In case you were worried that Heroes Reborn would continue after its January 21 finale—and lord knows I was—you may now breathe a sigh of relief that Tommy the Teleporting Boy, Chuck on Fire, Rejected ‘90s Sega Mascot Samurai Girl will no longer darken your TV screen.
Not that anyone had ever said the dread words “Heroes Reborn season 2" out loud, but NBC confirmed the franchise is done yet again. Via TV Line:
“As far as I know there are no more incarnations of Heroes coming,” NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt told reporters Wednesday at the Television Critics Assoc. winter press tour in Pasadena, adding that it was “always the plan” to do just one season “unless [series creator] Tim [Kring] woke up one day and said, ‘Oh, I have another chapter to tell.’
In Heroes Reborn’s defense, I will say that the show was, on occasion, inoffensively mediocre. On the other hand, it also occasionally wasn’t
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