Remotely Interesting: 'Misfits' just super

Perhaps the best, most definitely the strangest, take on superheroes has returned to television.

It started last week, and I didn't tell you.

So before you this Tuesday morning is a panicked attempt to make sure you watch Misfits tonight, despite the fact you may have missed episode one.

This attempt takes in the possibility that you may have an important dinner date with your boss's wife, with whom you are hoping to start an affair, or a government minister you might want to blackmail, after seeing him or her up to no good in a city alleyway.

I don't know what you people do; I'm not some sort of magic mind-reader.

Frankly, though, I have my suspicions about some of you.

All I can do is suggest you break all engagements to keep your appointment with Misfits on Four at 9.30pm.

Misfits follows the adventures of some slightly dodgy London yoofs - young offenders who have been forced to do community service.

Series one introduced us to Nathan, Kelly, Curtis, Alisha, Simon and Gary, who had nothing in common except for the "community payback" scheme they were on, punishment for various crimes and misdemeanours.

When the group got caught in a freak storm on the first day, they discovered they had developed some unusual superpowers.

Those range from one misfit who ends up with a sexual attraction that can not be denied, to another who can go back and change what has just happened, to another who can disappear.

Unfortunately, the group has to kill their probation worker Tony, who develops superhuman strength, and a superhuman hatred of our heroes, and kills Gary.

Try to keep up here.

The team bury the corpses under a nearby flyover.

All of that, of course, is the past.

Series two has been and gone, and episode one of series three finds the gang still together, with new powers following events in series two.

Simon can glimpse into the future, Kelly (the chav) has a complete knowledge of rocket science, Alisha has a form of clairvoyance which allows her to see what other people are doing, and Curtis can change his sex at will.

Also, and this is one of the very best reasons for tuning in, the gang meets Rudy, who has the power of having a more sensitive double, one of whom has some very unpleasant sexual interests.

Rudy is played by Joseph Gilgun, who was on Coronation Street and Emmerdale, and who is brilliant.

Four has a special "webisode" on its website that is set at the end of Season 2 and prior to Season 3, and should fill you in on any blanks.

Misfits is unmissable, though not for the faint-hearted or the prudish, or anyone, really, with standards of any sort.

I loved it.

 

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