Heroes: "Company Man"
Feb. 28th, 2007 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteAs you probably know, I am not as sold on Heroes as many of you. I like a lot of what we get, but continue to have problems with a lot of the storytelling, acting and script. I started to watch it loyally, but never with much expectation. It just didn't show any sign of being great.
Till now.
"Company Man" was everything this show could be, if only the cast were smaller, the storytelling more focused, and the acting as uniformly strong. It was heart-breaking, well-paced, and full of surprises. It answered some questions without raising too many new ones. It took a handful of aspects of the show and brought them into focus. And it was relied almost entirely not on the gimmicky "everyone's connected" premise that after 17 weeks I find wearying, but on placing certain characters in certain situations and seeing how they would act.
In short, it was a fine drama that just happened involved people with super-powers or mysterious secrets.
And it was Jack Coleman's finest hour. Coleman, of course, plays Mr. Bennet. And he has taken a part that could have easily been played for melodrama and played it with sheer humanity instead. There are many reasons to watch this show - Hiro's quest, Clare's fate, and guest stars like Eric Roberts and Chris Eccleston and George Takei- but right now I'm watching to see what happened next with the man with the glasses.
Till now.
"Company Man" was everything this show could be, if only the cast were smaller, the storytelling more focused, and the acting as uniformly strong. It was heart-breaking, well-paced, and full of surprises. It answered some questions without raising too many new ones. It took a handful of aspects of the show and brought them into focus. And it was relied almost entirely not on the gimmicky "everyone's connected" premise that after 17 weeks I find wearying, but on placing certain characters in certain situations and seeing how they would act.
In short, it was a fine drama that just happened involved people with super-powers or mysterious secrets.
And it was Jack Coleman's finest hour. Coleman, of course, plays Mr. Bennet. And he has taken a part that could have easily been played for melodrama and played it with sheer humanity instead. There are many reasons to watch this show - Hiro's quest, Clare's fate, and guest stars like Eric Roberts and Chris Eccleston and George Takei- but right now I'm watching to see what happened next with the man with the glasses.
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Date: Feb. 28th, 2007 03:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Feb. 28th, 2007 06:09 pm (UTC)I am glued to the screen to see what else is coming, now.
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Date: Feb. 28th, 2007 11:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Mar. 1st, 2007 01:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Mar. 1st, 2007 01:57 am (UTC)I've been catching up on the show this week and...hm, yes, it works. Haven't seen "Company Man" yet--that's next on the watch list.
The Pilot episode wowed me and hooked me in, and so did the first few episodes. Then it started to look like the show I thought it was going to be wasn't...the show it was. But so many people have gently nudged me back towards it, I really began to feel I was depriving myself of something I needed to see. Those people were right. :)