Review: Misfits 3.6

Rudy has some membership issues.

A much more comedic tone this week, despite a lot happening in all of the subplots. As this series is eight episodes long, this episode wasn't the usual finale, and really it didn't at all feel like one. Regardless, Misfits continued on its rampage of outrage and mischief.
     Rudy gets off with a girl and then admits that it's a one-night stand. She uses her power on him, but he walks away hunky dory. Kelly and Seth have been having a... prolific love life. The team have been chilling, as their probation worker is obviously dead. Curtis' power begins to malfunction. Simon discovers via short-term premonition (and then experience) that Rudy has been given an STD, one that will cause his penis to fall off. Simon and Curtis try to help Rudy remember which of the three girls he had that night gave him the disease, but their search isn't productive.
    They manage to find what they believe is the flat in question, but despite Rudy's offering of flowers the girl turns out to not be the girl; simply the flat in which he did the deed. Finding suspect pictures, they track down "Amy Goodwin". Curtis' power troubles continue. Seth wants to take Kelly to Morocco. Curtis discovers that the reason he keeps switching back to Melissa is that he/she's preggers. Rudy, thinking he's found Ms. Goodwin, accidentally flashes a ten year old. Upon speaking with her, it's still the wrong woman - she's a lesbian. Curtis works out that he's probably the father of his own baby.

At least you're not Govenor of California

     On their way to find the last of the three girls, Rudy is cornered by a Policeman for indecent exposure. Getting the wrong end of the stick, Seth finds the positive pregnancy test and believes that Kelly is preggers, and that's why she doesn't want to go to Morocco. Soon after, Curtis becomes Melissa permanently. In police custody, Frudy berates Rudy for his macho attitude. Seth confronts Kelly and is reassured of her non-pregnancy, and is then told via phone that one of his associates has found the thing he's been looking for. They track the girl towards a nightclub. Seth gets what he wants - an unknown power from an old man.
     Rudy finds the girl and it's AMY MANSON!!!! I'm a fan. He gives a heartfelt apology over the club kareoke and Manson (Leia) eventually forgives him. Seth is mourning his dead girlfriend again. Curtis goes to Seth and asks him to take the power away to try and fix his condition. In return, Seth requests that Curtis use the power he's just collected to revive Seth's dead girlfriend..
    I found myself very apathetic about Kelly and Seth this week, as their storyline climaxed last week and kept butting in on this week's main plot. It was all well and good last forthnight, but this week's more humour-focused ramblings made it stick out a little. The main plot wasn't all that perfect either, and it certainly pales in comparison to this time last year. While 2.6 was a piece of shit on a high scale, it was still exciting and something that we'd been waiting for for a series. Where is the Superhoodie Storyline? Where is anything that we were promised in Series Two? I've certainly enjoyed this series, but the different, mundane powers just make this a lot less interesting.

"Outcasts"? No idea what you're on about.

     I think it's also notable that this is Misfits' first eight-part series, and like Being Human the series definitely feels much more lax without the stress of just two fewer hours. Overall, less has happened with any meaning ful scale. Again, in 2.6 the team were vaulted to international fame and power. Here, Rudy hunts around the estate for a girl he shagged and Curtis impregnates himself. Even the latter doesn't last for very long; I was hoping for a storyline that lasted over the remaining week, helping Curtis to grow as a character and complete the arc he began in 3.2. I suppose what I'm saying is that Misfits has lost its grandeur. Its pizazz. And without that to spark up its storyline, what has it got?
     Funny. But fluffy.

Thanks.

P.S. I really, really, really, really, really, really, hope that Amy Manson is a recurring character.
NEXT WEEK: Curtis revives a wonderous irish actress (Charlene McKenna in something else!) , and starts a zombie apocalypse.