NBC has released this thirty second teaser for their upcoming Heroes replacement television show, The Cape. Featuring Keith David and Summer Glau, the show stars David Lyons as “Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force, who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving behind his wife, Dana (Jennifer Ferrin, “Life on Mars”) and son, Trip (Ryan Wynott, “Flash Forward”). Fueled by a desire to reunite with his family and to battle the criminal forces that have overtaken Palm City, Faraday becomes “The Cape” his son’s favorite comic book superhero — and takes the law into his own hands.”
What gets me about this is this is the first time I’ve seen on NBC or ABC an actual super hero, cape and all. Heroes was a rather notorious tease, and has Smallville put Superman’s cape on him yet? No? Ok. So this show has the full get up as well as special “super hero effects”, such as the magic cape with the magic smoke that is definitely not Batman. Snarky comments aside, this could be pretty entertaining all things considered.
The show will air as a two-hour pilot in January. Look for a review from us around the same time.
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