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== Music ==
Muisc used in the series includes:<ref>[http://www.e4.com/misfits/music-playlists.html Official Misfits website]</ref>

'''Opening Credits'''
*"Echoes" - [[The Rapture (band) |The Rapture]]
'''Series 1'''
:Episode One
*"Out at the Pictures" - [[Hot Chip]]
*"We Don't Stop, Skip And Pounce" - C Pennington & Offkey
*"Here Today Gone Tomorrow" – [[Gang Starr]]
*"Heroin" – [[The Velvet Underground]]
*"You’ve Got The Love" – [[Florence and the Machine]]
*"Stick To Your Guns" – [[The Cribs]]
*"I'm Just A Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin)" – [[Candi Staton]]
*"Get Innocuous" – [[LCD Soundsystem]]
*"Lonely Soul" – [[Unkle]]
:Episode Two
*"Rollin And Tumblin" - [[Jeff Beck]]
*"24 Hours From Tulsa" - [[Gene Pitney]]
*"Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart" - [[Gene Pitney]]
*"Franz Schubert" - [[Kraftwerk]]
*"Atlantis To Interzone" - [[Klaxons]]
*"Tamphex" - [[Aphex Twin]]
*"On Dancefloors" - [[Metronomy]]
*"Europe Endless" - [[Kraftwerk]]
*"Woman Soon" - [[Urge Overkill]]
*"You’re Beautiful" - [[James Blunt]]
*"Atmosphere" - [[Joy Division]]
*"Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon - [[Neil Diamond]]
:Episode Three
*"Attitude" - [[Hardknox]]
*"Krazy Krush" - [[Ms Dynamite]]
*"Growing Pains" - [[La Roux]]
*"A Place Nobody Can Find" - [[Sam and Dave]]
*"Until We Bleed" - [[Kleerup]]
:Episode Four
*"Rudy A Message To You" - [[The Specials]]
*"Rolex Sweep (Vandalism Remix") - [[Skepta]]
*"Hotel California" - [[Gipsy Kings]]
*"Underdog" - [[Kasabian]]
*"Four Horsemen Of 2012" – [[Klaxons]]
*"Phantom Pt II (Boys Noize Remix)" - [[Justice (French band)|Justice]]
*"Stress" - [[Justice (French band)|Justice]]
*"E Trips" - [[Benga]]
*"26 Basslines" - [[Benga]]
*"Hometown Glory (High Contrast Remix)" - [[Adele]]
*"In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix)" - [[La Roux]]
*"Beautiful Burnout" - [[Underworld]]
:Episode Five
*"Not 19 Forever (Instrumental Mix)" - [[The Courteeners]]
*"(Baby) Hold Me Tight" - [[Kitty Daisy & Lewis]]
*"Stars" - [[The xx]]
*"Delicate" - [[Damien Rice]]
:Episode Six
*"Primary Colours" - [[The Horrors]]
*"Radioactivity" - [[Kraftwerk]]
*"Just Dance" - [[Lady Gaga]]
*"Smack My Bitch Up" - [[The Prodigy]]
*"That's Amore" - [[Dean Martin]]
*"Low Rider" - [[War]]
*"Pieces" - [[Chase & Status]]
*"Such Great Heights" - [[Iron And Wine]]
*"To The End" - [[Blur]]
'''Series 2'''
:Episode One
*"Take My Time/Rifles" - [[Black Rebel Motorcycle Club]]
*"Darlin" - [[Richard Hawley]]
*"Natural's Not In It" - [[Gang Of Four]]
*"Lullaby" - [[The Cure]]
*"All Come Down" - [[Steve Mason]]
:Episode Two
*"Smokestack Lightnin'" - [[Howlin' Wolf]]
*"Blue Blood Blues" - [[The Dead Weather]]
*"Answer To Yourself" - [[The Soft Pack]]
*"Dirge" - [[Death In Vegas]]
*"Swoon (Boyz Noize Summer Remix)" - [[The Chemical Brothers]]
*"Rocks" - Frederik Olufsen
*"Restless (Fake Blood Remix)" - [[UNKLE]]
*"Genesis" - [[Justice (French band)|Justice]]
*"U.F.O" - [[Matta]]
:Episode Three
*"Run Run Run" - [[The Velvet Underground]]
*"Thickfreakness" - [[The Black Keys]]
*"Careless Whisper" - [[George Michael]]
*"Till It Happens To You" - [[Corinne Bailey Rae]]
*"Spanish Sahara" - [[Foals]]
:Episode Four
*"Ghost symbol" - [[Zero 7]]
*"War" - [[Edwin Starr]]
*"Innocence" - [[Nero]]
*"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" - [[David Ruffin]]
*"Aloha los Pescadores" - [[Jack Nitzsche]]
*"Laser beam" - [[Low]]
*"Steal Drums (Rivva Starr Remix)" - DB40
*"Empty Vessels" - [[Phil Kieran]]
*"MmmBop" - [[Hanson]]
*"4th movement, 1st part" - [[Krazy Baldhead]]
*"Also Sprach Zarathrustra" - [[Eumir Deodato]]
*"Paradise Circus" - [[Massive Attack]]
:Episode Five
*"The Killing Moon" - [[Echo And The Bunnymen]]
*"Die By The Drop" - [[The Dead Weather]]
*"Small Time Shot Away" - [[Massive Attack]]
*"Creepin Up The Backstairs" - [[The Fratellis]]
*"Zoom Boom Zing" - [[The Cadillacs]]
*"Stay Up" - [[Evil Nine]]
*"Love Will Come" - [[Maps]]
*"Radiates" - Riton & Primary 1
*"The Law of Life" - [[Elite Force]]
*"Adagio for Strings" - [[Leonard Bernstein]]
:Episode Six
*"Some Enchanted Evening" - [[John Langley]]
*"The Hall of the Mountain King" from [[Peer Gynt]] - [[Edvard Grieg]]
*"Sabotage" - [[Beastie Boys]]
*"Morning" from [[Peer Gynt]] - [[Edvard Grieg]]
*"Flower duet" from [[Lakmé]] - [[Mady Mesple]] & Danielle Millet
*"I Don't Know What's Happened to the Kids Today" - [[Labi Siffre]]
:Christmas Special
*"Christmas Is Going To The Dogs" - [[Eels (band)|Eels]]
*"Is This Christmas?" - [[The Wombats]]
*"I Wish It Was Christmas Today" - [[Julian Casablancas]]
*"Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday" - [[The Sweet Inspirations]]
*"Santa Baby" - [[Eartha Kitt]]
*"Oh Happy Day" - [[The Edwin Hawkins Singers]]
*"Merry Christmas" - [[The Ramones]]
*"Stars" - [[Warpaint]]
*"Little Donkey" - the cast


