No Heroics: SciFi Wire review

There is a review of the No Heroics pilot Tom filmed in April on SciFi Wire.

This remake of the British comedy takes place in a world where some people are superheroes and follows four of these folk who have D-list superpowers. There's Crossfade (Eliza Coupe), who has short-term invisibility; Slamazon (Arielle Kebbel), who has superstrength and romance issues; Brainstorm (Tom Riley), a British bloke who can read minds; and Chillout (Paul Campbell), who can freeze small stuff and make duck-shaped ice cubes. The four superfriends hang out at The Watchtower, a bar filled with superheroes, with the likes of Horseforce (Josh Gad), who can summon horses, and A-list superhero Infinitum (Freddie Prinze Jr.), who has an ego larger than his super abilities. Created by Jeff Greenstein and Drew Pearce.

Would No Heroics have flown if it had made the schedule? Doubtful. This superhero farce has some funny moments, mostly involving the droll Brainstorm, but it's not The Tick. We would rather have seen creator Drew Pearce's British version jump the ocean. Of course, it would have had to run on HBO for content and language, and from what we've seen of the original, it's far funnier than the new version.