I won’t waste my breath giving you a full review of the TV series Heroes, because if you don’t know what it is by now, I’m probably not going to convince you to watch. It’s been on TV long enough and had enough hype by now that I don’t think I need to do that.

I’m aiming this at people who have already seen Heroes, and most likely have moved on from the show because of it’s supremely unfortunate streak of terribleness. If that describes you, I have good news: Heroes stopped sucking again. No, really!

Some of the writers who made the first season absolutely fantastic have been brought back to the team, whereas they were woefully absent for quite some time. A few of the especially bad plot moves in early season 2 are being specifically written back out, so the show can get back on track and revisit the original issues. The story, while remaining at an escalated height of danger for all involved, is digging deeper into exploring the characters who happen to have powers rather than the powers that happen to belong to people, which is what made the series so great to begin with.

I forced myself to stick through the poor streak in the series, but believe me here. It’s getting good again, and the most recent episode (‘Cold Snap‘) was very, very good. Some old faces are coming back, some stray plot threads are being addressed, and horrible plot moves are being written out… and quite well.

Seriously, give it a shot. Use Hulu to get caught back up, but don’t start with the latest episode. The revelations within will make no damn sense if you do. I’d say start back at the beginning of this arc of Season 3, but that may be a bit much if you’re impatient. At least start a few episodes back so Cold Snap’s ‘oh shit’ moments actually mean something to you.

And I still have absolutely no idea who Noah is really working for in all of this.