'Heroes': Season 2's Best and Worst
NBC's great sci-fi hope actually led lots of fans to abandon hope thanks to a sophomore slump. Jeff Jensen recalls the creative valleys and the occasional peaks that have (against all odds) kept us excited for season 3
By Jeff Jensen Updated September 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM EDT
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Hayden Panettiere, Heroes (Season 2 -- Episode 4: The Kindness of Strangers)
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Masi Oka, Heroes (Season 2 -- Episode 1: Four Months Later)
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Greg Grunberg, Sendhil Ramamurthy, ...
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Milo Ventimiglia, Heroes (Season 2 -- Episode 1: Four Months Later)
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Hayden Panettiere, Heroes (Season 2 -- Episode 4: The Kindness of Strangers)
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Kristen Bell, Heroes
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Dania Ramirez, Heroes (Season 2 -- Episode 1: Four Months Later)
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Heroes (Season 2 -- Episode 5: Fight or Flight)
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Zachary Quinto, Heroes (Season 2 -- Episode 11: Powerless)
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Heroes (Season 2 -- Episode 3: Kindred)
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Heroes, Heroes (Season 1 -- Episode 10: Six Months Ago) | Heroes recap: Stop. Hammer Time. In this new origin story, we learned that Noah Bennet was once a charmingly befuddled car salesman who sent nice-looking
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By Jeff Jensen