Misfits

There's a fantastic feeling that only a few shows can instill when they're finished. It's partially “that was really…

If there’s been an unambiguously positive part of this season of Misfits, it’s been the development of Matt Stokoe’s…

All right, A.V. Clubbers. It's my birthday, I'm drunk, and it's a holiday so nobody's going to read this anyway, so…

How do you solve a problem like Finn? It's impossible to forget that his primary introduction to the show was that…

That is more like it. I'm not going to go and declare that this is an episode that stands with the very best…

I regretted last week's framing of Misfits' first two episodes as proof that the show was getting tired. I wasn't…

“Season Five, Episode One”

Misfits has always relied on surprise and the unexpected. From the very beginning, with…

A marked grave.

What makes us who we are? In an episode about a man trying to recover his lost penis, Misfits tries to deal with…

Through its entire run, Misfits has used the idea of structural balance—and imbalance—to keep each episode fresh.…

The weirdest thing about this episode of Misfits is how weird it isn’t. It’s been seven or eight episodes since we…

Look. There are rules by which TV is supposed to abide. The biggest of them? Major character developments that…

“I ♥ Bad Boys” says the graffiti. It’s a message from Lola, supposedly the trainee-probation worker, to Curtis,…

One of the most common uses of speculative fiction on television is when it’s held up as a mirror for society. The…

I have to admit, I’m excited about this season of Misfits. I’m excited about it for the same reason that I’m excited…

The biggest problem with serialized storytelling isn’t that it’s too easy to make mistakes. Mistakes happen over…

This episode of Misfits offers an interesting example of how preconceptions can alter an episode. Having seen the…

It’s always nice to see Misfits do a sex episode. It’s one of the few shows that actually attempts to treat…

It’s hard for a dynamic show like Misfits that only has six or seven-episode seasons to have conventional episodes,…

In one sense, this episode of Misfits is batshit insane. In another, it follows its own inexorable logic. Two things…