Misfits: not a romantic comedy about a teacher with epilepsy called Miss Fits
Boardwalk Empire and Walking Dead (which won me back loke it was standing outside my room holding up a boombox) are over, looking for a new good TV fix?
Try my new favourite thing: Misfits
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I've heard it called Skins meets Heroes and Shaun of the Dead meets The Breakfast Club and while both those descriptions are apt they're also reductive. It's hilarious and terrifying and painful and sexy and has a really great soundtrack.
Because British series are so short, you could probably be all caught up by next week, which is season finale. There's a Christmas special, and all the characters have Twitter accounts, some of which update live, as the show is aired. I don't have Twitter and I still think that's really freaking cool.
It recently exploded all over fandom, due to a certain character taing a level in Batman and becoming conventionally sexy and a doomed romantic. I thought I'd see what the fuss was about and torrented the 10 episodes. I'm now waiting really hard for the eleventh. BRITISH TELEVISION WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.
It portrays a bunch of working and middle class kids from South (Souf) London with ASBOs (anti-social behaviour orders) and ankle bracelets, doing community service for a raft of minor offences. They get super powers because of magic lightning, but that's kind of beside the point.
With or without powers, these kids have loads of issues and no prospects, pushing through the fear of the oncoming future with a way-too-cool attitude and a cocktail of class A's and the show embraces this.
The point is, I've met these people. They all hung out at my community center and crappy gym (that have since been updated into a library and Fitness First respectively). Mine had different accents (and no super powers) but it's them on screen, all the wank jokes and casual drug abuse and drunken public fucking.
I was Simon. Quiet, awkward, a bit creepy, constantly on the edge of making a terrible terrible decision. I'm a bit Kelly too, because she has a good heart but will punch you in the face for disrespecting her. I love them, but I love all the characters.
Nathan is as sociopathic as Simon, but on the opposite end of the spectrum, where he refuses to admit he's bad at people. You will love him, even though he's a prick, because he gets all the best lines, such as "Charles Darwin said you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs!" and "Everyone knows you don't fuck a wounded bear!"
Alisha (though her 'power' infuriates me in ways other people have written essays about) is so much more broken then she wants you to believe and experiences such development that is wonderful to watch. Curtis seems to have the least to do because he's the closest they have to a regular, mature person, which is a bit sad in and of itself.
It's beautifully acted by beautiful people and well constructed. It's shot on the banks of Themesmead, which is where most of A Clockwork Orange was shot, which is as hilarious as that thing about the original Love The Bomb back projection guy working on Watchmen.
Seriously, all of you should watch it right now and them bring me crossovers. All the crossovers, from Doctor Who to Glee to Due South. Not even joking.
Try my new favourite thing: Misfits
via zipped
I've heard it called Skins meets Heroes and Shaun of the Dead meets The Breakfast Club and while both those descriptions are apt they're also reductive. It's hilarious and terrifying and painful and sexy and has a really great soundtrack.
Because British series are so short, you could probably be all caught up by next week, which is season finale. There's a Christmas special, and all the characters have Twitter accounts, some of which update live, as the show is aired. I don't have Twitter and I still think that's really freaking cool.
It recently exploded all over fandom, due to a certain character taing a level in Batman and becoming conventionally sexy and a doomed romantic. I thought I'd see what the fuss was about and torrented the 10 episodes. I'm now waiting really hard for the eleventh. BRITISH TELEVISION WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.
It portrays a bunch of working and middle class kids from South (Souf) London with ASBOs (anti-social behaviour orders) and ankle bracelets, doing community service for a raft of minor offences. They get super powers because of magic lightning, but that's kind of beside the point.
With or without powers, these kids have loads of issues and no prospects, pushing through the fear of the oncoming future with a way-too-cool attitude and a cocktail of class A's and the show embraces this.
The point is, I've met these people. They all hung out at my community center and crappy gym (that have since been updated into a library and Fitness First respectively). Mine had different accents (and no super powers) but it's them on screen, all the wank jokes and casual drug abuse and drunken public fucking.
I was Simon. Quiet, awkward, a bit creepy, constantly on the edge of making a terrible terrible decision. I'm a bit Kelly too, because she has a good heart but will punch you in the face for disrespecting her. I love them, but I love all the characters.
Nathan is as sociopathic as Simon, but on the opposite end of the spectrum, where he refuses to admit he's bad at people. You will love him, even though he's a prick, because he gets all the best lines, such as "Charles Darwin said you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs!" and "Everyone knows you don't fuck a wounded bear!"
Alisha (though her 'power' infuriates me in ways other people have written essays about) is so much more broken then she wants you to believe and experiences such development that is wonderful to watch. Curtis seems to have the least to do because he's the closest they have to a regular, mature person, which is a bit sad in and of itself.
It's beautifully acted by beautiful people and well constructed. It's shot on the banks of Themesmead, which is where most of A Clockwork Orange was shot, which is as hilarious as that thing about the original Love The Bomb back projection guy working on Watchmen.
Seriously, all of you should watch it right now and them bring me crossovers. All the crossovers, from Doctor Who to Glee to Due South. Not even joking.