Misfits love
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shapinglightOkay, I think it's about time I wrote a proper post about Misfits season 2 (and about Mad Men, season 4 of which has just finished over here, but that's for another day), the best sci-fi show on British telly in ages.
Sadly, this being a Brit show, we get only seven episodes (series 1 was only six episodes), but I'm completely and totally gripped, despite the fact that the show is very much not aimed at my age group. In fact, if anyone over 30 appears in the program, the characters all get this "Ewww!" (or the East London equivalent) look on their faces.
More behind cut with spoilers right up to the latest episode, 2X4.
I loved the first season, which introduced us to the 'Asbo heroes' and their utterly useless powers, though I felt at the time it focused too much on the very mouthy Nathan (or Twazzock Boy, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quinara and I used to call him), even though the best episode of the series IMO centred around Curtis and his attempts to rewind time and cancel out his drugs conviction, only to find that he just kept making things worse.
However, this second series has absolutely blown me away. It's utterly wonderful. I adore all the characters, and their inept attempts to stay alive, and their reluctant (and I mean really reluctant) slow evolution into actual heroes - at least I think that's where they're going. The storyline featuring Alisha and Future!Simon has been gripping, even though thinking about the time paradox aspect of it makes my head hurt. Alisha has changed so much in such a short period of time, and you can see that she'll change even more as she tries to become the person who will change Simon into the person she will fall in love with (see, it makes your head hurt). Of course, it may all go horribly wrong, but then these are the Misfits not the Justice League.
Meanwhile, the other characters have their own journeys. I love Curtis's new girlfriend (the fact that the cast is so multi-racial and some of them are mixed race gives me a warm glow inside), and I love how completely down to earth and pragmatic Kelly is, and how Nathan is still a complete twazzock but you can't help liking him. I love the cynical new probation officer, and the way that almost everyone in the cast has some kind of superpower -some of them utterly useless - and everyone is so :shrug: about it.
What's more, there have been some wonderful villains in this series, and the one from last night's ep - the bloke whose life was a computer game - was the best yet. Damn, he was scary.
What else is there to love? Oh yes, the scripts, which are witty and rude and very, very funny; the way that whenever the show does get a teeny bit sentimental there's always a leavening of black humour in there; the sex scenes, which are really, really sexy, and the dirty, grungy Brit setting.
Whether the show will ever say anything deep or meaningful, I don't know, and don't really care. I think it might one day, in a muddled, grungy sort of way. We'll see. In the meantime, if the Misfits get to the end of season 2 without killing yet another probation officer they'll be doing very well.
Sadly, this being a Brit show, we get only seven episodes (series 1 was only six episodes), but I'm completely and totally gripped, despite the fact that the show is very much not aimed at my age group. In fact, if anyone over 30 appears in the program, the characters all get this "Ewww!" (or the East London equivalent) look on their faces.
More behind cut with spoilers right up to the latest episode, 2X4.
I loved the first season, which introduced us to the 'Asbo heroes' and their utterly useless powers, though I felt at the time it focused too much on the very mouthy Nathan (or Twazzock Boy, as
quinara and I used to call him), even though the best episode of the series IMO centred around Curtis and his attempts to rewind time and cancel out his drugs conviction, only to find that he just kept making things worse. However, this second series has absolutely blown me away. It's utterly wonderful. I adore all the characters, and their inept attempts to stay alive, and their reluctant (and I mean really reluctant) slow evolution into actual heroes - at least I think that's where they're going. The storyline featuring Alisha and Future!Simon has been gripping, even though thinking about the time paradox aspect of it makes my head hurt. Alisha has changed so much in such a short period of time, and you can see that she'll change even more as she tries to become the person who will change Simon into the person she will fall in love with (see, it makes your head hurt). Of course, it may all go horribly wrong, but then these are the Misfits not the Justice League.
Meanwhile, the other characters have their own journeys. I love Curtis's new girlfriend (the fact that the cast is so multi-racial and some of them are mixed race gives me a warm glow inside), and I love how completely down to earth and pragmatic Kelly is, and how Nathan is still a complete twazzock but you can't help liking him. I love the cynical new probation officer, and the way that almost everyone in the cast has some kind of superpower -some of them utterly useless - and everyone is so :shrug: about it.
