That sounds interesting. I need to sign up for an account to view it, which I’d rather not do unless I first know whether I’ll need to pay to view it. Is it free?
I joked earlier but I am going to miss this show. I liked it a lot and Gary was unlike any character on TV. I knew it was doomed when the 2nd season ratings were lower than the first (which were low). Hated to be right though.
Misfits is free unless you want to see it on your phone or iPad. Then you need Hulu plus (paid).
Misfits does deal with the responsibility and consequences of the powers. One of the great things about it is that the powers granted the characters are based upon their own secret desires and fears.
The first two seasons are by far the best superhero show on TV, though it’s almost impossible to describe without spoiling things (there are a lot of surprising twists). Seasons three and four were good, though not at the amazing level of the first two.
Shows that haven’t been renewed shouldn’t be allowed to end in cliff hangers. Looking at you too Alcatraz.
Misfits is the prototype for “incompetents with super-powers are still incompetents.” Rather than be frustrated that super-genius Peter Parker thinks the best way to see if his powers have returned is to jump off a 10-story building rather than the dozens of non-lethal ways to check, at least with Misfits you know everyone’s a half-wit. Half-wits that can read minds, time travel and teleport, but still half-wits.
The Misfits behave like real people given superpowers – not trying to be heroes or villains, and with messed up lives where their powers don’t do anything to help. It’s like the Stan Lee idea of superheroes with problems, only the problems are far bigger and who never can really catch a break.
She was also a regular on The Cape which was pulled before all its 13 episodes aired. She only had 8 episodes on The 4400 and also 7 episodes in The Unit, both which had 4 seasons.
I forced myself to sit through six episodes hoping it’d grow on me, and it never did. Warren Christie is now free to be on other shows, ones I might like as much as others he’s been on, so I’m not too sad about this.
My problem with the Stan Lee formula is that it skews too far from the DC formula he wanted to counter (that all heroes were smart, wealthy altruists). The fantasy behind comics is “how great would it be to have power!” Where’s the pleasure in being told you’d still be the same pathetic sad-sack you were before?
In Misfits everyone got their powers from a mysterious cloud, and while the show focused on low-class delinquents doing community service (endlessly, for spurious reasons) I don’t recall one person in London competently handling the change. C’mon.