Misfits S2 - up to episode 6 (saw up to 6, haven't seen 6 yet)

[shadowkat]

Made it up to episode 6 of S2 Misfits - and whoa, it does get really good in the second season.
What hits me is how sexually risque it is and it appears to be on broadcast tv in the UK. I mention this, because in the US - Skins has run into all sorts of problems. Two advertisers have pulled out already. And the PTC - Parents Television Council (a watchdog group) has asked for an investigation into whether Skins distribution violates child pornography laws. (I'm guessing they haven't seen the UK version? Neither have I - but I did see previews and heard about it. Skins is too young to grab my interest.)


Enjoyed the time travel bit - it actually worked. Often it doesn't. Here - it manages to further all the characters arcs forward and tease the audience as to what lies ahead, as well as provide a really good reason for the time travel. Possibly the best use of time travel I've seen in a tv show in quite some time. Time travel is difficult to pull off well.

And I beg to differ with Nathan, having seen Simon unclothed, he is definitely more attractive. Sorry, Nathan, but you are scrawny.

The Bruno/Kelly bit was a little confusing. So was Bruno a gorilla who turned human because of the storm or a human who turned into a gorilla because of it? Had a rather King Kong feel to it or Mighty Joe Young. I don't think Bruno attempted to rape Kelly - that was not rape. There was no intent.
It was violent sex that got out of hand and she told him to stop, he did, end of story. No rape.
While I guess it is possible to accidentally rape someone...it tends to be an intentional crime.
At any rate - I think they did it - to depict the gorilla aspect of Bruno's persona. Actually, the guy who did "rape" Kelly was the tatoo artist who intentionally made her love him and took advantage of her in that state.

Rather enjoy the metaphors - the whole video game episode was ingenious and creepy. That has got to be the scariest villain that I've seen on a tv show in quite some time. He was the video game and there was no reasoning with him. Or stopping him. You had to play his game. And the violence of video games was depicted beautifully. Was quite impressed by that episode - haven't seen anyone do anything quite like that before.

Now if only the US's superhero shows were quite this innovative in their writing and risky...but, no.
No Ordinary Family piles on the cliches, as does The Cape (which is dead in the water). Smallville is the most innovative and risky of the bunch and that is saying something.

Comments

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Glad you're enjoying S2, it really takes the show up a notch. The first season is already lots fun, but in the second they have a better long term arc and some pretty interesting individual ideas.

I also thought the video game guy was super creepy, they are pretty good with scary villains.

The sex on Misfits just makes me happy. I love how messy and real it looks and how it breaks with that body fascist ground rule of tv-sex that you only show thin unrealistically attractive people having graphic (superaesthetic) sex.

I gave the cape a try too and I'll never get that hour of my live back. I wonder who would greenlight such a show. Aren't people aware that you need a certain degree of innovation to make a scripted show successful?

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

The Cape had potential - with the carnival story-thread and should have focused more on that, but fell into cliche with the whole ex-cop turns vigilante to clear his name (which Kickass made fun of.).

At any rate - it didn't hold my interest at all - so not surprised it got canceled out of the box.

American Television has a lot of these types of shows unfortunately.

Agree regarding the sex on Misfits - it's nice and messy and the body types on Misfits are more realistic (as opposed to Vampire Diaries where everybody looks like they came out of the same modeling agency.). I loved the bad sex scene between Kelly and Nathan. Kelly fascinates me and may well be my favorite female character. While Simon is growing on me. They don't appear to know what to do with Curtis. Although Curtis' new girl-friend is a lot of fun - I rather like her and I love her power. That's the power I'd want teleportation. Although apparently her's only works if she is thinking of someone that she feels strongly about or is connected to. The way they play with supernatural powers in this show is rather detailed and intriguing. It's a very well-written and directed series. Not sure why no one over here has grabbed distribution rights - you'd think BBC America or Syfy would be snatching it up? Of course, I'm still trying to wrap my head around why Syfy didn't just try to out-bid BBC America for the rights to Being Human as opposed to wasting a ton of money remaking it. I couldn't make it through the first episode of the US version of Being Human.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

No, Bruno was definitely supposed to be a gorilla who got the ability to turn human.

I still think that part of the time-travel plot this year was because no-one expected Iwan Rheon to be the breakout actor last year, so they were setting up a way to write him out if he got a better offer.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Is Iwan Rheon - Simon? And right now he really is the most interesting, particularly with the time travel plot.