Has anyone been watching MISFITS on E4?

I watched the first episode on 4od yesterday out of curiosity and then immediately watched the second. It looks like it might turn out to be the best of the new C4 teen dramas.

Six young offenders turn up for community service, get caught up in some kind of freak storm, then weird shit starts going down - axe-murderers, super-powers, visions of the future, that kind of thing. A lot better than the 'Skins with an ASBO' it had marketed as, although it's also very funny and involving as well. Any thoughts?

Yeah, saw the first two eps and liked it a lot. Much better than the trailer suggested and as you say, v. funny and well written. One of the newspaper reviews likened it to Dead Set and that is otm, although nothing like as bleak (yet).

I can't seem to get 4OD to work, should those 2 episodes still be on there?

Yeah 4OD tends to keep them sitting around in perpetuity.

Also the zingy Irish kid is really funny.

I am loving zingy Irish kid: 'anus, ball sack, cock!'

Seems to work on Opera, but not on my particular Firefox set up (I presume because of some combination of the various adblock & flashblock etc. add-ons I have running). Ah well.

I liked that first episode a lot. Very funny. I'm in.

Watched the first two episodes of this and wasn't impressed. I find the Irish kid intensely irritating. Much prefer Cast Offs of the post-Skins offerings from Channel 4.

I meant to watch Cast Offs afterwards but irritatingly couldn't find it on 4OD.

4OD is very quixotic when it comes to putting some of their programmes up. Sometimes I've waited two days for a Daily Show episode.

I quite like this show! They buried the bodies of the asbo kid and the probation guy under the motorway in Boston Manor.

Spoiler!?

I've seen the first episode; I meant for those that haven't, avert your eyes from jel's last post.

oh sorry, I just assumed we were all young and edgy and seen it already :/

Just watched the first episode; not bad.

Though the second one's a bit of a mess TBH.

Third one worked for me.

Third episode, still not entirely convinced. The pacing's kinda odd. I'm quite into the characters already though. Will continue to watch.

I'm still in.

Terrific episode last night, probably the best so far. It struck me just how well shot this is too, kudos to the DP.

Agreed, it looked great last night. I really enjoyed all the club scenes particularly, tense and exciting.

Yeah best episode yet - bit of a Desmond-from-Lost vibe going on there. Also Nathan is hilarious, loved the explanation of how he got arrested. My guess is that his power is he's invincible.

Was the dude who arrested Curtis the same guy who played the policeman in the Blink episode of Dr Who? Does he only play coppers in weird time-travel episodes or something?

I was trying to work out what Nathan's superpower might be.

For some of the others it struck me that their superpower is a development of something that they can do anyway...

Alisha's pulling power
Simon's invisibility

Cutis's time travel kind of makes in a most iffy way to do with his speed on the race track - running faster than time or some bullshit...
Kelly's mind reading - ?

Make any sense?

If you watch the opening titles, there's an effect against all of them as you see them. You can make sense of all of them except Nathan, who seems to have something that looks like a wolf. Is this just a reference to his Mum's bf?

Yeah a bit, that occurred to me when I saw the reaction of the probation officer after his car got nicked, like the storm amplified his anger and turned him into a homicidal maniac.

Curtis = something to do with regret maybe? This episode stressed that quite a lot.

I had no idea what time of day this was supposed to be taking place - it was daylight, but they were out clubbing. Nathan's dad complained about being called out in the middle of the night, which could make it about 5am which is no time for a pair of nice middle-class probation workers to be out bowling. It didn't seem to make a great deal of sense.

My guess is that his power is he's invincible.

I thought that too, when he was the miracle survivor in the alternative timeline (though another explanation is he managed to escape and hide and left the others to die and lied about it afterwards).

No, Nathan said that he was found barely alive underneath the bodies of the others and had plenty of stitches on his face to back that up.

Alternate timeline suggests the probation officer was a ticking time bomb anyway.

So he can be injured but can't die maybe?

Nathan's an excellent character, you laugh at the zings but completely understand everyone wanting to punch him. If I was Beverly I'd have smacked him with a bowling pin.

