MISFITS

FUCK.

Asbos, dead social workers, a gritty council estate – oh, and super powers.

So in this series so far the powers have included the your-penis-will-fall-off-if-you-play-me-erer, the bring-dead-people-back-to-life-and-then-shit-goes-down-erer, and the classic two-people-inside-me-erer.

...but I LOVE MISFITS – and I’ll tell you why…

It has a sense of realism (Okay, I know super powers aren’t real, but I’m getting to the point.), what I mean is the cast aren’t ‘perfect’ looking – they don’t look like they’ve been photo shopped a thousand times – they look like real people.  

Secondly the language isn’t…how should I put it…the language used isn’t commonly seen on TV – here’s a Misfits quote to give you a taster – ‘ ”it sounded like you’re planning on robbing a bank”, “No, no, no. I said, uh… “Let’s have a big wank.” Communal masturbation. The ol’ circle jerk” ‘– Yep, I told you it was a little…. (And that was a PG rated quote compared to the rest.).

Finally – It’s FUNNY! Like, really funny. Each episode is jammed packed with innuendos, one liners and ironic super powers (Each power they originally have will have a relation to their personality – for example, Kelly was paranoid so she got the power to mind read – get it?).  Another funny aspect of the series is the characters – it’s like chocolate and peanut butter - it shouldn’t work, but it really does (TRY IT). One of my favourite characters of the current series is Rudy. He’s pictured below – SPOILER – he’s watching zombie cheerleaders getting battered with baseball bats by his friends – Yes. My mum lets me watch this.

 

 So, the moral of this post is: if you don’t watch Misfits… THEN WATCH IT. Unless you are too young…like that will stop you. Pfffftttt.

(Re-read and for every time I write something do nothing.)