The essential episodes of Misfits
Watch these 25 in order and you've got Misfits — each pick states its reason.
- 01
A group of misfits with nothing in common must perform community service, but get caught in a freak storm that gives them superpowers.
- 02
Nathan is desperate to move back home, and when the group makes a discovery, he soon realizes he might have found his opportunity.
- 03
Alisha is having fun using and abusing her powers but she can't seem to get the one man she really wants: Curtis.
- 04
Curtis regrets the night of his arrest and uses his new power to travel back in time to change history, but it's not as easy as he thought.
- 05
Determined to prove that the gang was involved in Tony's disappearance, Sally focuses her investigation on Simon.
- 06
The gang realizes that there's something weird going on in town and it looks like the mysterious, straightlaced "Virtue" organization is behind it.
- 07
A new probation officer assigns the group to an art class for the mentally ill. A mysterious hooded figure follows the Misfits for unknown reasons.
- 08
Nathan is shocked when Jamie, a long-lost brother he never knew he had, turns up at the community center.
- 09
The masked man saves Alisha from a mugging on the estate. It appears he is able to touch her without being affected by her powers.
- 10
Ollie, an environmental protester who has the power to teleport, starts his community service. But is he really destined to become part of the gang?
- 11
Nathan is violently killed again, and he suspects that Jessica, a charity worker from the community center, is to blame.
- 12
After their superpowers are exposed to the world at large, the gang becomes celebrity superheroes, known as the ASBO Five.
- 13
Just before Christmas, the gang meets Seth, a drug dealer who was also struck in the storm and now has the ability to deal powers.
- 14
New boy Rudy gets a rude awakening in his first few days of community service.
- 15
Curtis decides to use his new gender-swap power so that he can return to athletics.
- 16
Simon saves Peter, a geeky comic book nerd, from being mugged.
- 17
An old Jewish man plans to use Curtis's power to go back in time and kill Hitler.
- 18
The gang battles an army of zombie cheerleaders when Seth resurrects his dead girlfriend.
- 19
New members Finn and Jess are zipping up for their first day of community service, but things get strange when a man stumbles in with a briefcase.
- 20
Rudy and his downbeat doppelganger are forced to unite as they have to confront a long-forgotten face from their shared past.
- 21
The gang goes to a party where they are stalked by a mysterious killer rabbit. While tracking it down, Rudy falls head over heels for the first time.
- 22
The gang encounter Helen, an electrician who has a power that may explain the predictions of the mysterious knitted jumper.
- 23
To help him get over Jess, Rudy takes Finn to the superpower support group, where a girl becomes infatuated with him.
- 24
As the first anniversary of the storm approaches, the gang tries to celebrate. Alex discovers an unexpected side effect of his power.
- 25
The gang's community service is over and they are forced to face the future, while Dark Rudy finds that his new group isn't quite what he expected.
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