it to an end, the show's superheroes feel cursed, rather than blessed, by their gifts. When the machinery is humming, the real kick comes in watching ordinary people handle their extraordinary responsibilities.

Creator Tim Kring sums up the synopsis of the series like this in a recent interview, “The inspiration was that I wanted to do a large show and I started thinking about what would connect with an audience, and I started thinking about the idea that the world is a very complicated, confusing place for most people right now. With things like global warming, diminishing resources, terrorism, people are really feeling that something is amiss. That something has to give. So I started thinking about a show that sort of dealt with that in a way by populating the planet with various people that may be coming along to actually do something about these larger issues.”

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Lost Review

Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American serial drama television series. The series is produced by ABC Studios, Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and airs on the ABC Network in the United States. Co-created by J.J. Abrams of Alias and Felicity fame, Lost debuted on September 22, 2004.

After Oceanic Air Flight 815 tears apart in mid-air and crashes on a Pacific island on September 22nd 2004, its survivors are forced to find inner strength they never knew they had in order to survive. But they discover that the island holds many secrets, including a mysterious smoke monster, polar bears, housing with electricity and hot & cold running water, a group of island residents known as "The Others," and a mysterious man named Jacob. The survivors also find signs of those who came to the island before them, including a 19th century sailing ship called The Black Rock and the ruins of an ancient statue, as well as bunkers belonging to the Dharma Initiative a group of scientific researchers who inhabited the island in the recent past.

The survivors forced to rely upon one another to stay alive, this diverse group shares a number of sinister secrets and oft-unsavory interrelationships, with the truth behind each character revealed piecemeal via flashbacks and little-unexpected twists of plot. Adding to the suspense, at least during the series' first season, was the apparent presence of a person not on the passenger list, who seemed determined to bump off the hapless castaways one by one, and a mysterious, terrifying yet unseen monster-like creature.

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Las Vegas Review

Created by Gary Scott Thompson, NBC's Las Vegas was the sort of flamboyant ensemble series in which important plot points and details of character motivation were cunningly revealed slowly. This fast-paced, sexy drama follows the elite Las Vegas surveillance team charged with maintaining the security of one of "Sin City's" largest resorts and casinos. Las Vegas rolled into town September 22, 2003.

Television icon Tom Selleck joins the cast this year as A.J. Cooper the mysterious rancher who takes the reigns as the new owner of the Montecito Resort & Casino. Danny McCoy, an ex-U.S. Marine and Las Vegas native, (Josh Duhamel, "All My Children," "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton," "Turistas," and the upcoming "Transformers: The Movie") heads the surveillance team and deals with card-counting cheaters, costly streaks of random luck and rival casinos stealing their big-money players.

Rounding out this cast of high rollers is Delinda Deline (Molly Sims "The Benchwarmers," MTV's House of Style"), Danny's love interest and the daughter of his old boss, the Montecito's former premier surveillance chief; the previous all-knowing valet who climbed the ranks to be an integral surveillance team member, Mike Cannon (James Lesure, "For Your Love"), and the ever wheeling and dealing casino host, Samantha "Sam" Jane Marquez (Vanessa Marcil, "General Hospital," "Beverly Hills, 90210").

Welcome to the Montecito Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, where you can do anything you want... but Ed Deline and his crack surveillance team will be watching. Just remember, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas...

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The O.C. Review

The O.C. - also known as Orange County, California - is an idyllic paradise, a wealthy, harbor-front community where everything and everyone appears to be perfect. But beneath the surface is a world of shifting loyalties and identities, of kids living secret lives hidden from their parents and of parents living secret lives hidden from their children.

The O.C. is one of those great shows you can catch on TV late at night, and you expect it to be on when nothing else is. It is packed full of humor that almost anyone can relate to, and includes problems that real people can actually understand. Rather than watching some crazy soap opera with twisted story lines.
The first new FOX network series of the 2003-2004 season, The O.C. was co-produced and co-created by McG, director of the Charlie's Angels theatrical films, and Josh Schwartz. Produced by Warner Brothers TV, College Hill Pictures, Wonderland and Hypnotic Productions

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