Heroes Reborn Review: The Lion’s Den

Season 1 / Episode 5 / NBC Picking up after Molly Walker shot herself in the head, which is right after she told Noah Bennet “forget the past, save the future” A.K.A. “you better to check yourself before you wreck yourself,” HRG Quentin and Taylor make their escape out of Renautas and find a giant sperm bank in the left wing of the building. Renautas plans to annihilate about 90-ish percent of the world and start over from scratch with the seeds Erica has chilling in the fridge. Let’s address this here real quick. How exactly this plan is going to work is unbeknownst to me. Perot, you can’t just Octomom yourself a whole nother population. This is evil-villain-plans-to-destroy-the-world-to-better-the-world-by-repopulating-it-with-the-type-of-people-they-bang-with fantasy plot line 101. You have two options. Clones or robots. Since Luke finally told Joanne that he is an Evo, the relationship has come to a screeching halt. Luke goes back to the crib and for the rest of the episode he is re-enacting a low budget version of Usher’s “Let it Burn” music video. In the closing scene for Luke, which is the only semi-interesting thing that happens for him in this episode, he sets the house on fire due to his new found heartbreak, walks off in slow motion, flames swallowing the abode behind him while I’m in my room belting “so many days / so many hours / I’m still burning till you return!”

We get to know a little bit more about Malina and Farrah this episode. Last week we saw that Malin…