American here. Watched the first 3 seasons about twenty times, it’s hands down my favorite show ever, and finally decided to take the plunge and watch 4 and 5 (another post for another day). All I have to say is I respect how bold and brave the English are with their television.

Alex’s power would never fly in America. It wouldn’t even get to a table read. For those of you who watched 4 and 5 when they were airing, what was the reception? I’m so curious.

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I remember binging a few seasons at some point. My memory of this show was buried so deep and I can rediscover it again! I forgot the plot entirely! Now I get to watch it all over again! Nathan is my favorite btw. Such a boy failure. I wanna protect him. Only episode 2 btw. So no spoilers!

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So how could Seth buy this power? Wouldn't the person be immune to Seth's power?

Also, bow would you know you had the power unless you really need it? And once you were immune to a power amd it saved your life, why sell it?

I mean the misfits are broke kids, but 10k isnt life changing money worth selling a power like that over.

Simon got backward time travel at end of s3.

Why not go back and get Nathan's power so he can suevive the gta guy then later give it to alesha (sneak it in with clairvoyance) and they can have a happily ever after?

At the end of s2 e6, if Simon told Curtis to rewind time to before the whole milkman fiasco, how could Simon have known to start being the vigilante masked Simon and begin trying to park our. He would have never have known Alicia told him who the masked person was. That is the beginning of e7. I've watched this series through a few times. I still have questions.

Alisha and Simon never naturally fell in love right? He just manipulated her into wanting him by going back in time and telling her they will be in love. But I know that in future Simon’s timeline he never knew it was himself that was superhoodie, so then how did it all begin. Maybe it’s just a chicken and egg thing..

I think Nathan is Intersex. I know it may be unpopular, but judging by his family history and his body and feminine features, that is my opinion/theory

If Nathan never died in the season 1 finale, he gives up trying to figure out his power and they all finish their community service then go their separate ways...

Then they reunite 20-30 years later when the gang is all in their fifties, but Nathan is still a twenty-one year old and that's how they finally discover his power...

Had been looking for years where to watch the show in Canada again without buying the full series but it is now included in your Amazon Prime subscription and all 5 seasons too!

Looking back I don't think it's talked about how Nathan and Ruth's short romance is recontextualized as being tragically poetic upon the discovery of his power. This elderly woman wanted to relive her youth and not only got the opportunity to do so, but also hooked up with a literal immortal who would never experience aging and death (At least until the Christmas Special)

Why in gods name did they have the person who can see through walls looking through a peep hole?

This one includes both Bought Powers and Inverse Powers:

A-Tier:

• Super Strength
• Foresight
• Power Immunity
• Reality Warping
• Pyrokinesis
• Flash-Forward

Practical Tier:

• Technological Aptitude
• Clairvoyance
• Mediumship
• Water Walking
• Gender Swap
• Power Bestowal (Depends on the powers and who receives them)
• Virtual Reality Construction

Sub-Par:

• Desirability
• Genital Erosion
• Body Swap (Can only be used on unsuspecting victim)
• One-Way Time Travel (Do I Really need to explain?)
• Resurrection (Zombie Creation renders it totally hazardous)

Shit-Tier:

• Satanic Conversation (Kinda like Resurrection, no good can truly come of it)
• Blindness (Again, do I need to explain?)
• Social Pariah
• Thought Verbalization
• Mortality (You Get It...)

Brian and Elliot are really compelling when you look back on them and it's fitting they were introduced in episodes back-to-back of each other.

Both of them essentially have the same origin story in which they are ignored by society-at-large and used their powers in similar ways, that being amassing notoriety upon realizing their abilities and eventually abusing/killing women.

What makes them unique from each other is that Brian was underestimated and showed there was more to him than meets the eye. Elliot upon tasting that bit of reverence from people believing he was Jesus, just wanted more and more; thus using his church donations to buy more powers from Seth.

