Misfits (2009)

Misfits 5.6 - review

A mixed hour this week, which is often the way with Misfits.

Misfits series 5 episode 6 review

This week's Misfits proves what a unique (and offensive) show Howard Overman's series is.

Things get even darker as Misfits hurtles towards the end of its last ever series, with the gang caring for a group of terminally ill patients, one of whom is particularly resilient. Alex the barman, meanwhile, is punished for failing to show his chivalrous side as a Gypsy casts a spell on him. But it's Rudy Two (the good side of his split personality, so expertly played by doom-voiced Joe Gilgun) who's the real highlight, as he pursues the missing superhero from the future-predicting woolly jumper.

Misfits Series 5 Episode 6 review

Over the past five years Misfits has been dragging our idea of what's funny steadily off course - like a magnet fucking a compass - to the point where taste and decency have fallen off the map.

Misfits 5.5 review

Overall, this fifth episode worked well for me-despite the fact I find McMullen too shrill a lot of the time.

Misfits series 5 episode 5 review

Misfits' fifth series goes back to its roots with a sci-fi storyline and some crude humour.

Misfits Series 5 Episode 5 review

The strongest episode Misfits has created in quite some time. With Finn and Leah, and Rudy and Jess coupled up, it turns out that it is possible to find love through the Internet.

Misfits 5.4 review

Overall, this was a middling episode that felt cobbled together from stray ideas, nursed along by entertaining but thin sub-plots and the odd good laugh.

Misfits series 5 episode 4 review

There wasn't much room for other storylines this week, but we did get to see the beginnings of a superhero attitude in Alex after Abbey told him off for not using his power to help people.

Unlike ex-E4 staple Skins, which revived its original cast for its last run, the final incarnation of this offbeat supernatural drama is barely recognisable. In episode four, the gang come across a vulnerable old man with a secret, more is revealed about the mysterious woolly jumper, and Abby implores Alex to use his weird powers to, erm, have sex with a tortoise. Rudy's alter ego Rudy Two comes further out of his shell, with Joe Gilgun giving a split personality performance that's a distraction from all the gratuitous weirdness.