Misfits Series 3 - Review

Release Year: 2011
Country: UK
Cert (UK): 18
Running Time: 45 Minutes each episode.
Created by: Howard Overman

Cast: Antonia Thomas (feature role), Lauren Socha (The Unloved), Iwan Rheon (Secret Diary of a Call Girl), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Casualty) and Joseph Gilgun (This Is England)

Review
Brief storyline of the season, continues after the events of Series 2 with returning characters Simon, Kelly, Alisha and Curtis - are joined by new kid on the block Rudy for community service. Rudy gets a rude awakening in his first few days as he learns that with the keys to the infamous locker room comes a great deal of running and screaming and, in some instances, killing.

Misfits has been one of these shows, when the writing is smart, funny and emotional it’s the best to watch on Saturday night but when it’s slow, stupid and drags out the jokes too long it can be the worst show to watch, that’s I found watching Misfits throughout the three years of it being air on E4,   Series 1 went with the “Skins” idea of individual character episode then later on having a group episode now and again, this didn’t work for myself has it took forever into and I ended up disliking some of the characters straight away. With Series 2 on other hand it blow me away with its brilliant new storyline of Sam traveling through time to save Alisha…much like the TV series “Heroes” but with a teen like twist, which surprisely worked very well especially as Nathan played by Robert Sheehan is funny character to watch he’s acting was miles better, even the jokes was well done so it was sad to see him leave the show, in my opinion the last series was best for a lot of different reasons.

Now the group are back again with Series 3 but with some major changes, Robert Sheehan, who played the outspoken Nathan, decided to leave the show to follow he’s path in films and other projects which brings a brand new character of Ruby who is foul mouthed and slightly mad. Lucky I enjoy watching he’s type of comedy and I found he’s character to be very interesting in some episodes, so it takes place where the end of series two left off with the group each having new powers as a result of trading them for others. This is a good method for the writers to add fresh impetus into the series by exploring new angles, the show continues to do things its own way by telling its own unique stories whilst retaining the series trademark dark humour. So has this series done better than last year? Well…..Yes! And …..No! There’s a lot of hit and miss episodes throughout the series, the opening is funny, interesting and done well with including the new guy Ruby plus it was great to see the cast with new powers, apart from Curtis' ability of changing into a woman episode 2 was the worst story (and worst power) that I’ve seen in any superhero type series, I really don’t know what the writers were thinking but the weird thing is that episode 3 had a brilliant storyline of Sam facing against Peter (the comic book nerd) linking to the events of series 2, it goes to show when the writing is well done it’s a fantastic show but by doing stories like Curtis’s sex change or Ruby’s dick falling off lol then it’s stupid to watch, thank god they removed power with this resurrection idea (which was a great episode).

Overall this series does contain a lot of good episodes with Sam’s mask superhero storyline and Seth (the power dealer) relationship with Kelly, episode five is the emotional episode and the finale was brilliant with returning characters but also had some hit and miss episodes, which can be off putting. If you in enjoyed the last year and dark humour which goes with it, your probably like this series.

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