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Five Thoughts About Misfits 3.2

Published Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:09:22 -0600

Last updated Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:02:18 -0600

The second episode of the third series of Misfits. And still they won't give episodes individual chapter names. Let's steal one from another show, The Year Of The Sex Olympics.

1. A Week Is A Long Time In Sexual Politics

We caught a glimpse last week but now it's gender bending all over the place with Curtis and his training partner/new girlfriend. The superhero secret identity has short shrift here, but it's found a new home in Curtis, and his two identities. And even someone with a superpower can discover how bad they are in bed. A unique chance to make themselves better. And then an equally unique chance to make them so much worse. The gender politics are all over the place and it's brilliant. Science fiction/fantasy at its very best. One very convenient bisexual. And a really easy way to avoid expensive CG morphing techniques too.

2. Benching The Star

After last week's Rudy focus, it feels a shame for actor Nathan Stewart-Jarrett that this week's focus on Curtis sees him playing him relataively so little. I say, relatively, you do get a fulkl screen close up on his cock. But his character is the star but the actor is not. But you don't miss it as Kehinde Fadipe, playing the female Curtis, also does such a bang up job of playing… Curtis. His restrained mannerisms, his pauses in speech, the way he juts his jaw forward, even the way he blinks and pulls his head back in shock, all there. But I'm betting Stewart-Jarett didn't have any problems in not being licked off by Rudy on the bench outside the dance. Considering how odd this episode, at no point does it feel… awkward. And the way she slams those high heels down… she's definitely the sixth Misfit.

3. Power Fantasies

Unless that's the Power Broker. We also caught a glimpse of his flirtation and reliance with Kelly last week. But this looks like something with legs through the series. Oh, and Kelly finds some small use for being a fucking rocket scientist. NOt enough guys. She's a fucking rocket scientist, she has to build a fucking rocket, okay?

4. Mr Inconsistent

Rudy flips from sensitive to crass to puking down the back of someone's dress, in a second. Even when he is not split into two bodies, he is still a divided man. But, Nathan-replacement that he is, he can be relied to lower the bar simply by his presence.

5. Save The Runner, Save The World

This did possibly the strangest cases of the Last Of The Samurai/Dances With Wolves/Avatar trope I've ever seen. The Man Who Is Now A Woman In Order To Run Again, Saving Women By Becoming A Man Again And Doing Some Running. Maybe it needs a trope of its own.

Next week? Simon.

Note: We got an ad break with Doritors Jalapeno Fire and Pepsi Max Citrus freeze, portrayed as super powered individuals in a Misfits fashion, one blowing up aerosol cans, the other freezing his cock off – very weird.

Brendon's Update: And here's the ad now, for your enjoyment.