Paradoxically, for an episode that features terminally ill teens, Episode 6 is one of the funniest the show has produced. Crudity comes so naturally to Misfits that, though you may become acclimatised to it, you never get bored of it, because it’s always so inventive. Watching Being Human‘s Kate Bracken walking in on Alex (Matt Stokoe) about to essentially sexually assault a man wearing a paper bag with a face drawn on it shouldn’t be at all funny – the cognitive dissonance between your chuckle reflex and what you’re seeing is vast – and yet you laugh. We did. Clearly we are broken, our compass fucked.

Back to the dying teens. It’s a subject which is actually treated with some sympathy and as much of a moral message as you’re ever likely to get from the super-ASBO show: you don’t have to pussyfoot around discussing terminal illness, but you should never treat it lightly. Like Finn and the faker do. Skin cancer sufferer Lucas sucks the will to live from both of them so he can use it to keep going, leading to two very powerful scenes of suicide, one successful, the other very nearly so. And though Finn escapes death, rightly the show isn’t so flippant as to provide a super-powered get-out to Lucas’s disease. This is the real world after all. Well, real-ish.

Elsewhere, the selfish but sexy Geordie Jeans spokesman Alex is put under a big fat gypsy curse which forces him to always do the right thing, and gives Matt Stokoe some uncomfortably good scenes and very funny one liners. Late though it is in the game, it’s a great demonstration of Stokoe’s comic delivery. Shame he couldn’t have had lines this sharp in Series 4 – we’d have warmed to him much sooner.

Speaking of warming, Rudy can’t get his penis warmed up and working because – rather sweetly – he loves Jess, and it’s all adorable and hilarious and everything you wanted to see when you saw them get toegther. His alter-ego Rudy 2’s not only got some tingle in his dingle thanks to Electric Helen (another Being Human alumna, Ellie Kendrick), he’s also getting wood over the prospect of being part of a superhero team, bless.

Once again, as it has done this entire series, we end on Rudy 2’s wide-eyed dreaming of everyone becoming superheroes. And now that Kate Bracken’s chameleon carer has been woven into the plot we appear to be at the completion of The Jumper Justice League. A cuddly, more wholesome band of superfolk? This is Misfits. No way that’s going to happen.

Aired at 10pm on Wednesday 27 November 2013 on E4.

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