Misfits
I know I cover a lot of British TV on this site, but what can I say, I dig what I dig. Here’s a strange little show I stumbled across when looking for something (anything!) interesting on Hulu Plus. (In Hulu’s defense, I might find the service more interesting if I didn’t also have cable. Maybe it’s time to cut the chord?)
Misfits follows a crew of, um, misfits, who are serving community service when they are caught up in an electrical storm and get special powers. Two of the five have fairly conventional powers (mind-reading and invisibility). One other has the comic-bookish ability to turn back time, which leads to inevitable paradoxes. Of the other two, the girl has the Rogue-ish ability to make anyone want to have sex with her just by coming into contact with them and the other takes the entire series to figure out his power.
It’s billed as a comedy/drama, but I’d say it skews a little more dramatic than similarly categorized shows on this side of the pond. Also, I can’t understand half of what Lauren Socha says (she plays Kelly, the telepath). All six episodes are currently available on Hulu Plus.
Cheers
In honor of Netflix Instant’s return from an unexpected outage, we bring you the first new Qworthy post in months!
Perhaps the best sitcom of all time, Cheers managed to overcome a contentious cast situation with Shelly Long and then didn’t skip a beat when she left after five season. She was, of course, replaced by Kirstie Alley as Rebecca Howe, and the show lasted another six seasons. They also had to replace one of my all-time favorite sitcom characters, Coach, when Nicholas Colasanto died in 1985.
At 11 seasons, you could be forgiven for not sitting through the entire run of the show, but it’s a great fallback when you can’t find something else to watch instead of cleaning the kitchen.
Cheers Seasons 1-11 on Netflix