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 04:30, 28 January 2011

Misfits
Genre
Created byHoward Overman
Starring
Opening theme"Echoes" by The Rapture
ComposerVince Pope
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageTransclusion error: {{En}} is only for use in File namespace. Use {{lang-en}} or {{in lang|en}} instead.
No. of series2
No. of episodes13 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Petra Fried
  • Murray Ferguson
ProducerKate Crowe
Production locationLondon
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time45 minutes
Production companyClerkenwell Films
Original release
NetworkE4
Release12 November 2009 (2009-11-12) –
present

Misfits is a British comedy-drama series about a group of young offenders forced to work in a community service programme, where they attain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The first series started broadcasting on 12 November 2009 on E4, and was produced by Clerkenwell Films. Series 1 & 2 will air in Australia in May 2011 on ABC2

Filming for the second series began on 24 May 2010, next to Southmere Lake, Thamesmead.[1] The second series aired from 11 November 2010 to 16 December 2010 on E4. A third series was officially confirmed.[2][3] A 60-minute Christmas special, written by Howard Overman, featuring the whole main cast of the first series was broadcast on E4 in December 2010.[4][5]

The series won the 2010 BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Series.[6]

Synopsis

Misfits follows five early-20s delinquents on community service in Wertham (a fictional borough in an unnamed city),[7] who are caught outside during a thunder storm and acquire special powers. Kelly (Lauren Socha) gains the ability to read the thoughts of others, Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) can rewind time when experiencing an immense sense of regret, Alisha (Antonia Thomas) sends people into a sexual frenzy when they touch her skin, and Simon (Iwan Rheon) can become invisible. Seemingly left unaffected is smart alec Nathan (Robert Sheehan), who, in the final episode of the first series, discovers he is immortal.

In the first episode, the Misfits kill their probation worker Tony, after the storm turns him insane, and he tries to kill them. The main plot of the first series is the five trying to stop anyone else finding out what they did. Tony's replacement Sally, is revealed to be Tony's fiancee, and she suspects that the gang know more than they are saying. Other sub-plots of the series involve Nathan being made homeless after his mum kicks him out, Alisha and Curtis becoming involved in a relationship, Curtis accidentally changing time so he never split up from his girlfriend and Simon's sense of loneliness and isolation. There are also side-plots that only last for one episode.

