kalmyrrh wrote:
Just watched the first couple of episodes of Misfits. Yeah, it's pretty good isn't it!
I thought there was a sequence in Episode 2 that managed to go from sexy, to outrageous humour, to wonderfully done tragedy in the space of 5 minutes.
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Where your man picks up the well-sexy lass at the Community Centre, they go back to hers to shag, he comes in 10 seconds, then they get it on again, there's BOOBIES and everything, and then the reveal comes that she has a power that can make her look young and he's actually knobbing an OAP - 'If you think my come face is funny you should see yours!' - he's repulsed and runs away. (Clues were given, 'I live her with my gran, she's out at the moment', them taking the stairlift upstairs, and the whole place being 'old' with nothing to suggest a young person lives there.)
Then the next day at the Community Centre he sees the 'old' her coming towards him, probably just wanting to talk, and I was thinking 'Awww he'll give her a cuddle or something' but no, he just can't face her and runs away again, and there's the look of total and absolute devastation on her face. And then of course later on in the episode she dies and there's a stunning moment of genuine sentimentality that never threatens for a split-second to be mawkish.
The pathos of the whole little sub-plot was absolutely pitch-perfect, which is no mean feat (witness how most telly/films completely fuck it up).
I love the way it manages to be amazingly funny, dark, sexy, challenging, tragic, uplifting, thrilling and exciting (add other superlatives as you see fit) - pretty much every episode.
We really should be thankful for British telly, when we're at our best no one in the world can come close.