E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

Heroes , the second season, has recently begun airing in Britain on the BBC, and, while it doesn't seem like Kring and Co. have quite reached " jumping the shark " waters yet, the steep decline in quality, since last season's bravura ending, is almost shocking. I am not sure what is worse - Hiro, in feudal Japan, playing some sort of Sancho Panza/ Rostand -character (second fiddle) to a drunk, dissembling Englishman (the sets feel like 70s TV to me) in a dull and uninviting B-plot - or Peter waking up in "Cork, Ireland" in a shipping container. The Cork scenes make Angela's Ashes seem shiny and new: the Irish thieves / pub owners (no stereotypes here) are dressed like they're out of Ryan's Daughter , and say things like "for the love of Mike" - or is that "Pete"? The Irish set has goods in shop windows priced in Sterling - whereas the Celtic tiger has been using the Euro for some time now. Meanwhile, Peter's brother, who...