In the second series, as the gang are approaching the end of their community service, they are stalked by a mysterious masked man who assists them and is seemingly aware of events before they happen: Alisha discovers the identity of the masked man – a time-travelling future Simon – and she falls in love with him and learns she is to fall in love with the 'present' Simon. Future Simon both warns of an unspecified, upcoming crisis and shows that the superpowers will soon become public knowledge – which occurs in the sixth episode, only for that timeline to be erased (leaving what happens next unclear). Throughout the series, sub-plots include Nathan and Kelly's abortive attempt at a relationship, Curtis and Alisha breaking up, Simon slowly becoming more assertive and Curtis starting a relationship with a girl called Nikki who obtained her teleportation powers from a heart transplant.

Three months later, in the show's Christmas special, the Misfits give up their powers by selling them to a dealer with the ability to transfer powers from one person to another. Elliot, a disillusioned priest purchases several powers from the same dealer (including Alisha's and Nikki's), and uses them to pose as a reborn Jesus Christ. While the Misfits are celebrating the fact that they are free from their powers, a follower of "Jesus" holds up the bar where Curtis and Alisha are now working, robs them, and kills Nikki. The Misfits steal the money that the priest "Jesus" has gathered from his followers so they can purchase their powers back, accidentally killing him while doing so. The Misfits now have the option to buy any power they want, and the episode concludes with a flash of bright white light as Kelly is the first to undergo the process.

Cast

Episodes

Series One

The first series comprised six episodes, airing from 12 November to 17 December 2009 on E4.

While performing community service, five junior offenders get struck by lightning during a freak storm. The sixth offender is unaffected since he was in the bathroom. Time passes and the group begin to discover their powers: Alisha's power drives whoever touches her skin into a sexual frenzy, Kelly gains telepathy, Simon has the ability to become completely invisible, and Curtis can reverse time. Nathan is apparently unaffected, but is convinced that he must also have a power and spends most of the series trying to discover it.
Unfortunately, their probation officer (Tony) is also hit by the lightning, giving him a homicidal hatred of young offenders and causing him to violently murder the boy in the bathroom. The others use their powers to survive, and kill Tony in self-defense. The "misfits" accept how implausible their story sounds and decide to hide the bodies, burying them under a bridge. Soon afterwards, the city decides to build an Environmental Monitoring Center on the spot, leading the misfits to exhume the bodies to avoid discovery. They eventually hide the bodies in the foundations of the building.

The five misfits find out that others in the city have also developed powers in the storm. Alisha and Curtis embark on a relationship despite being unable to touch each other. Simon develops a crush on their new probation officer, who seduces him for information about her fiancée Tony, and is accidentally killed by Simon when she discovers the truth. In the last episode of series 1, Nathan falls off the roof and dies, but is shown waking up trapped in his coffin after the funeral, discovering that his power is immortality.

Series Two

The second series commenced filming in May 2010,[8] and aired on E4 from 11 November to 16 December. The first episode of Series 2 was available for download one week before airing on television. A mysterious hoodied man appears several times, helping the Misfits before his death. He is revealed to be Simon from the future. The events of the second series commence immediately after the end of series one, consisting of seven episodes including the Christmas special.[5]

Series Three

A third series has been announced.[9] Filming is expected to begin in May 2011.

Production

Filming locations

The show is filmed in South East London, mostly on location around the Southmere Lake in Thamesmead. This area can also be seen in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.[10] Other exterior shots were filmed on the Heygate Estate. Many interiors were filmed in sets built in the old Runnymede campus of Brunel University. The scenes under the flyover are in Boston Manor Park in Ealing, London. The bar in the second series was located in South Street, Brunel.

Marketing

The first series was accompanied by an online viral marketing campaign produced by Six to Start, on social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter. For example, in a British first, the characters Simon and Kelly tweeted during the initial transmission of each episode, with the content of the tweets provided by writers Sam Liefer and Ben Edwards, under the direction of lead writer Howard Overman and executive producer Petra Fried. These tweets and other website postings provided additional narrative material, and amongst other things did not ultimately reveal the identity of a key character who appeared only in episode six.[11][12] Additional strategic components included direct-to-YouTube video clips and an online game based on the show.[11]

Reception

Critical response

British reviews have been very positive. The Times gave it four out of five stars, calling it "a new union — salty British street humour with whizz-bang special effects" which should "keep E4's core audience happy".[13] An online review by The Guardian said that it was "confident enough to operate in its own universe and set up something new" and that it was aimed at showing us "real people" rather than the stereotype of the "ASBO teenager".[14] The Guardian's print reviewer was also enthusiastic, saying: "Misfits is indeed silly — sillier, even than it sounds — but it's also brilliant: sharp, funny, dark and, in places, quite chilling. Both the writing and the performances ensure that everything but the preposterous central premise remains entirely believable."[15] The Daily Telegraph drew special attention to Howard Overman's script which, it said, "sparkled from the off, introducing his posse of social outcasts as a bunch of total losers, but each one distinctively and memorably so."[16]

