Misfits · Season 1 · E4
Misfits Season 1
Misfits Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.5/10. 6 episodes on E4 from 12 November 2009.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Series 1 premiered on E4 in November 2009 and immediately won the 2010 BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Series - a striking achievement for a low-budget youth comedy about community service workers in a southeast London estate. Critics gave it a 100% Rotten Tomatoes debut score. The consensus fixed on writer Howard Overman's gift for embedding genuine darkness inside crude comedy, and on Robert Sheehan's Nathan as one of the decade's great British TV characters: disarmingly witty, self-destructive, and impossible to dismiss. The show drew comparison to Skins and Dead Set but quickly established its own register: the superhero genre rebuilt from scratch by writers who found it absurd. The audience scored it 8.1 on IMDb across all five series.
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The Room
“A thoroughly enjoyable concept, very well done, in the safe hands of a capable cast.”
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Standout Episodes
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- E1Episode 18.5
The pilot drops five immediately distinguishable archetypes - the charmer, the thug, the quiet girl, the athlete, the outsider - into community service and then into a storm that changes all the rules. What separates it from a dozen similar high-concept British dramas is the tone: gleefully inappropriate, genuinely funny, and darker than any network equivalent would permit.
The moment: The storm sequence itself - the moment the genre premise snaps into place and the show declares what kind of beast it is.
“A thoroughly enjoyable concept, very well done, in the safe hands of a capable cast.” — Den of Geek