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MISFITS |
Kelly - Lauren Socha Curtis - Nathan Stewart Jarrett Alisha - Antonia Thomas Simon - Iwan Rheon Nathan - Robert Sheehan 
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Episode 1- first transmitted 11th November 2010Kelly, Curtis, Alisha and Simon still feel the loss of Nathan, their fellow community service offender, keenly so it comes as a relief when they learn that he's alive in his grave. Digging him out, they set about their care in the community programme again, but Simon meets an old friend from his time in a psychiatric unit, a friend whose shapeshifting abilities leaves them all not knowing who to trust. MISFTIS is back and hasn't mellowed at all in the time between series one and two. This episode contains just as much profanity as well as a fairly graphic blow job, a bloody murder and Nathan dying again in the changing rooms. Those who found the characters hard to take in the first series will find them just as hard to take here, but those that loved them will be happy that they are back unchanged by their recent travails. The shapeshifting plot hangs together pretty well, even if it is borrowed from THE THING, and everyone's powers are used effectively and with fun results. The marmite show is back. Love it or hate it, you can't ignore it. TopEpisode 2- first transmitted 18th November 2010Nathan's half-brother of whom he was unaware, turns up with their father locked in his car boot. Whilst they try to work out their relationship, some pills taken at a rave have a profound effect on their powers. Though the main characters of MISFITS are deeply unlikeable, episodes like this one show them to be far more rounded than the profanity spouting, authority hating screw ups that they present themselves to be for the most part. As a result, the story is more affecting and inclusive than at other times. The usual amount of black humour is present, but the trip to the rave and the dodgy drugs throws up some future plot twists as well as giving Nathan's life a shake up and wake up call. TopEpisode 3- first transmitted 25th November 2010Whilst a tattoo artist with a unique ability makes Nathan fall in love with Simon and Kelly fall in love with him, Alisha tracks down the masked hero and learns his true identity. This episode is about the best that the show has yet to produce. Quite apart from the silliness of Nathan coming onto the understandably confused Simon (very funny it is to) and messing it up with Kelly when the time comes, the twist behind the identity of the masked man is beautifully handled. Sure, it's a bit predictable, but it plays out really well, fitting neatly into the mythos of the show and what we know of the masked hero. The question now is where this revelation will take the show. TopEpisode 4- first transmitted 2nd December 2010There's a warped individual roaming the estate killing people as he lives out what he believes to be a violent video game. His target are the community service team and it is going to take all of them, including a new friend, to save them. This will not, however, come without a price. The circular nature of the time travel story comes to a tragic, but inevitable end in this episode. This strand has been the strongest that the show has yet come up with and the closing of the loop here is one of the strongest moments yet as Alisha is faced with pain, but a pain that is laced with hope and purpose. Which is more than can be said for the nutter who thinks he's playing Grand Theft Auto for real. The video game representations of the main characters are quite funny, but the new addition to the team (after the heart surgery) seems completely pointless for the majority of the story until becoming apparently vital towards the end before becoming pointless again. MISFITS continues its strong showing in this second season and the characters are less abrasive and more believable than ever. TopEpisode 5- first transmitted 9th December 2010Alisha is coming to terms with the tragic loss of her hero and sets about being nicer to Simon, just at a time when another girl shows up and wants to be nice to him as well, a girl who might be the person who brutally killed Nathan earlier. Love is in the air, or sex at least, as Simon loses his virginity, Curtis gets it on with the new teleporter girl Nikki and Kelly finds that her new man is far from perfect, but in ways that she couldn't possibly imagine. There's no cohesive storyline going on here, though people are getting killed, but the various threads all go together quite well. The KING KONG spoof sequence is a bit silly, but then does have a point to it after all. The fact that the party in the latter stages is a fancy dress party means that the gang all end up in the most ridiculous superhero costumes. The episode rounds out the characters some more and is another good addition to a show that is going from strength to strength. TopEpisode 6- first transmitted 16th December 2010Just before finishing their term on Community Service the group are ‘outed' as having superpowers. Immediately catapulted to fame, they are seduced by the luxury that a top agent is able to surround them with, but soon enough people are dying at both the hands of a disgruntled ex-client and also by the inevitable cackhandedness of the 'Asbo 5'. The show goes out at the end of its second season in the same uncompromising way that it came in at the first with an ingenious story wrapped around the love ‘em/hate ‘em characters and with an expletive laden script full of gross out humour and genuinely surprising twists. Nathan's explanation of what 'tripling' is manages to be truly gross, but the scene itself, in which the agent hears all the secrets that her new clients might need to keep hidden (dead probation officers, shagging great apes etc) is very funny. The way in which Nathan ends up accidentally ending the life of a woman destined to ‘heal the world' is gory, but funny and the ingenuity of creating the initially pathetic power of ‘milk manipulation' and then turning it into possibly the greatest assassination tool ever is brilliant. This will delight the fans and appall those who struggle with the show, but it is the show at its uncompromisingly original best. TopChristmas Special- first transmitted 19th December 2010Alisha sells her power so that she can be close to Simon who is struggling with the fact that she will be judging him by the man that he hasn't become yet. Nathan sells his power so that he can provide for the heavily pregnant girl that he has fallen for. The others sell their powers for the cash. The disillusioned priest who has bought many of these powers so that he can masquerade as the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, however, makes them all wish that they hadn't. It's the Christmas story MISFITS style, which means that there is death, blood, sex, swearing and just about as much peeing over every sacred aspect of the festive season that the show can come up with. There is a birth with a manger, but it's as far from a virgin birth as it can be and the bible doesn't contain a passage about stomping the placenta into a red, bloody mess as soon as it comes out. There is a Jesus, but he is a priest who has given up spreading the good word and instead is busy spreading young women's legs. There is precious little goodwill to anyone and the hymn that is sung is quickly dismissed as being a mistake. MISFITS isn't going to make any new Christian friends with this Christmas special, but it is amusing, tightly plotted, full of the usual amounts of foul-mouthed wit and bad-taste moments. The central characters are much less horrible than originally and the story of buying and selling powers leads to the interesting cliffhanger that the gang are buying back powers, but not necessarily the ones that they originally sold. Where that takes the next series it will be interesting to find out. Top |
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