Misfits (2009)

We're halfway through its second series, and Misfits doesn't appear to be taking a break from its status as the best-looking, funniest show on TV. Alisha finally gets a more interesting plot, with the soon-to-be-unmasked crusader taking a special interest in her, while Curtis starts to see glimpses of the future he jumped into last week. And there's an amusing subplot involving an unscrupulous tattooist who invokes the wrath of Kelly: "You can't make people gay just 'cos they're dickheads". Brilliant.

Tonight, the teen drama pays homage to Superman while remaining tongue-in-cheek enough to get away with it. The masked superhero who appears to have chosen bolshy Alisha (Antonia Thomas) as his Lois Lane finally reveals his identity and turns out to be both hunky and strangely familiar. Romance is also on the cards for Nathan (Robert Sheehan) and Kelly (Lauren Socha), until he insults her tattooist, who wreaks inky revenge. Meanwhile, Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) proves as fickle as his girlfriend Alisha and falls head over heels in lust with another mouthy lady. Don't expect this gutsy show to dissolve into a saccharine snog-fest, however. There's a tense scene involving a bag of dry-roasted peanuts, blue gags galore and enough tenderness to make you really care about these ham-fisted heroes.

For a few weeks a ­mysterious masked figure has been leaping off buildings and watching over the Misfits like a caped crusader - minus the cape.

Tonight we find out the ­identity of the face behind the mask and it's a revelation that will set the series on a thrilling new path.

Fans might have worried that creator Howard Overman would run out of ideas in series two, but there's no sign of that happening.

His freak of the week sub-plot is an especially good one as we meet another fallout from the storm - a tattooist with an interesting way of leaving his mark on people. Simon's not going to enjoy the mischief this guy's going to cause.

This supernatural teenage drama remains brilliant as it reaches its third blue gag-laden episode. The gaggle of social outcasts who acquired superpowers during a thunderstorm continue to wonder who the enigmatic masked man is after he rescues Alisha (Antonia Thomas) from a mugging. Meanwhile, Nathan (Robert Sheehan) manages to ruin his romantic chances with Kelly (Lauren Socha) when he insults her tattooist.

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Misfits series 2 episode 2 review

Episode 2 packs in a huge amount of drama and characterisation...

Misfits 2.2 review

I was dissatisfied by Misfits' premiere last week, mainly because the meat of its story felt like a reheated, underdeveloped leftover from last year. Hopefully, those confused by my reaction will better understand what I felt was missing now, in comparing episode 1 to this week's more emotional, inventive improvement.

Misfits: Series 2, Episode 2 review

Last night's episode of Misfits was another entertaining, intriguing and at times very funny hour of TV. It was also possibly the most poignant and emotional that the series has got so far.

The second series of Misfits continues to wow with this Nathan-centric episode, although it's worth warning that it does start with him "seductively" lathering his body with sun cream. It turns out that Nathan has a brother, which means double the fun and double the scrapes, and leads to what may already be the line of the series: "We're like the Mitchell brothers, only we're not bald, ugly and shit!" There's some drama for the other Misfits, too, in the form of a pill that seems to reverse their powers - good news for the usually unnoticed Simon, but not so great for everyone else.

Tonight rude, crude, oddly likeable Nathan discovers that he's not an only child after all. But no sooner have he and his newfound brother freed their livid father from the car boot and started playing happy families than things go horribly wrong. Again. The reluctant superheroes head to a club determined to party, only to find that popping pills reverses their powers, resulting in an unsettling "flash-forward" for Curtis and a lethal fire. Cue yet more soul searching for Nathan who, in a nice twist, realises something disturbing about his superpower. It's another finely acted, edge-of-your-seat episode with a cliffhanger ending. But when oh when will we learn the identity of that mysterious bloke in the mask?