Misfits (TV series)

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Misfits is a British black comedy-drama series about a group of young offenders forced to work in a community service programme, where they attain preternatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The first series started broadcasting on 12 November 2009 on E4 and the finale aired on 11 December 2013, and was produced by Clerkenwell Films.

About Misfits (TV series)

• More important than any message for me was the question of how you handle being a superhero when society is already looking down on you. That's the experience of a young offender. It's also about having the responsibility of greater powers; my characters don't always use it for the greater good. That's where the fun starts.

Take the dynamic on Buffy, for example, when Faith, the bad slayer, turned up. Buffy saw her superpowers as a burden but for Faith it was just a riot – she wanted to raise hell and why wouldn't she? If power corrupts, what does superpower do? That's what I wanted to explore.

Being a teenager is such a challenging time that it instantly throws up conflict. Every emotion is heightened, everything is life-and-death important. That's drama. It's also that time when you're not burdened by jobs, mortgages and kids and we look back on it with some fondness. You remember it so vividly.

• I guess that's why I never felt it was an impossible challenge to get into the mind of a teenager. I'm 36 now but I'm pretty certain falling in love at 16 is the same as it was 20 years ago
• I never wanted it to be a group of teenagers who were pally from the very start. I hate that convention in teen drama where they meet and instantly become high-fiving friends for no apparent reason. I felt I had to really work for that as a writer and earn the right for them to have a relationship. It's a gradual process; it has to feel organic. When one of the characters gets in trouble in episode two, they don't immediately say, "Yes, let us help you, now we are the Fantastic Four we must work together to fight crime!" It can't work like that.

• Howard Overman [1]

Cast

• Iwan Rheon as Simon Bellamy
• Robert Sheehan as Nathan Young
• Lauren Socha as Kelly Bailey
• Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Curtis Donovan
• Antonia Thomas as Alisha Daniels
• Matthew McNulty as Seth
• Joseph Gilgun as Rudy Wade
• Karla Crome as Jess
• Nathan McMullen as Finn
• Matt Stokoe as Alex
• Natasha O'Keeffe as Abbey

External links

• Misfits (TV series) quotes at the Internet Movie Database