“Heroes” could be a cautionary tale after a tantalizingly strong first season, poor character development and sluggish pacing crippled the show, starting in its second year. Tasked with stretching out their story for a year’s worth of episodes, the producers say they want the first season of “No Ordinary Family” to feel like the first 45 minutes of a comic-book-hero movie, the time when superpowers are discovered and tried out for the first time.Īs escapist entertainment, “No Ordinary Family” is in the same vein as “Heroes,” the science-fiction show that NBC canceled this year after four seasons. The first episode is available now online.īadly in need of a hit, ABC hopes that “No Ordinary Family” will garner some of the critical and audience affection that was showered on “Lost” until that show’s finale in May. It will have its debut on Tuesday night at 8, a week after most of the season’s new television shows. Now he is the patriarch of “No Ordinary Family,” an ABC drama that is suitable even for 11-year-old Odessa, his younger daughter. Vic Mackey, the antihero on “The Shield,” a gritty crime drama on FX that he did not let his own children watch. “If I seem a little on edge” he paused for effect “it’s because I am!”įor seven years Mr. In between takes, he was back to being a dad whose real 16-year-old daughter, Autumn, was for the first time driving in the city on her own. On a Disney soundstage on a recent afternoon, he was playing a dad whose 16-year-old daughter was threatening to reveal that their family had attained superpowers. The actor Michael Chiklis, wearing a suit jacket riddled with bullet holes, seemed fretful, though not about the bullets.
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