Heroes
BBC2, 9pm
God, did a show ever slump so quickly from awesome to boredom? It's disjointed and repetitive (the writers' strike didn't help but this "chapter" – who knows what series this is any more? – is yet another false start after the brilliant first season. This isn't "what's going on?" like Lost, it's self-contradictory, with a constant sense of "Oh, forget the last 13 episodes, this is the real story..."
And every time, a weaker and weaker story. They've got to stop everyone dying of the plague; no, they've got to stop everyone getting powers; wait, they've got to save people with powers from being locked up, or maybe killed, or was that in the last chapter?
Where did the startling originality of the first season go? The strands all leading to a climactic conclusion? Now you have Annekin Sylar, the troubled teen crossing to the dark side, and hamfisted Guantanamo and Iraq references (orange jumpsuits, "Did you think they'd welcome us as liberators?"). What a mess. Creator Tim Kring has promised that season 4 will be a new beginning, where you don't have to have watched any of the last few years' episodes. That's good – because if he were to rely on stalwart viewers, he's losing thousands by the week.
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