TV: Misfits

[Sapphire]

Hey, everyone who wants to boycott Alphas, let's watch Misfits instead!


Misfits is a British comedy-drama series about a group of young offenders forced to work in a community service programme, where they attain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm.

Fan made trailer here:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud8AJDaAW7c

It looks awesome. Watching episode 1 now. It's on Hulu and on torrents.

[Edort4]

Cant really tell wich one is worst this is just a bit better than alphas. I saw a few clips of this series on tv while zapping and it felt like a teenage drama filled with outcasts and pariahs with the so called youth problems, bad visual effects and not enough story behind the characters and I didnt like the acting. Still I could understand that some people find funny or shocking the dirty way of talking and filth jokes they throw.

[Sapphire]

Bother watching it. It's awesome.

Edit: On episode 2 and I LOVE it!! It's like the British version of Hancock. (Only good)

[Janice]

Cant really tell wich one is worst this is just a bit better than alphas.
Misfits is my new favorite show, beating Breaking Bad and Dexter. Best show on TV. One million times better than Alphas.

[Sapphire]

This is my new favorite show too. I watched it in one sitting. It's brilliantly fucking written and amazing in every way.

[Archangel]

This is some seriously awesome shit, it's both hilarious and moving at irregular intervals

The one thing i'm unhappy about is how they teased us with some serious plot in the second season and then failed to deliver.

[Edort4]

This was definitely better than I expected it to be. The first episode started a bit weak but ended well and having unkle as OST made up for any mistakes.

The second episode was hilarious with the doggy man and the orgams. Trainspotting meets x-men.

[rockmanj]

I really want to watch this, but am not sure how to find it.

[Archangel]

I really want to watch this, but am not sure how to find it.
On the internet

[Sapphire]

Can you torrent (http://torrentz.eu/any?q=misfits)? If you're really desperate, it's on alluc.org, but you should try to torrent the highest quality if you can.

[kyubisrage]

Nathans character will not be back for the 3rd season.. pretty fucking gay.

[Sapphire]

Simon is the best character on Misfits. I have never seen such an effectively creepy live-action character. He is also the first character I've seen to brutally murder someone for their own benefit and continue to live a more or less guilt/punishment-free life. He even turns into a sexy badass, and hooks up with Alisha! What an unconventional narrative. These sorts of unexpected twists make Misfits a truly well written show.

[stella01]

Well my sis love to watch this show.. and she is die hard fan of it..

[rockmanj]

I just watched both series, and it is an amazing show! I read somewhere that series 3 will start this month, but not sure if it is true. And yea, my favorite ASBO 5 has to be Barry aka Simon. That "Barry" stuff cracked me up sometimes.

[Janice]

Not sure why he calls him Barry. Seems like he just randomly starts doing it to piss him off.

[rockmanj]

Not sure why he calls him Barry. Seems like he just randomly starts doing it to piss him off.

Well, he is pretty bad at names (he said so himself). I think he genuinely thinks Simon's name is Barry. It is kind of funny, to be fair. Iwan Rheon does look like he could be a Barry, especially the way he is dressed.

I also enjoy Kelly's unrestrained chavvyiness as well ("Do I look like I'm some kind of fookin knob?")

[Archangel]

So is that web episode with Nathan's goodbye out there yet?

[Sapphire]

It's out "right before" November 11 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1934753/).

[rockmanj]

Watching that show actually kind of made me think of what sort of power I would have if caught in that storm...I am thinking intangibility. On an unrelated note, I love the music on this show. Whoever coordinates the soundtracks has been doing a bang up job; especially with that usage of "Paradise Circus" in a certain episode.

[Archangel]

I'd get super speed, i just know it

[rockmanj]

I'd get super speed, i just know it Are you hyperactive, or feel that you can't get things done fast enough?

[Archangel]

I just rush through everything and always try to make the best out of every scrap of free time i have

That is when i'm outside, when i'm inside anime, skype and the occasional vydia take care of that shit for me

[rockmanj]

I am starting to think that Simon's new power will be power negation...

[Sapphire]

That would be awesome.

[Archangel]

No it wouldn't, it would be lame and deus exy

[Sapphire]

Doesn't mean you can't get killed.

[Archangel]

Not getting killed isn't that deus exy in this show as we've witnessed, but having one power that nullifies any other power sounds boring as fuck.

[Sapphire]

He could be unaffected by psychological powers like Alisha's but still vulnerable to being attacked like with the milk boy.

[Archangel]

There are no purely psycholigical attacks on this show, none that we've seen yet anyway. Alisha's was some sort of pheromonal attack, you could clearly see something rushing from her skin to the male's every times she touched them

[rockmanj]

I would think that maybe he would have to touch them for the negation to work. I don't think it would be dues ex-y at all either. If you remember how the Alt Simon met his fate, there was not much he could do against a gun, even if he did have that ability. What seems odd to me is that he went back to save her from that moment...I mean, if we are in a stable time loop, it kind of makes sense, but it is also kind of sad. Also, if they never revealed their abilities, how did he get that clip if that future did not happen?

[Janice]

my season 2 share ratio finally got to 1,000 :p

http://i.imgur.com/kW4uM.jpg

[Archangel]

2.3 Mib/s upload speed? Fuck your shit >_>

[rockmanj]

It's back on the air! And still with the squishy head factor intact: http://www.kat.ph/misfits-s03e01-ws-pdtv-xvid-division-t5943253.html

[Sapphire]

Hell yeah!!

The new season has started, people!

Ep-02 is out.

[rockmanj]

Excellent episode. I can't think of a show now that is doing better character development. And I always joke about what my life would be like if I were a woman, but yea...that seemed unpleasant.

[kyubisrage]

is nathan still there?

[Sapphire]

No, he left the series in an online episode called 'Vegas Baby'.

[rockmanj]

They're still making some interesting episodes; the ending of the last one and the preview was a doozy.

[rockmanj]

Series 3 finale (http://www.rlslog.net/misfits-s03e08-720p-hdtv-x264-tla/) well, that is kind of depressing...

[Sapphire]

OMG series 3 is already over? Well, that was shit.

[Janice]

Only the last 20 minutes of series 3 meant anything to the overall story. I enjoyed every episode, but I wish they mattered in the long run. It feels like I watched a whole bunch of nothing.

[rockmanj]

I have no idea with is going to happen, as apparently both the actors that played Simon and Alisha are not coming back. Hopefully the writing and show-runners will make it work.

[rockmanj]

Is anyone still watching this? The fifth season is really good and here is an AMA with one of the Directors and the guy that plays Alex (the handsome barman): http://www.reddit.com/r/misfitstv/comments/1s6fz5/we_are_lewis_arnold_director_and_matt_stokoe_alex/

[Janice]

Yeah I still watch. The last episode was the end of the series (by series I mean there will be no season 6). Good episode but too little too late. Misfits could've been a goldmine but the writers had no clue what they were doing.