‘Heroes Reborn’ Premiere Recap & Review: The Heroes Are Back In NBC’s Reboot

June 13 is the new 9/11 in the premiere of NBC’s Heroes Reborn. Odessa, “a once thriving city in central Texas” is struck by a terroriist attack on this day one year prior. That is the premise to the new show, and as hard as it is to believe that any city like Odessa could be called “thriving,” it is equally harder to believe that it would be a strategic enough target for terrorists with a nuclear bomb. Heroes Reborn, a reboot of the original Heroes, is the story of people with mysterious powers who are hunted for being different and are consequently blamed for every major disaster.

‘Heroes Reborn’ Recap

The series kicks off with a monologue from the lead, Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman). He’s making good with his daughter, Claire. He is at an event that has people both celebrating and protesting. This is the big moment: June 13. The nuclear blast comes out of nowhere. Noah survives, takes his glasses from the ash and begins calling for Claire.

The next scene is of a group of enhanced humans formulating a plan keep each other safe. This turns out to be a fruitless discussion and ends with Tommy Clarke (Robbie Kay) leaving the main villain revealing himself. Zachary Levi play Luke Collins, an impostor sitting in on a meeting who massacres everybody attending. We quickly find out that these are dark, complicated characters.

We then have a a speech delivered by Carlos Gutierrez (Ryan Guzman) about what it means to be a hero. What could he mean? Is he talking about enhanced humans, the power of the human spirit? And we finally find Noah’s daughter. She’s a teacher and having a secret romance with Carlos. He is somehow tied to Luke, and they appear to be close.

Noah catches a someone stalking him at his home and confronts him. Quentin Frady (Henry Zebrowski) is following him because of his ties to PrimaTech, the supposed target of the June 13 attack. Noah believes that his daughter died on that day, and when Quentin starts spilling secrets, they’re hard for Noah to accept.

America isn’t the only place with heroes. Miko Otomo, played by Kiki Sukezane is recognized by a man named Toru who recognizes her from a comic book. He knows her by the ribbon in her hair. She doesn’t know she is a hero until she draws a samurai sword which transports her into the world of Anime. She happens to be a master swordsman kills four attackers at random.

Back in the real world, Noah meets with a friend from the past name Renee. Quentin warned him that his memory hadwiped by this same person, so Noah is investigating what he doesn’t remember. Renee seems like pretty Zen guy, but then tries to garrote Noah beneath an overpass. Renee picked the wrong man and is killed by Noah who deeply regrets what went down. Renee had apparently wiped Noah’s memory to protect himself. When Noah came back to investigate, Renee decided he had no choice but to kill him to protect whatever information was in his memory.

Miko explores the animated world looking for her missing father, and is accomponied by Toru who joins in from his computer. Tommy experiments with his power to make things disappear by trying rid the world of his former bully’s abusive step dad. Luke explores ways to further eliminate enhanced humans. Noah and Quentin explore the site of the PrimaTech paper factory destroyed along with the rest of Odessa, Tex,. After going through surviving paperwork, Noah realizes that his daughter may not be dead after all.

The new series is vast in scope and has a large cast of characters. To build a story around this premise on such a large scale is certainly ambitious for producers of the show, which makes up for the cheesy dialogue and poorly executed anime sequences.

Pictured: Zachary Levi as Luke Collins.