Notes to the Producers

To the producing team for HEROES:

It's really cool that you've brought New Orleans into the mix. Let's face it, never has a city in our country needed a superhero more. (What they'd really need is for Monica to watch on television an example of a great leader, and then she could run for mayor, and ... but I digress.)

But there are enough native New Orleanians living here in Los Angeles that you could, pretty easily, do the tiniest bit of fact-checking.

"Half the people in this county are living in FEMA trailers," Monica said.

Which would be fine ... if there were such a thing as a "county" in Louisiana.

There isn't.

And the accents! Everybody sounds like they're from deep in Mississippi ... the worst offender being Monica's co-worker at the burger place. And I was willing to accept that, and justified it in my head as "hey, maybe she moved here from elsewhere in the south, either before or after the storm, it's not like no one with an accent *lives* there ..." Until they set up that the two of them had been friends since kindergarten.

Sigh.

It's not hard, folks. Take a page out of K-Ville's book.



Yes, OK, they're actually THERE ... and sometimes they try a little TOO hard ... but at least they're trying.