Misfits love
Dec. 3rd, 2010 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.