The third episode of ‘Misfits’ series 3 was broadcast last Sunday night. I rushed home to catch it on E4+1 after the pub quiz (we came fourth, not best pleased) and this is what I made of it. FYI I’ll try and keep it as spoiler free as possible.
Continuing with the character focused episodes theme of the series so far, we have a Simon centric instalment. Simon stops the mugging of, Comic Book Fan, Peter. Peter becomes infatuated with Simon and believes he is a Superhero, then Simon begins behaving very strangely which makes Alisha suspicious.
You know I said last time that I like light and shade? Well there’s some serious light and shade in this episode. It’s quite dark (not as bad as last week, definitely less ‘rapey’) but thankfully the episode is punctuated with moments of levity, Rudy and his clone’s incident with the Community support officer is highly amusing but then the scenes with Peter and Simon are very unnerving, increasingly so as the episode progresses.
I think this is an inevitable shift in tone that will affect the whole series. Simon has stepped up to be the main character of the show and the nature of his character dictates that instead of the jovial Nathan leading a largely comedic series, it becomes more steepened in its own, more serious, Simon lead, mythology.
We really get to explore the relationship between Alisha and Simon in this episode which is nice. Theirs is definitely the biggest character shift since the show began. No one could have seen where those characters were heading after the first showing of episode one. They’re so tender with each other it’s just adorable. Thomas and Rheon seem very comfortable together and that absolutely comes across on screen.
The subplot of Kelly and Seth developed nicely. I like that Kelly has a new love interest after her relationship with Nathan didn’t come to fruition. Plus Seth is so cute! I like learning what the characters powers are because it tells you something about them, like Simon being invisible because no one really saw him and Curtis being able to rewind time because he regrets his drugs mishap. I couldn’t work out why Seth had his power; he can pass powers from one person to the next but can’t use them himself. It all fell into place when Seth confessed to Kelly that before the storm he was a drugs dealer that got his girlfriend hooked on drugs and she died of an overdose. I like where their relationship is going, he seems to be a man with demons and I think Kelly could be the girl to save him in her own gobby way :-)
Unfortunately after his great first episode Rudy is relegated to light relief which is a shame because I like his character. The same fate befalls Curtis too in this episode. There’s not a great demand for anyone to change gender at will in this episode.
The episode is more comic book inflected than any of the previous episodes and I do wonder why they left it till now. The style suits it SO WELL! I like the fact they actually come out and use the word ‘Superhero’, they’ve hinted at it before but it’s more blatantly obvious that this is where the show is heading.
So I thought it was a very strong episode. Full of tension with some good comedic nods and lashings and lashing of Simon :-)
Now I fancy some…
Reasons to be Cheerful :-)
1. FirstTrailer for Pixar’s next outing ‘Brave’ is out! I think it looks really good! It seems to be in the same vein of DreamWorks’s excellent ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ but obviously it’ll have its own Pixar identity and I’m super excited to see it :-)
2. ‘Fresh Meat’has been given another series! Yay! ‘Fresh Meat’ is the story of 6 University Students living in a Student house after failing to get into Halls. It’s been a quietly brilliant, hilarious series with excellent performances from the ensemble cast. It’s hard to pick out a favourite because they’ve all been brilliant. Zawe Ashton, Greg McHugh, Joe Thomas, Kimberley Nixon, Charlotte Ritchie and Jack Whitehall make up the main characters but I must give praise to Adam Gillen who plays the supporting role of Howard’s friend/enemy/stalker Brian, he is hilarious. I’ve been loving it! Catch up on the series on 4OD.
3. The first trailer for ‘The Hunger Games’ has been released. I still haven’t got round to reading the books but it looks good :-) I’ve said before, I love a dystopian future movie and I’ve got a massive crush on Luke Hemsworth so I’m sold!
4. ‘My Transsexual Summer’ was on last night! I caught up with the first episode on Saturday on 4OD and totally loved it. I find it a bit odd that the concept of gender identity is still taboo in the public consciousness and I’m glad that shows like this exist to encourage discussion about it. Yes, some of the documentary has been done before; showing the stresses of coming out to family and friends, the reaction of strangers, the obligatory surgery scenes and those aspects of the show are very important but what I like is how it makes you think about what it means to be a man or a woman and the difference between sex and gender. ‘My Transsexual Summer’ is on Tuesdays at 10 o’clock on Channel 4 and you can catch the first two episodes on 4OD.
5. Justin Timberlake has accompanied a US Marine to the Marine Corp Ball! All together now… AWWWWW! Not only is he super cute, a great singer and a good actor he's a nice guy too!!!
6. Have some Muppets parody posters! 85 days to go!
That’s all for today!
Goodbye till next time :-)
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P.S I said the other week I was quite interested in seeing the new Tarsem Singh Snow White film... well the trailer's been released and after seeing it I'd like to retract that statement...
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