I can't remember what Nathan's mum sounded like but I think she was English(?) and his dad is Press Gang dude with a London accent so I'm wondering where the Irish accent comes from (Ireland duh, but how?).

Just watched Ep 5. Woah.

Incredibly thick-skinned guy, makes sense.

Second the WHOA and raise yis an EEEUWWWW.

Those last 5 minutes or so were great.

Ok, wasn't too sure about this show but that last episode was a cracker.

otm - I enjoyed the whole series. Wonder who the random BMX bandit that saved Nathan from the Virtue lot was? Good idea to have a few loose ends if they're likely to get a recommission though, ideally with a Kill Bill 2 style out-of-the-grave opening.

According to wikipedia a new series has been commissioned and the BMX guy is "Superhoodie"

Not wholly convinced by the virtue thing as it took it away from the main characters and felt a bit rushed, but it was still a good finish. Definitely up for a second run.

Am I the only one who thinks this could have been improved 100 fold if they'd left out the Irish guy, or maybe chosen a different actor? He's fucking rubbish.

Was anyone sad enough to watch the video diary thingys on the Misfits website? Why was the irish lad irish (and so convincingly irritating) you may ask? Look at the video diaries and you'll see that he is exactly the same in real life. It would be a leap of imagination to to say the the others are 'acting' too.

Without him I don't know if it would have worked though.

He was so horrible and obnoxious whenever he was on the screen but whenever he was absent it was just jarring.

I really liked this show, but fuck this 6 episodes a season British thing, I don't know how you can stand it.

My brother went to college with that guy and has confirmed the "exactly the same in real life" bit. He got better as the series went on i think.

New series starts tonight!

Stoked.

Am I the only one who thinks this could have been improved 100 fold if they'd left out the Irish guy, or maybe chosen a different actor? He's fucking rubbish.

Wrong yet again.

"You buried me alive, you dicks"

Yeah wtf his character is hilarious

Watched the interview on DS and although it's kind of spoilery I don't see it reducing my enjoyment at all.

Excited!

That was good though, wasn't it?

monkeyslut!

Yup. I believe i criticized Robert Sheehan upthread but i think he's fantastic now.

I love how non-stop ridiculous it is. Huge lol @ "I think we can rule me out..."

Was it just me thinking "you might as well stay on the pipe, at least then we'll know it's not you"?

Haven't seen the first ep of s2 yet, but really enjoyed the first series. My only complaint is that the show itself didn't seem to know how widespread the people-getting-powers thing was. The misfits are all 'Keep our powers secret, we'll be experimented on!', but it seems as though half the city has them, But nobody in the wider world seems to have noticed, or to care. Hope they clarify things a bit this series.

That was awesome.

Fast-paced, funny, exciting, confusing, intriguing - hurrah!

fucking brilliant - really good to have this back.

Robert Sheehan FTW and FUIUD, basically.

Loved this to the point where I think I will be re-watching it before I start any writing today.

Nobody?

Really liked that ep. And lots of great lines. Didn't pick the dad as Dexter Fletcher until right at the end.

Tempted to rewatch the images in the time-traveller's eye as he winds back from the future, but I don't want to spoil any surprises either.

I was busy on Thursday night, but am really looking forward to catching up tonight. I will report back later...

Was going to bump this myself, I only watched it last night.

I haven't rewatched the images or read any spoilers (other than noticing Wikipedia now has a column for 'drug-induced inverted power) but I reckon Superhoodie is an effect of Curtis moving so far forward in time - we never usually see him getting there or back, but it must happen, right? So I reckon it's Curtis using the knowledge he gained when he's on the rooftop in costume fixing the things that need to happen for him to get to that position (end of the series?) along the way. Dunno how him saving himself last week works under that logic though.

I must admit, the two main things driving it are that they bothered to show us he was black (his hands on the railing before he left the balcony) and the look to the person on the sofa under the duvet in the flat implying that he knew it was hers.

Nice one! Didn't pick up that at all, but it makes sense.

