There isn’t another show like it. In the half-decade that it’s been on our screens nothing’s dared to be, or been so successful at being, so rude, so weird, so happy to exist, and yet so accessible for its audience. It’s hard to imagine what will take its place, if anything.

For the moment though, imagination is a dangerous commodity. Turns out Laura (you know Laura: brunette, petite, great smelling) from last week has a much greater connection to Abby than a mutual favourite scent and a love of cunnilingus. Abby is her imaginary friend, brought to life by The Storm, which means Abby going down on her is rather like Frankenstein’s monster French-kissing his Creator.

There is something Frankensteinian about Episode 3. The idea of the creator rejecting the person it created, and of the created person causing havoc to the creator’s life, runs strongly throughout. Abby is rejected by Laura and as a result there’s tears and feelings: it’s Mary Shelley meets The L Word.

Lip Service’s Natasha O’Keeffe does brilliant work here dealing with the friction of being fiction, but you can’t help but worry where her character goes from here. It doesn’t so much open up new avenues of possibility as reinforce the one thing about her that we already knew: she’s almost too kooky to be true.

In the face of what is enough of a personal drama, Laura’s imaginary monster ‘Scary’ feels unnecessary, particularly as he’s left to the last 5 minutes and is dispatched quicker than your average Happy Meal. There’s probably a lesson about accepting and overcoming childhood fears in there somewhere, but if you’re watching Misfits, then your childhood was over a long time ago, physically, mentally, philosophically.

Like Abby, Rudy 2 also feels abandoned by the person he sprang from, but this isn’t Joe Gilgun’s episode to run away with. Shaun ‘Right now at Morrissons’ Dooley – the best thing to happen to Misfits since the invention of the orange boiler suit – grabs the wheel of the episode and veers it into the oncoming path of your expectations at full speed.

Why is Probation Worker Greg so weird? So… intense? It doesn’t matter. Don’t overthink it. It’s a performance that blazes beyond caricature or parody and rockets face first into acting territory so unknown that, like Finn, you just have to grin and nod and wonder if all this is really real.

But it is real. So just enjoy it. You’d never get a character quite like Dooley’s anywhere else on TV. You’d never have plots as mad as you got this week. Or last week. Or 3 years ago. And in 5 weeks time we’ll miss them.

Aired at 10pm on Wednesday 6 November 2013 on E4.

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