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Misfits 1.06

Kelvin Green, Paul Brian McCoy
July 25, 2011
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Paul Brian McCoy: So Season One of Misfits wraps things up with a very interesting little bow, I think. We’ve got a nicely paced done-in-one, plus the reveal of Nathan’s power, all set to a fantastic soundtrack!

Kelvin Green: Yes, lots going on in this one, and there’s a real sense of culmination.

I loved the soundtrack. The bit where they all have their headphones in and they each have their own theme tunes was brilliant.

Paul: Agreed. Just perfect.

Kelvin: I especially liked how they mixed when they were together, so you had Nathan’s “Smack My Bitch Up” mixing with Simon’s synthpop.

I had a bit of a stupid grin at that point.

Ready
Paul: I had that grin during the whole damn show.

This really was a fantastic culmination of the whole first series.

Kelvin: It was a really good finale. Such a perfect ending too, going for poignant, then pulling one final twist.

Paul: It was also a slick scaling up of the threat, with Virtue threatening to go global there at the end, marking out cities on the map of Europe as Nathan slips in to do his thing.

Kelvin: Yes, a proper supehero-type threat. I like it when Misfits toys with its parent genre like that; Like in Series Two, with the introduction of Super Hoodie, although he makes a cameo in this episode.

Paul: Yes! The first look at Super Hoodie!

Super Hoodie

I love how they went ahead and included him here, then closed out the series with such a surprise cliffhanger when they couldn’t have known whether or not they’d be back for a second season.

That’s ballsy.

Kelvin: Yes indeed, although I wonder if they knew who he was at this point?

Paul: Who knows?

Kelvin: Or if it was a Final Five Cylons type affair, or, you know, the entirety of Lost.

Paul: Speaking of balls. I think my favorite line in this episode was Simons, “I’ve always had a pair of balls, you’ve just never seen them!”

Kelvin: Yes, that was a great line, although I’m sure I’ve heard it before somewhere.

Paul: Followed by Nathan’s “That’s the gayest thing I’ve ever heard.”

Kelvin: that bit was certainly new, however! Speaking of which, I loved Nathan’s Reservoir Dogs moment: sharp suit, check; big gun, check; classic tune, check!

Nathan
Paul: Yes!

Simon really took a turn for the creepy in this episode. Even creepier than before.

Kelvin: Yes, Simon upped the creepy in this episode, with his little visits to the freezer room. I think they may have decided to tone down on this in Series Two, as they did away with this stuff early on, as I recall.

Paul: His pizza date was just wrong.

Kelvin: Well, he was hiding from the culty types and I got the feeling it was Nathan and Kelly’s pizza from earlier, so I don’t think it was intended, but he did give his “date” some odd looks.

Sally
Paul: Just the fact that he’d propped her up as though she was hanging out with him was disturbed. But yeah, Season Two really shifts the tone when it comes to Simon. It becomes more his show.

Kelvin: Yes, it’s good they managed to shift the focus before Sheehan left, so it makes the transition easier.

Paul: Looking back, the show has always really had the two of them as the narrative core.

Kelvin: I liked how they had some moments together in this episode, including the “You’re not Barry?” bit. That counts as a relationship for Nathan!

Paul: Yeah, “I thought we were freinds!”

Kelvin: And both got proper heroic moments this time too.

Paul: Another favorite part of this episode was Nathan’s speech on the roof at the end.

Kelvin: Yes, the dramatic music – the music is excellent on this show – gave it a sense of importance, and Sheehan’s delivery was brilliant.

So Beautiful
Paul: That’s the sort of monologue I’d pick if I were auditioning for something, or teaching a small child to deliver in a YouTube video.

Kelvin: And I like how, even though he and Simon were being heroic, it is always tempered; Simon makes his move almost too late, and Nathan’s final resistance has more than a little selfishness to it.

Paul: They succeed despite their best efforts, you might say.

Kelvin: They’re heroes, but they’re not perfect, but nor does the show go the other way and make them too flawed. They’re normal.

In many ways, Misfits is probably the closest adaptation of Stan Lee’s flawed hero concept.

Paul: It surely is.

Changing gears for a moment, I thought it was great how “Would you like to come to a meeting?” becomes the equivalent of the Body Snatchers horrible Screech-While-Pointing in this show.

