12/13/13 12:30AM
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There's a fantastic feeling that only a few shows can instill when they're finished. It's partially “that was really…
Reviews - Misfits
12/05/13 10:30PM
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If there’s been an unambiguously positive part of this season of Misfits, it’s been the development of Matt Stokoe’s…
11/28/13 5:30PM
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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…
11/21/13 10:35PM
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How do you solve a problem like Finn? It's impossible to forget that his primary introduction to the show was that…
11/14/13 7:40PM
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That is more like it. I'm not going to go and declare that this is an episode that stands with the very best…
11/07/13 9:45PM
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I regretted last week's framing of Misfits' first two episodes as proof that the show was getting tired. I wasn't…
10/31/13 8:40PM
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“Season Five, Episode One”
Misfits has always relied on surprise and the unexpected. From the very beginning, with…
12/17/12 4:45PM
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12/10/12 5:30PM
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What makes us who we are? In an episode about a man trying to recover his lost penis, Misfits tries to deal with…
12/03/12 5:00PM
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Through its entire run, Misfits has used the idea of structural balance—and imbalance—to keep each episode fresh.…
11/26/12 9:20PM
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The weirdest thing about this episode of Misfits is how weird it isn’t. It’s been seven or eight episodes since we…
11/19/12 4:00PM
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Look. There are rules by which TV is supposed to abide. The biggest of them? Major character developments that…
11/12/12 4:30PM
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“I ♥ Bad Boys” says the graffiti. It’s a message from Lola, supposedly the trainee-probation worker, to Curtis,…
11/05/12 4:00PM
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One of the most common uses of speculative fiction on television is when it’s held up as a mirror for society. The…
10/29/12 4:00PM
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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…
2/06/12 10:00PM
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The biggest problem with serialized storytelling isn’t that it’s too easy to make mistakes. Mistakes happen over…
1/30/12 8:50PM
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This episode of Misfits offers an interesting example of how preconceptions can alter an episode. Having seen the…
1/24/12 1:10AM
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It’s always nice to see Misfits do a sex episode. It’s one of the few shows that actually attempts to treat…
1/16/12 7:20PM
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It’s hard for a dynamic show like Misfits that only has six or seven-episode seasons to have conventional episodes,…
1/09/12 7:20PM
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In one sense, this episode of Misfits is batshit insane. In another, it follows its own inexorable logic. Two things…