‘Misfits’ Series 5 Episode 1 spoiler-free review
‘This is a chance to use your cock for good!’
And just like that, Misfits is back.
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‘This is a chance to use your cock for good!’
And just like that, Misfits is back.
Wow. We’ll get to that final moment in a minute, but first let’s look back to where it all began.
In our review of the first episode we called Tommy Shelby ‘the conquering Alexander wearing a crown of razor blades’ (We did. Honest), and over the past six weeks we’ve watched as Tommy the Great has expanded his Brummie Empire through cunning and violence to the point where he’s a legitimate power in every sense of the words.
Misfits returns to E4 this autumn for a final series and the gang have to up their game considerably if they’re going to tackle some real life A-grade superpowered vigilantes.
It’s not surprising that Scandinavian culture-clash cop show The Bridge has been adapted. What is surprising is that more dramas haven’t been based around The Channel Tunnel. The 31 mile subaquatic claustrophobia pipe filled with hurtling metal and disparate lives is a big concrete sausage of stories, yet to date the most dramatic thing to have happened in it was the denouement to Mission: Impossible. And that was 17 years ago.
With a recent stash of missing episodes recovered, Doctor Who fans may feel their Christmas has come early. But the real thing hasn’t yet. So put down that cracker. Don’t let those advent calendars in the shops fool you: Noddy Holder won’t be defrosted from his regenerative slumber for at least another month.
Ever had that recurring nightmare where you’re about to sit your finals for Starfleet Academy but – oh no! – you’ve not studied and, even worse, you’re suddenly naked and doing the Kobayashi Maru test? Oh, hey, us neither… But fear not young cadet, Star Trek Federation is here to help. With the knowledge, not the nudity.
When is a show’s finale not its finale?
Peaky Blinders‘ penultimate episode has the dramatic neatness of a conclusion, cemented by the ominous sensation of finality as Tommy Shelby dramatically commutes through a graveyard (he’s always walking, even though he owns one of the few motorcars around), and yet we haven’t reached the end quite yet.
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but they never saw Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz, which is the best looking thing to happen to Star Trek since Karl Urban’s hair.
It’s almost as if the abrasive industrial landscape of Birmingham scours away the principles of all who set foot in its dark and vice-riddled back streets. The same can be said of Birmingham back in 1919 too (we kid, we kid!), because as Peaky Blinders reaches its fourth episode, people are willing to compromise almost every principle in order to get what they want.
Eight years ago, Ted Mosby sat his telegenic children down and began to tell them one long story.
During that eight years, Facebook and Twitter came into being. As did the iPhone, Breaking Bad and the entire country of South Sudan. Yes, whole new cultures, communications, and nations have been forged in the time it’s taken Ted Mosby to narrate just one story: How I Met Your Mother.