Karla Crome

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The sight of nice Rudy lactating is just one of the oddball pleasures to be savoured as the curtain comes down on the orange-boiler-suited community service superpower drama after five inventive and largely joyous seasons. Robert Sheehan, Iwan Rheon, Antonia Thomas and Karla Crome are just four of the young actors to benefit from a career leg-up in this show - and here's hoping it's not long before the comedically gifted current star Joe Gilgun lights up the screen again.

Having started with a literal bang, Misfits doesn't, we're relieved to report, go out with a whimper. The return of series creator Howard Overman for tonight's last-ever episode - 'grand finale' doesn't feel appropriate for a show that so knowingly and consistently undercuts any delusions of grandeur - helps, although any hope of former cast members also coming back is forlorn. Still, a line-up boasting the likes of Joseph Gilgun, Sean Dooley and Karla Crome is always worth watching, as it's probably the performances rather than the tired concept that have kept Misfits going into its twilight years.

Tonight sees the gang relieved of their community service and contemplating life after the orange jumpsuits. Rudy (Gilgun) is happily at the centre of things, sending Jess (Crome) into the arms of a nutter with a taste for parallel futures and learning some uncomfortable truths about Helen, Karen and Sam. At its height it was nigh-on essential (and, lest we forget, Bafta-winning); this is merely decent, but E4 will still be the poorer for its passing.

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The delinquents-with-superpowers drama has always excelled in its capacity for the surreal and tonight's episode is no exception. Rudy (Joseph Gilgun) leads Finn (Nathan McMullen), Jess (Karla Crome) and Alex (Matt Stokoe) to a wild house party. But things turn weird when a six-foot rabbit wearing a suit and wielding a golf club starts making a mess of the partygoers. Then Alex makes a confession to Jess about a stolen body part.

Wholesale cast overhauls can be difficult at the best of times, and this opener to series four suggests that Misfits hasn't recovered its poise yet after the departures of Kelly, Simon and Alisha. Curtis and Rudy remain, along with honorary Misfit Seth, to fight over a mysterious suitcase brought into their midst by a delirious lunatic. Timing their arrival less than perfectly are new recruits Jess (Karla Crome from Hit & Miss) and Finn (newcomer Nathan McMullen), both sullenly drawn into the intrigue as alliances are formed and then severed. It has its moments (largely thanks to Joe Gilgun's Rudy), but mostly amounts to a slightly lacklustre take on the failed-heist fallout, with the excellent Crome something of a spare part for now. Surely there's too much talent on- and off-screen for Misfits to lose its way entirely, but this is a problematic reinvention so far.

The first episode of the fourth series of Misfits welcomes in new tearaways Finn and Jess, in place of alumni Kelly, Alisha and Simon.

After a meeting with a familiar face and a run-in with a mysterious man with a briefcase, the newcomers soon discover that there is a lot more to donning the orange overalls than they think.

From the moment loud-mouthed-lout-with-a-dark-side Finn cracks a joke about his mother in extremely bad taste to the pitch-dark closing moments, it's a riot; with Nathan McMullen proving he can be just as feisty as the existing characters in his role as Finn.

On the other hand, Karla Crome's Jess might be the weakest link, with her style of acting - probably intended as deadpan - coming across instead as just irritating.

Overall, while there is plenty for those new to the show to sink their teeth into (Joseph Gilgun's always-hilarious Rudy) there are tidbits for stalwart fans too, including grisly violence, expletive-laden dialogue and a reference to the gang's preferred choice of ice-cream. Bring on the rest of the series.

It's a testing time for the super-powered community-service caper as the fourth series kicks off. It's survived the departure of a key player before, when subbing Joe Gilgun for Robert Sheehan proved a masterstroke. But with no less than three of the original cast, including Iwan Rheon's Simon, gone this time round, can it still cast its spell? With Karla Crome (so good in BBC2's Murder) among the newcomers, it's got a fighting chance.