Last week’s opener felt unbalanced. Too many penis puns, not enough plot. But this week has everything in just the right amounts. It’s a Sunday roast of an episode – Rudy’s lamb lunch before the condiment avalanche – all the right ingredients are on the plate and everything looks great. Come on dude, pull up a chair and smell the lamb.

The meat of the episode is Rudy and his dad, in a father/son coming-to-terms story that’s elevated above its simplicity by its chief players. And super powers. Gilgun has the exterior of a bloke who’d sell you a dead cockerel in a carrier bag in a pub toilet, but inside he’s a truly incredible talent. One minute he can be gushing expletives like a man suffering from a sweary norovirus, the next he’ll pull a face evoking a puppy abandoned in an abattoir. Naturally the outrage and vulnerability that his dads’ actions bring out in Rudy brings the best out in his performance.

Stella Street‘s Phil Cornwell (last seen looking like a malnourished Peter Capaldi in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa) is the perfect fit as Rudy’s dad(s) Geoff, not simply for the grubby resemblance, but that he provides enough shade and distinction between the chummy and violent Ru-dads without either of them becoming pantomime. You’d have to be a 5 year old not to have worked out there were two of them before it was revealed, but that didn’t make any part of his performance any less enjoyable.

More generous than just giving a solid central story, Episode 2 piles your plate high with a spaghetti of plot stands to sink your teeth into. Oh, wait, we were likening everything to Sunday lunch earlier… Erm… roast potatoes of plot, then. Rudy and Jess’s potential relationship (aww, it’d be sweet – weird, but sweet), Sam, the boy who can fly remarkably well on a Misfits FX budget and who looks likely to be part of the gang if the knitted prophecy is to be trusted, Rudy 2’s friendship with GTA Tim, and most interesting, just what the deal with Abby is.

Until now Abby’s (Natasha O’Keeffe) felt like an unaccomplished challenge the writers set themselves: ‘Lets have a girl with no memory or personality!’. O’Keeffe has managed to turn Abby’s difficult shallow oddity into something charming, but as the episode ends it’s a relief to see something more concrete creeping into her character. Something finally being put on an empty plate.

Misfits earned its Cornetto this week. And we can’t wait to tuck into next week’s episode. Until then, pass us the mint sauce would you? We fancy seconds.

Aired at 10pm on Wednesday 30 October 2013 on E4.

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