This show is ridiculous, but also great fun! OTT theatrical-style acting, stuff that only reaches Butterlfy-Effect levels of sense - but I watch and enjoy it every week. Why does Nathan turn up to his community service, fully uniformed, when he's been dead for a number of days?? Who cares? Why hasn't anyone with powers been to see a doctor? Who cares? Why has no one sent the police round yet ? Who cares??

I reckon Superhoodie is an effect of Curtis moving so far forward in time

Yeah that's what I thought - seems a bit obvious, tho.

Didn't see that coming!

Seems they either have a lot to cram into the remaining episodes (it is a 6-parter again isn't it?) or they're guaranteed another series.

She had lovely little hands, like a midget's.

Excellent again last night. I dig the balance between stirring stuff and levity that they're striking this series - like last night the revelation in parkour-boy's hideout was really gripping but then 10 mins later you've got Nathan pleading with Simon for some dry-humping.

No talk about ep6? Awesome, I thought, and the payoff line for the Christmas special was perfect.

Was really surprised to find that E6 wasn't the end actually. Hope they get a third series. Curtis's power is a bit too all-purpose get out of jail free, but it sort of doesn't matter. Nathan was hilarious in the one too.

They need a proper arch nemesis I think.

I think there must be series three so they can show Las Vegas.

Love that their answer to everything since the show started is to kill people.

Said at the end of tonight's that it'll be back.

Episode was a bit of a game changer too

"It's when you come, puke and shit yourself all at the same time..."

This is now officially the weirdest show on TV.

Nathan killing the "alien" was truly one of the most horrifying/hilarious tv moments i have ever seen. I hope we haven't seen the last of Ruth Negga.

is she good in this?

I doubt we've seen the last of her, she's hardly done anything so far and is still Curtis's girlfriend.

They're all really good. One of my friends inspired a character in the David Peace book and when filmed, that char was played by Rob Sheehan. I showed this friend Misfits clips last night, ROFLing as friend was going 'wait...looks familiar...whywhywhy does he look so familiar?'

is she good in this?

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Her english accent is really good, took me a while to realize it was actually her. Pretty different role to anything i've seen her in up to now as well.

There's definitely a third (and I think it's the final) series been given the go-ahead.

I love the fact that you never know what the hell is likely to happen next. Even the heavy handed foreshadowing (like lactose intolerance) plays off completely differently to expectations.

I'm assuming Ruth Negga will be back because Curtis' only motive for getting powers back is to resurrect her. Although...

the simplest thing would be for him to wind back to before any of them sell their powers and them to kill jesus then. But then Nathan won't necessarily meet the pregnant girl and they won't have the money that jesus saved and I bet both those are in place, and new powers (although I reckon the only one who will have something new is Alisha).

Shit, I had no idea the Christmas special had already been on--thought it was on friday night. DLing now!

Yeah I also thought it was on Friday, now I've spoilered it a bit for myself by reading the thread. Ah well, identity of Superhoodie aside it's not like anyone watches this programme for the plot twists is it?

I don't know what I watch it for TBH. All I know is I'm compelled to.

Sorry for any spoilers - fwiw I had missed it on Sunday too and only worked out it had been on when I had no idea what the alien someone else talked about was.

Nathan killing the "alien" was truly one of the most horrifying/hilarious tv moments i have ever seen

OMG yes.

Yeah, I get the feeling they stuck that in just to annoy the watchdogs.

The entire last 20mins of this episode was just fantastic. They need to bring the Jesus guy back somehow, he was like a weird rapey David Tennant/Matt Bellamy/Robert Peston hybrid.

Also the Christmas carol was just lolololol.

Love the way Nathan just never thinks anything through or learns from his mistakes. Should I blow my brains out on national TV? Yeah why not. Should I sell my immortality for a couple of grand, yeah go for it.

Was Jesus the same guy who played one of the main characters in Bunny & the Bull?

Totally otm dl, I *knew* I recognised him from somewhere.

They need to bring the Jesus guy back somehow

Needs an Easter Special.