Kelvin: I found the cult really creepy. A combination of the way they filmed it – like a zombie or Body Snatchers type thing – and those depressing grey locations.

Paul: Yeah. They were “lucky” that Rachel was a goody-goody virgin and not someone like Simon. Or like Simon without any sense of morality.

Kelvin: Yes indeed! But then it fits with the scale of the show. There are no megalomaniacal villains in Misfits world. Just ordinary folk.

Paul: True. That’s maybe my favorite thing about the whole Misfits concept. This seems to really be what it would be like if ordinary people just started getting powers. Not like Heroes or whatever other junk is on TV.

Kelvin: Agreed entirely.

Paul: Syfy’s Alphas is doing a good job (after 2 episodes) of skirting that fine line, too. I’m quite impressed so far. There’s your standard Untrustworthy Government angle being played, but still…

Kelvin: There’s the acknowledgement that yes, they’ll be selfish and exploit their powers, but also that not everyone is a sordid bastard and sometimes they will try to do good.

Paul: Exactly! Nobody’s a caricature of good or evil. There’s always a mix.

Kelvin: Yep, interesting, rounded characters.

Paul: Everybody’s trying to do what they can to help themselves, and sometimes others. Even Rachel (Jessica Brown Findlay), the leader of Virtue, was brainwashing everyone for “their own good.”

Rachel
Kelvin: Yes, she was just trying to do good, instead of robbing banks.

Paul: I wonder if that’s another subtle theme slipping out there. That no good can come from trying to force people into a better world/life. That you’ve got to take care of you and yours and hopefully the rest will follow.

Kelvin: I suppose. We’ve seen that with Curtis’ attempts to change things for the better too.

Paul: True.

Kelvin: Even the less ambiguous heroics of Series Two (SPOILER) are restricted to the core family of the show.

Paul: Or quickly go off the rails.

So, should we address the revelation of Nathan’s power?

SPOILER ALERT!!

Kelvin: Well, you’ve been teasing it all these weeks.

SPOILERTASTIC!

Paul: That was mainly for Felicity’s benefit, as she hadn’t seen it. (If you’re reading this Felicity, STOP NOW or be spoiled!)

Kelvin: As I mentioned earlier, it was a fine twist at a poignant moment. We all think Nathan is dead, the programme goes out of its way to make it seem as if he’d dead, and he is dead. but…

But he gets better.

Paul: Another real strength of the writing on this show is how everyone’s powers are manifestations of their personalities and ultimate desires in very clever ways.

Kelvin: Yes, Nathan’s a survivor. He doesn’t let the world get to him, and just lets the worst of it roll off his back. Even death.

Virtuous
Paul: Absolutely oblivious to consequence. Convinced he’ll never come to any real harm, he’s surely never going to die.

Kelvin: Yes, even the greatest consequence of all holds no fear for him. Although as he gets closer to the rest of the group, new consequences arise, but that’s a discussion for another day.

Paul: He really is the one who most embodies that sense of immortality that most kids his age seem to have. Stupid and mindless though it is.

Kelvin: Yes, exactly. So that speech of his is almost like foreshadowing.

Paul: It’s damn near perfection. His very own St. Crispin’s Day speech.

Kelvin: Ha! Yes!

I think you’ve just compared a vulgar “yoof” programme to Shakespeare!

Paul: Shakespeare would have loved this shit.

Kelvin: Fo sho, stout yeoman!

Paul: Nathan is Falstaff.

Kelvin: Does that make Simon Henry?

Paul: It kind of does!

Kelvin: Brilliant.

Paul: That sounds like as good a place as any to choose our score for this episode. What say ye?

Kelvin: Ooh, good question. No less than four, certainly, and pushing a five. Let’s go for 4.5 stars.

Paul: I’m all in. 5 stars for me.

This was a clinic on how to do a superhero show and make it relevant.

Kelvin: The only reason it’s not getting a five from me is because there are a couple of Series Two episodes which are even better.

Paul: Yeah, that’s true, but I’ll deal with that when we get there. And thankfully, new viewers won’t have to wait a year to see what happens!

Kelvin: But yes, you’re right. Textbook TV superheroics.

Does series two follow straight on then?

Paul: Yup, Monday starts Season 2 on Hulu.

Kelvin: Good stuff!

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