Misfits (2009)

Misfits - Series 5 Episode 4 review

It tends to happen once every series. Amid the crudity Misfits will produce an episode that manages to touch you right there.

Misfits 5.3 review

I found this hour very entertaining (with some caveats), and the series arcs inched along nicely.

Misfits series 5 episode 3 review

I hope they can keep up the quality as, so far, series five is the best Misfits has been in a good couple of years.

This week, Rudy's doppelganger disappears, only to reappear as a doddery octogenarian. Retracing Rudy Two's steps to find out what happened, Rudy One makes a distressing discovery: his doppelganger is a friendly, generous, kind-hearted bloke. So why does a handsome stranger want to bump him off?

Summarising the plot of this teen favourite makes it sound utterly barmy but somehow it all makes perfect sense on screen, largely thanks to writer Howard Overman's razor-sharp dialogue. Tonight he also has his juvenile delinquents/superheroes stumble across more unusual superpowers: a little old lady who knits the future and a man literally in the closet.

Misfits - Series 5 Episode 3 review

You'd never get a character quite like Dooley's anywhere else on TV. You'd never have plots as mad as you got this week. Or last week. Or 3 years ago. And in 5 weeks time we'll miss them.

Misfits series 5 episode 2 review

Misfits delivers an hilarious Rudy-focussed episode that showcases Joseph Gilgun's talents...

Misfits 5.2 review

Overall, this was a fun episode that provided a strong showcase for Gilgun and Cornwell, but it did lack a sense of surprise.

He is used to hiding behind a potty-mouthed Jack-the-Lad split personality but, when Rudy spies his father in an apparently adulterous situation, he gallops for the moral high ground in an orange jumpsuited heartbeat. Cue a bravura performance from Joseph Gilgun as an emotionally wrecked one-man double act - he's so good at dialoguing with himself that, by the end, you won't believe there aren't actually two of him.

Just when you thought the improbable superheroes couldn't surprise you, Rudy comes over all principled. Yes, the resident motormouth is aghast when he spies his father cheating on his mother. Cue a heated debate with his downbeat doppelganger (his "power" is to be able to split into multiple personalities) and a half-hearted attempt to set the world to rights.

Naturally, nothing is quite as it seems and after four series of Misfits' compelling madness this viewer soon started to suspect the truth: could it be like father, like son? A Rudy episode is always a treat as actor Joseph Gilgun is hilarious and heartfelt by turns; I could watch him talking to himself all day.

Misfits Series 5 Episode 2 review

Misfits never turns out a bad episode when it puts Joe Gilgun's living embodiment of a Freudian slip, Rudy, at the centre of events.