(only just caught up on the special so I've been avoiding the thread)

loved Nathan being Mr Brave with the gunman until someone reminded him he was no longer immortal
loved alien baby stomp

(although I reckon the only one who will have something new is Alisha)

Simon needs to buy +1 time-travelling to become hoodie-guy.

Also, time-travelling Simon had the news tape from the undone timeline in ep 6, so he'll need some sort of parallel-universe-hopping powers too

I just caught up with this last series and thought it was just brilliant. Can't wait for more.

Also, time-travelling Simon had the news tape from the undone timeline in ep 6, so he'll need some sort of parallel-universe-hopping powers too

Love this show so much I haven't really cared about the timetravel plot holes. In a way I hope they don't address them because there are just so many now (Like Simon and Alisha getting together in the future after she's meant to have been killed by the Grand Theft Auto bloke, or Simon and Alisha remembering the conversation about future-Simon after Curtis reversed that day), dimension jumping would be nice but I like that this is the kind of show that doesn't get too hung up on those sorts of details, and that no one really notices them anyway because it's too busy being awesome in every other way.

No Sheehan for Series 3.
http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0410/robertsheehan.html

WANK.

Has anyone been watching The Fades? It's like elements of Misfits and The Inbetweeners grafted on to Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It's not remotely original but significantly better than you'd expect from BBC3.

So annoyed there's no Nathan in this, but the mini-episode that writes him out is terrific:

http://touch.dailymotion.com/#/video/xlcop4_misfits-vegas-baby_shortfilms

"It was supposed to come out of your twat"

This was not good

Yeah very disappointing but at the same time expectedly so. Sheehan really carried the show and I just don't particularly care about the other characters.

New guy = rubbish, they tried to overload his character with Nathan-style filth lines and the actor didn't have the charm to carry it off.

Exactly, all the anal sex stuff etc. was trying way too hard

Anyone still watching? I think it's becoming a bit Shameless in attempting to up the WTFness with every episode but there are still lols to be had.
New bloke completely abandoned his sensitive side this week in favour of being 100% sleaze ball.

Curtis proves it's hard out there for a girl - switched gender for five minutes and managed to be sexually assaulted by three different men.

Looks like some actually story-arc stuff coming up next week. Good.

I thought this week's episode was OK, but last week's was definitely poor.

omg Mr Veg has got me totally hooked on this; just started Season 1 and I love it!

Found myself really enjoying season 1. Started season 2 and just stopped though.

Not that there was a drop in quality, mind. Just one of those things.

I want to watch all of it right now
stupid work

Season 2 is better

Found myself really enjoying season 1. Started season 2 and just stopped though.

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Yeah me too. Did rather like this, for very similar reasons to True Blood - camp, over the top, ridiculous fun.

Just discovered this before Xmas. First 2 seasons = some of the best TV I've ever seen. Xmas special is seriously wonky and bad. First two episodes of Season 3 entirely shit the bed and I am not going to watch any more. What a shame. It goes from a great, cliche-shredding, thoughtfully and ribaldly funny show about "superheroes" set in a dark and shadowy and weird real world, and then suddenly turns into Hollyoaks with charmless comedy characters.

otm. afaic the series ended after the second season.

Recently discovered this show - it's on Hulu in the US. This thread is OTM. Cool to see folks views expressed in real time about what is/was great about the show. And when, sadly, the show abruptly stopped being good. We didn't know anything about the show before watching it. Season 3, episode 1 was so wrong we rage quit. Usually after investing in a show for 2 seasons I'll give them benefit of the doubt. But S3 E1 was so bad, the new lead guy so WTF terrible, we just quit. Hulu tells me they made 5 seasons???

Anyway, the first 2 seasons are brilliant & well worth the time. Just don't open season 3.

Season 3, episode 1 was so wrong we rage quit. Usually after investing in a show for 2 seasons I'll give them benefit of the doubt. But S3 E1 was so bad, the new lead guy so WTF terrible, we just quit.

it me, iirc

Oh no, actually I just checked wiki and iirc we stuck it out to finish the main characters' arc till the end of s03, but it sucked so bad we had no desire to continue into s04

it me, iirc