Misfits: Series 1-5 [DVD]

Misfits: Series 1-5 on DVD : This 12 DVD set has all the episodes of Channel 4's critically acclaimed urban SciFi show 'Misfits'. Season one started screening in November 2009 and season 5 concluded with the final episode in December 2013. This British comedy-drama television show follows five young minor offenders sentenced to work in community service who suddenly appear to develop superpowers after a strange electrical storm. Being teenagers with 'issues', dealing with their new random superpowers doesn't always go exactly to plan, so predictably their swearing soon gets a lot worse (it is a comedy-drama show though, albeit with dark humour). The series was filmed in South East London, mostly on location around the Southmere Lake & community centre in Thamesmead. Misfits is often compared to  Skins Series 1-7 [DVD ], more for the fact that both shows are classy, gritty & original fun TV programs that deservedly reached older audiences outside the target young adults age group, rather than for similarities in plot. I got this set for my teenage daughters 19th birthday, and we both enjoyed watching the series together. Misfits is a surprisingly powerful drama, being moving, funny, & disturbing and often all at the same time.The twelve DVD set has English audio only (in Dolby stereo) with HoH English subtitles (no other languages). The TV aspect is 16:9 widescreen, and the disks are PAL UK Region 2 locked (although you can often view region locked DVDs on a PC DVD drive anywhere using videolan.org's freebie open-source & multi-region 'VLC Media Player' software player). Total run time for all 37 episodes is 28 hours 24 minutes. Plus there's another 5 hours 15 minutes of extras ranging from 'behind the scenes' for every season, to mini-documentaries such as: 'The making off', 'casting', 'working with puppets', and the gag reels. There's also the hi-res  Misfits Series 1-5 Blu-ray  UK region B set available. The TV show is rated age 18+, for violence, swearing, sex scenes & occasional drug use, although for seasons 3 & 5 the rating drops to 15+. The set's cardboard outer sleeve is quite flimsy, but the five plastic DVD cases within it are fairly solid with 2xDVDs in season 1, 2, & 5, and 3xDVDs in seasons 3 & 4. The Christmas Special and the two 10 minute shorts 'Vagas Baby' and 'Erazer' are included. We thought this DVD set was good value at the £40 we paid.Many consider Misfits season 4 to be the weakest in terms of story-lines, but then the other seasons do set high standards. Both the Misfits series and its writer Howard Overman were nominated for RTS Awards in March 2010. The series won the 2010 BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Series, and Lauren Socha also took home the "Best Supporting Actress" BAFTA for her part as Kelly. The show was nominated for "Best Comedy Drama" at the British Comedy Awards in 2011, but lost to Psychoville, although it did pick up the 2011 RTS award for digital effects. So all agree, Misfits is great TV. Another excellent 'young adults' TV series to check out is the BBC series  Being Human - Series 1-5 Boxset [DVD ] - werewolves, vampires, and a ghost all 'living' as mates in a house-share, and is rated age 15+.

Boxset containing seasons 1 to 5 of this teen gang type show. Never seen Misfits when it was first shown on telly so I decided to buy the set on dvd. I was blown away by how funny, clever and well-made this series was (up to a point that is!). The totally outrageous and highly charismatic Nathan Young (played by Rob Sheehan) was the best thing in the show, shining bright only because of the rest of the excellent cast of hapless characters (who are basically superheroes without much of the hero part). The introduction of Rudy Wade (played by Joseph Gilgun) in the third season was probably to replace the Nathan character who unfortunately left at the end of season two. This is when the show went downhill for me. I couldn't stand the Rudy character who was about as funny and appealing as Jimmy Savile touching kids. A couple of episodes in, when I saw that they weren't going to kill off this fetid creature, I stopped watching the show. I have better things to watch than that creep for three seasons. The bonus features are quite numerous, enjoyable and insightful about the making of the show and casting of the main characters.

I arrived at the party 11 years late for this show.Watching for the 1st time in 2020.Always been on my radar and binged watched it on Netflix as soon as it was available.Series 1-2 are definitely the funniest and the best due to Nathan.But Series 3, 4 & 5 are also good in their own way. Rudy gets better and better as the series progress.Thought it was so good I decided to purchase the Blu-ray boxset to re-watch and also get access to the behind the scenes extras and the Vegas Baby mini-episode branching series 2-3.Only daft issue was my box set contained 2 copies of series 3 and no series 4!Returned for a replacement. No idea how this can happen...

Good for passing the time if nowt on telly then it became interesting

I remember when this first started on E4 back in 2009. This was a series Britain should be proud of, it had me in stitches all the way through. Nathan and Kelly were just the best characters, and I was so upset when Kelly came out of it I think after the third season. If you haven't watched these then you should add to your watch list. Great programme that I highly recommend.

BAD LANGUAGE ALERT!If you've never seen this, then you've been missing out. This is an amazing production, brilliantly written and acted, with typically british humour.The series follows a group of young men and women on community service after commiting petty offenses.Imagine an event that affects every person it touches, but in different ways, and suddenly they have superpowers! The only trouble is is that these superpowers,in general, are either completely random, totally uncontrollable or downright dangerous, Hence, mayhem ensues. The body count is high and the bad language is ever present, however you'll laugh out loud as often as you'll be shocked into silence!Not since BSG have i been so hooked on a sci-fi series. Great stuff.

I think the blu ray misfits boxset is awesome, a great series that you can watch over and over and never get bored and I really enjoy the mini episodes and the extras well worth a watch

Great series, shame the box set was all in individual DVDs per series. I was hoping for something a bit more compact. Overall though. Delivered quickly and great show.