‘Misfits’ Series 5 episode guide
Misfits returns to E4 this autumn for a final series of eight new episodes.
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Misfits returns to E4 this autumn for a final series of eight new episodes.
BBC One’s new adventure series Atlantis continues this weekend with ‘The Price of Hope’ and, after the tragic events surrounding Medusa’s disappearance, the boys pay a visit to the inventor Daedalus, whose genius offers hope of a cure.
After a two-week wait, making way for Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary, Atlantis returned with its strongest episode to date.
No sooner had Medusa (Jemima Rooper) begun to respond warmly to Hercules’ romantic overtures, with the big man promising to mend his gambling and womanising ways, one of his creditors came calling. Taking Medusa hostage, Kryos demanded a descent into the underworld to retrieve a mysterious box.
After the broader scope of Ariadne’s royal fortunes and Jason’s fate in the ring, this was a more intimate, family tale.
It tends to happen once every series. Amid the crudity Misfits will produce an episode that manages to touch you right there.
BBC One’s new adventure series Atlantis continues this weekend with ‘The Furies’ Pythagoras’s brother joins the gang to escort a precious cargo across the desert
After last week’s focus on Hercules and his romantic travails, we returned to a broader story which drew in the members of the Altantean royal court. Beginning with a pronouncement from King Minos, celebrations began for the engagement of Princess Ariadne to the oily Heptarian with the announcement of a Pankration, a brutal fighting contest.
It’s only when Misfits flies from our screens in – ooh, whoa, just 5 weeks’ time – that we’ll fully understand the unique position it built itself out of concrete and profanity and the colour orange.
Beginning with some sweaty physical action, Hercules took part in a wrestling contest seeking to impress Medusa. In the aftermath of his inevitable defeat, Jason and Pythagoras discussed their friend’s shortcomings and the foolishness of his infatuation. Overhearing, the big man took umbrage and, after praying at the temple of Aphrodite, he was tempted with talk of a witch who could aid his predicament.
Misfits never turns out a bad episode when it puts Joe Gilgun’s living embodiment of a Freudian slip, Rudy, at the centre of events. Not just because it gives a writer two characters for the price of one to play with, or because Rudy is now the most fully-fledged character on the show, but because Gilgun manages to convincingly sell whatever he’s doing. Even if that’s just eating mustard.