What's more, there have been some wonderful villains in this series, and the one from last night's ep - the bloke whose life was a computer game - was the best yet. Damn, he was scary.
What else is there to love? Oh yes, the scripts, which are witty and rude and very, very funny; the way that whenever the show does get a teeny bit sentimental there's always a leavening of black humour in there; the sex scenes, which are really, really sexy, and the dirty, grungy Brit setting.
Whether the show will ever say anything deep or meaningful, I don't know, and don't really care. I think it might one day, in a muddled, grungy sort of way. We'll see. In the meantime, if the Misfits get to the end of season 2 without killing yet another probation officer they'll be doing very well.
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Date: 2010-12-03 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-03 10:04 pm (UTC)Right there with you. I'm loving S2 even more than the first series, and I LOVE what they're doing with Simon and Alisha. Fantastic stuff!
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Date: 2010-12-03 10:19 pm (UTC)The hints from Future Simon (who isn't massively older than current Simon) suggest that they will die. But how? Why? In the service of 'good', whatever that is? At the hands of more super-people? Is it inevitable? But we don't have to know - the mystery isn't the whole point of the series (a la Lost, 24, Heroes etc). Seeing them cope and learn and grow, and of course kill people, is plenty.
Forget if it was on one of your posts or Gill's that I commented on the sex scenes, so forgive me if I'm repetitive. But it's so rare to get both good and bad sex scenes that are realistic, and I'm filled with admiration for these. Nathan/Kelly was painfully bad, Alisha/Simon (and Alisha/Curtis earlier) very good - both rang true.
I think the show is already saying something: 'asbo kids' aren't a blob of indistinguishable yoof-crime. They have brains, they have personalities. Kelly especially, for me. She's the most authentic, and I think the best, most *moral* person among them. Compassionate and sensible, behind the Croydon facelift and the awful voice. Whether it ever wants to say anything else, like you, I'm not sure, and not especially bothered!
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Date: 2010-12-03 10:20 pm (UTC)I agree, even though the time paradox stuff does my head in, like I said.
Their sex scenes are some of the sexiest I've ever seen.
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Date: 2010-12-03 11:51 pm (UTC)I love it - but you knew that. I agree with bmb about the message that these "trash" kids are actual real people, with lives and vulnerabilities. I love the fact that race just isn't an issue. They are like a lot of urban kids today - a total mixture, to the point that they just don't care.
As for the sex - well, Simon seducing Alisha was damned hot. And I loved the idea that she was the one who taught him to do that. Timey wimey stuff can be fun.
I'm just hoping they don't wipe them all out at the end but give us another series.
And why on earth is it hidden on E4? It's one of the best things from the C4 stable in a long time!
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Date: 2010-12-04 12:29 pm (UTC)I know! I don't want that to happen. I want season 3, dammit!
Forget if it was on one of your posts or Gill's that I commented on the sex scenes, so forgive me if I'm repetitive. But it's so rare to get both good and bad sex scenes that are realistic, and I'm filled with admiration for these. Nathan/Kelly was painfully bad, Alisha/Simon (and Alisha/Curtis earlier) very good - both rang true.
I think it was one of Gill's, but I agree. The sex scenes are as gritty and realistic as the rest of the show - very, very well done. I also agree about Kelly. She was my favourite in season 1, and though Alisha is beginning to catch up with her now that she's maturing, I love Kelly to pieces. Her heart's always in the right place, even when she's breaking and entering. :)
behind the Croydon facelift
Heh! In these parts, they call that a Liverpool facelift.
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Date: 2010-12-04 12:34 pm (UTC)That's not so much true up this way, but it's very authentic for where they live.
As for the sex - well, Simon seducing Alisha was damned hot. And I loved the idea that she was the one who taught him to do that. Timey wimey stuff can be fun.
It can, although it also does your head in. I feel like poor Alisha's stuck in this vicious circle where in order to get back the person she loves she has to more or less create him from scratch.
I'm just hoping they don't wipe them all out at the end but give us another series.
Hasn't it been renewed yet? :worries:
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Date: 2010-12-04 07:34 pm (UTC)Another show that seems great from what I've heard of it (and will probably not be able to watch). How do I envy the British TV for its creativity!
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Date: 2010-12-04 10:16 pm (UTC)I can quite understand that, though I'm glad you decided to come back.