Misfits - Season 1
Fve juvenile offenders doing community service get struck by lightning during a storm, and begin to develop superpowers. Now, on top of dealing with the realities of teenage life and finishing their service project, they must figure out how to handle their new abilities and find out just what, if anything, they are expected to do with them.
9 September 1985, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
20 May 1959, London, England, UK
1972, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
15 November 1970, London, England, UK
8 October 1982, Abergavenny, Wales, UK
19 July 1983, UK
6 March 1995, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
April 25, 2018
It's a new union - salty British street humour with whizz-bang special effects - but Misfits has enough energy, irreverence and bare naked teen flesh to keep E4's core audience happy.
April 24, 2018
So I was pleased to actually really like the characters, even though they're presented as stereotypes, they're stereotypes that seem to be given room to grow.
April 25, 2018
The real joy of the show... is the performances.
April 24, 2018
The performances are confident and very funny, and the ensemble gels well.
April 25, 2018
So, it's kind of Skins meets Heroes in Asbo-land, but so far Misfits is promising not to be as formulaic as that makes it sound.
April 25, 2018
Happily, it delivers much more than it should.
April 24, 2018
Indeed, despite my initial expectations that the powers would largely serve as a Buffy-style metaphor for youth, the show is generally quite subtle about doing this, using the powers to illuminate character traits, rather than as straight analogues.
April 24, 2018
It's easy to see why Misfits pulled in a BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama in its native Britain; and, thanks to Hulu, it will undoubtedly expand its fan base here in the United States.
April 25, 2018
Whether the quality stays as high remains to be seen. But it's a testament to the talent of the young cast, in particular, that Misfits blazed onto the screen with such a terrific sense of humour, self-confidence and brio.
April 24, 2018
The results are brilliantly funny, wildly inventive, and occasionally very moving - not unlike Skins itself.