The Irish media have also been impressed with the show. The Evening Herald called the debut episode "dark, hilarious, exciting and beautifully produced". It went on to say that "the spark comes from Overman's razor-sharp script, yet a lot of the credit also has to go to the well-chosen young cast, who are uniformly superb."[17]

In Australia, the Boxcutters podcast was more laconic: "Misfits ... is filled with unattractive and very annoying characters and is essentially Skins meets Heroes. So why do we find it so strangely compelling?"[18]

Awards

Both the series and its writer Howard Overman were nominated for RTS Awards in March 2010.[19] The series won the 2010 BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Series.[6]

Television ratings

Series 1 [20]

Episode Air date Viewers Rank
E4 E4+1 Total E4 E4+1
One 12 November 2009 574,000 213,000 787,000 4 9
Two 19 November 2009 569,000 169,000 738,000 2 11
Three 26 November 2009 592,000 88,000 680,000 1 11
Four 3 December 2009 632,000 78,000 710,000 5 11
Five 10 December 2009 598,000 72,000 670,000 8 21
Six 17 December 2009 592,000 68,000 660,000 6 21

Series 2

Episode Air date Viewers Rank
E4 E4+1 Total E4 E4+1
One 11 November 2010 1,185,000 238,000 1,423,000 1 5
Two 18 November 2010 1,055,000 250,000 1,305,000 1 2
Three 25 November 2010 1,119,000 251,000 1,370,000 1 4
Four 2 December 2010 1,075,000 341,000 1,416,000 1 2
Five 9 December 2010 1,074,000 355,000 1,429,000 1 1
Six 16 December 2010 1,201,000 392,000 1,593,000 2 1
Christmas Special 19 December 2010 1,420,000 278,000 1,698,000 1 3

Music

Muisc used in the series includes:[21]

Opening Credits

Series 1

Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four
Episode Five
Episode Six

Series 2

Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four
Episode Five
Episode Six
Christmas Special

References

  1. ^ E4 announce the return of ‘Misfits’ Blogomatic3000, 28 May 2010
  2. ^ "Facebook - Misfits". 17 December 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
  3. ^ "Series 3 Hoorays". E4. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  4. ^ Wightman, Catriona (17 June 2010). "'Misfits' Christmas special to be made". Digital Spy. Retrieved 17 June 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ a b "Misfits: Christmas Special". Sky.com. News Corporation. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
  6. ^ a b "Television Awards Winners in 2010". BAFTA. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  7. ^ As well as the name of Wertham Community Centre, the newspaper Wertham Chronicle is seen at the start of episode 6 of the second series
  8. ^ "Misfits – Power Changes For Series Two". SFX. Future Publishing. 8 March 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
  9. ^ Balihar Khalsa (17 December, 2010). "Misfits to return for third series". Broadcast Now. EMAP. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "A Clockwork Orange film locations". movielocations.com. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
  11. ^ a b Dowell, Ben (28 October 2009). "E4's Misfits characters to post on Twitter". The Guardian. guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  12. ^ Emmerson, Keith (5 November 2009). "TV Preview: Misfits, E4". hecklerspray.com. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  13. ^ Teeman, Tim (13 November 2009). "The Restaurant; Wonderland; Misfits; Octomum: Me and My 14 Kids". TimesOnline. entertainment.timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  14. ^ Vine, Richard (13 November 2009). "Misfits: Series one, episode one". TV & Radio Blog. guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  15. ^ Dowling, Tim (13 November 2009). "Misfits and Wonderland: Seven Pups for Seven People". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  16. ^ O'Donovan, Gerard (12 November 2009). "Misfits, E4, review". The Daily Telegraph. telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  17. ^ Stacey, Pat (13 November 2009). "Ideal superheroes for the 21st century". Evening Herald. Dublin, Ireland: herald.ie. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  18. ^ Kinal, Josh (7 December 2009). "Ep 206: Misfits, The Prisoner, Lunch Disclosure". Boxcutters.
  19. ^ French, Dan (March 1, 2010). "'Inbetweeners', 'Misfits' land RTS nods". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
  20. ^ Weekly Top 10 Programmes. Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved on 18 June 2010.
  21. ^ Official Misfits website

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