On demand streaming aside, TV has always had a difficult relationship with the Internet; usually portraying the big WWW as a foreboding electronic miasma of danger, an infinite neon haunted house. In Misfits, it’s being used to find love. And to watch people take a dump.

Meet Leah, an Internet-addicted shut-in who has the power to upload her personality into other people simply by phoning them, essentially turning them into her avatars. She’s living a fleshy Second Life (apparently still a thing, we checked). She can also download people’s consciousness onto a memory stick. Is that the sound of a deus ex machina we can hear being formed for the future…? Given the bloodshed predicted by the jumper, it wouldn’t be a surprise if one of our gang ended the series either in a new body or living on a computer screen. Finn 2.0, anyone?

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Finn is Tronned and trapped in a Sims cyber-bedsit by the infatuated Leah. Just as you begin to feel sorry for him you can’t help but be reminded of the fact that when we first met Finn he had his girlfriend tied to his bed. Maybe it’s that curious carer relationship rearing its head again – or maybe it’s just he’s desperate for a girlfriend – that leads Finn to sympathise with Leah after he’s been rescued. Are they about to be the second oddest couple in the show?

The Wi-Fi hijinks continue with the oddest couple, the defiantly cute Rudy and Jess. A video of Jess on the toilet goes viral online, all because of Rudy’s naïve but well-intended idea that he can spare Finn’s feelings. It’s typical hilarious Misfits crudity, made more palatable by the fact Rudy’s trying to be a sensitive human being, and that Karla Crome plays outrage with such fiery comedic gusto it makes you wish she’s spend the remainder of the series perpetually aggravated. Dating Rudy she might well do.

Speaking of Jess and aggravation, why, when she has x-ray vision does Jess insist on physically looking through things such as peepholes and gaps in wardrobes? Use your power, lady! Twice it’s happened now and twice it’s felt less like an excuse for a dramatic snapshot and more like sloppy scripting.

That’s a minor niggle in what is otherwise the strongest episode Misfits has created in quite some time. With Finn and Leah, and Rudy and Jess coupled up, it turns out that it is possible to find love through the Internet. And despite it. That’s quite sweet really. Remind us to add Misfits to our interests on our dating profile.

Aired at 10pm on Wednesday 20 November 2013 on E4.

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