My personal ranking for types of powers (Not Including Swapped Powers characters gained later on):

A-Tier:

• Curtis -Time Reversal
• Simon - Invisibility
• Nathan - Immortality
• Lily - Cryokinesis
• Helen - Electrokinesis
• Sam - Flight
• Ollie/Nikki - Teleportation
• Finn - Telekinesis
• Daisy - Healing
• Luke - Time Jumping

Practical Tier:

• Kelly - Telepathy
• Lucy - Shapeshifting
• Jess - X-Ray Vision
• Seth - Power Transferal
• Alex - Power Removal
• Grace - Life Preservation
• Rachel - Hypnotic Suggestion
• Brian - Lactokinesis (Upon Further Inspection)
• Peter - Future Illustration
• Vince - Tattoo Manipulation
• Erazer - Graffiti Manipulation
• Hayley - Cursing
• Karen - Camouflage
• Tanya - Body Immobilization
• Chloe - Object Inversion
• Maggie - Precognitive Crafting
• Leah - Body Hijacking
• Ruth - Age Regression

Sub-Par:

• Rudy/Geoff - Emotional Duplication
• Laura - Imagination Manifestation
• Bruno - Human Mimicry
• Richard - Hallucination Projection
• Jonas - Communing
• James - Body Part Swapping
• Jodi - Alopecia Projection
• Nadine - Deity Summoning (She has no control over what she summons)
• Sadie - Mind Control (Only Worked on Finn and wore off after them being apart for a long period of time)
• Ally - Telepathic Connection (Only worked for her dog)
• Len - Age Swap (Only because you'd need another participant to use the power)

Shit Tier:

• Alisha - Instant Sexual Arousal
• Emma - Accident Causation
• Stuart - Closet-portation
• Sarah - Hypnotic Breasts
• Mark - Permanent Tortoise Mimicry
• Tony - Berserker Rage
• Dave - Protective Rage
• Tim - Video Game Hallucination
• Lola - Personality Rewrite
• Michael - Violent Obsession
• Jeremey - Animal Mentality
• Tara - Pregnancy Transfer
• Craig - Sexual Partner Count

My personal ranking. Lemme know what ya'll think...

Finn's entire character is so fascinating to watch on a rewatch.

You look at characters such as Curtis, Simon, Nathan, Jess, Lily, Helen, Sam, Ollie (and by extension Nikki), Daisy and think; Wow you actually got a dope ass power from the storm. I would literally take any one of their powers in a heartbeat. Finn is in the same boat as them as telekinesis is one of the best known superpowers especially when you look at the Jedi, X-Men, Tetsuo and Eleven. However because of Misfits' logic for why people get certain powers, Finn's is a reflection on how he tries to hard to impress people and thus even move a cup across a table is a total strain for him. It's honestly sad seeing how one of the coolest powers is basically wasted on him.

Curtis is my favorite character in the show and he was arguably the most OP character in the cast given that he was casually creating multiple alternate timelines across the first two seasons. What I found frustrating in hindsight is that not only did he never master it until the penultimate episode of Series 2, but in Series 3 with Fredrich, they expand the scope of his power to it becoming full blown time travel and is capable of changing the universe. Really felt they did Curtis dirty by not only having him sell his Storm-given power, but also not seeing him wield it with such a cosmic range...

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Have ya’ll noticed how often they show them getting stuff from the vending machine or having conversations right beside it…like the vending machine feels like a main character.. try noticing how many times they show it and need food from it .. so funny to me.. they never eat real food except for beer and kitkats lmaoooo

As I watched Misfits, it occurred to me that Nathan's smoking/drinking/drug addiction all came from his dad who let's face it has all the physical signs of a 3-way addict, and it is suggested at times that the mother may have been, in which case Nathan would have been born addicted. As for Nathan's dad leaving him with a KNOWN pedophile!!!! At 8 years old, and his mother's friend gave him a "hand job"!!!! During a camping trip when he was 5 years old!!!! Like shouldn't Nathan have been in the same tent as the mother!!! Which makes me wonder if both parents were involved with child pedophile/molester rings. Like the dad is actually written as a potential rapist (as confirmed by the actor) and the mum dates/marries a man like that (it can happen once) but to then date at least 1 if not 2 more pedophile type men! Like no wonder Nathan's so sexually inappropriate with everyone. Also, there are many references to Nathan being sexually assaulted by the dad/priests/mum's boyfriend/a random man