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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“A thoroughly enjoyable concept, very well done, in the safe hands of a capable cast.”
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Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E1Episode 17.8
A sharp, grubby opener where powers feel less like gifts than evidence waiting to be found.
The moment: The storm sequence itself - the moment the genre premise snaps into place and the show declares what kind of beast it is.
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