The BEST episodes of Misfits

Every episode of Misfits ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Misfits!

A group of teenagers are sentenced to community service for past mistakes only to find their lives changed after a storm gives them strange new powers and new problems to overcome.

Last Updated: 9/12/2024Network: E4Status: Ended
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Episode Six
star
8.31
2914 votes

#1 - Episode Six

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/17/2009

When someone is clearly influencing local teenagers and changing their behavior, the gang investigates. The trace leads to an organisation called Virtue and it's up to powerless Nathan to save them all.

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Episode Six
star
8.14
2648 votes

#2 - Episode Six

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/16/2010

After the existence of super-powers is exposed to the world at large, the gang become celebrity super-heroes, known as the 'ASBO Five''. There is serious money to be made, as long as the gang can manage to handle their fame. But, as they settle in at a luxury hotel, they find their renown has made them the target of a sinister killer, who has the most bizarre power yet encountered.

Directors: Owen Harris
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Christmas Special
star
8.04
2795 votes

#3 - Christmas Special

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/19/2010

Just before Christmas, the gang meets Seth, a drug dealer who is able to deal powers after being struck in the storm.

Directors: Tom Harper
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Episode One
star
8.02
3255 votes

#4 - Episode One

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/11/2010

The group realise that Nathan is still alive. The friends run into a psychiatric patient, who used to be obsessed with Simon, and find out that she is using her strange powers to exact revenge after he snubbed her in public.

Directors: Tom Green
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Episode Five
star
8.01
2781 votes

#5 - Episode Five

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/9/2010

Nathan is violently killed again and he suspects that Jessica, a charity worker from the community center, is to blame. To make matters worse, Jessica seems to have targeted Simon as her next victim so the gang decide to track her down before she can strike again. Kelly meets Bruno who is on the run from the police. She hears his thoughts and he thinks she's beautiful. Has Kelly finally found her perfect man, or is there more to Bruno than meets the eye?

Directors: Tom Green
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Episode Eight
star
7.97
1944 votes

#6 - Episode Eight

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/18/2011

A fake medium with a superpower brings faces from the young offenders' past back to life, including Tony and Sally, the probation workers they killed. The gang soon realises the resurrected corpses have returned to the land of the living with dangerous motives in mind – but then face another threat when Simon senses his destiny as Superhoodie is fast approaching.

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Episode One
star
7.95
1155 votes

#7 - Episode One

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/2013

It's the first anniversary of the storm and handsome barman Alex discovers that he has acquired a strange new superpower that he has to use on one of the gang. Meanwhile, Rudy's downbeat alter ego joins a mysterious new support group deep in the heart of the estate.

Directors: William McGregor
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Episode Six
star
7.94
1039 votes

#8 - Episode Six

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/2/2012

The gang spend a long night at a wild house party where they are stalked by a mysterious killer rabbit. While tracking it down, Rudy meets the enigmatic Nadine and finds himself head over heels for the first time in his life. By the time the night has drawn to a close, Alex has finally revealed to Jess the secret he has been trying to hide - but will their relationship survive his shock revelation?

Writer: Jon Brown
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Episode Four
star
7.94
3136 votes

#9 - Episode Four

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/2/2010

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? Out on the estate the gang are confronted by super-aggressive Tim who demands money at gunpoint. The gang find themselves needing the help of the mysterious man in the mask. Meanwhile Nikki, the girl from Curtis's flash forward vision, has a heart-transplant which gives rise to some unexpected side-effects...

Directors: Tom Green
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Episode Three
star
7.94
3078 votes

#10 - Episode Three

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/2010

The mysterious masked man ends up saving Alisha when she is mugged on the estate. She becomes intrigued when he is not affected by her powers. Nathan, Kelly and Simon go to a tattoo parlour in which Nathan manages to offend the tattooist. Nathan ends up acting oddly after they leave.

Directors: Tom Green
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Episode Seven
star
7.92
1972 votes

#11 - Episode Seven

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/11/2011

When Seth finds a resurrection super power he uses it to bring his dead ex-girlfriend, Shannon back to life. But it's not long before he realises that the new power has unexpected consequences when Shannon develops a taste for blood. Seth is torn between his love for Kelly and the guilt he feels over Shannon's death, as the gang battle an army of zombie cheerleaders.

Directors: Will Sinclair
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Episode Four
star
7.90
1202 votes

#12 - Episode Four

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/2012

When Curtis's new girlfriend Lola disappears, Curtis discovers that she was never the person she claimed to be. As he investigates further, he is forced to use his power to bring someone back from the dead, with disastrous results. Meanwhile, Rudy and Finn have a disagreement about their shared living arrangements at the community centre, and Jess finally gets closer to mysterious barman Alex.

Directors: Nirpal Bhogal
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Episode Two
star
7.86
3172 votes

#13 - Episode Two

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/18/2010

Nathan is shocked (and half naked) when Jamie, a long-lost brother he never knew he had, turns up at the community centre. They have something in common – neither gets on with their dad, Mike. Nathan takes his little bro under his wing – they go for a pint and meet a fit girl with an amazing power of her own. Everyone heads out for a massive night in a club where things start to get a little crazy. Luckily that guy in the mask is still watching over our pretty young things.

Directors: Tom Green
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Episode Four
star
7.86
978 votes

#14 - Episode Four

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/13/2013

Since attending the superpower support group, Rudy's alter ego Rudy Two has become more of his own person. And while the gang are out on community service they come across a bumbling old man who turns out to be more than he seems. They also encounter Helen, an electrician with a power that might just hold the key to understanding the 'mysterious knitted jumper'.

Directors: Lawrence Gough
Writer: Jon Brown
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Episode Five
star
7.86
2927 votes

#15 - Episode Five

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/10/2009

The gang's probation worker Sally pursues her strategy to connect with Simon to find out what happened to Tony. In the meantime, Nathan develops caring feelings for a baby he finds at the Community Centre.

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Episode Six
star
7.85
958 votes

#16 - Episode Six

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/27/2013

As part of their community service, the gang have to look after a group of terminally ill patients. However, one of the patients seems intent on cheating death. A mysterious gypsy casts a spell on Alex after he refuses to help a damsel in distress, and Rudy's alter ego takes another step closer to finding the missing superhero depicted on the woolly jumper.

Directors: Lewis Arnold
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Episode Two
star
7.84
3198 votes

#17 - Episode Two

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/19/2009

Much to their annoyance, the gang have to help out at an OAP's tea-dance as part of their community service. But things look up for Nathan when he befriends a beautiful young volunteer. It soon becomes clear that others have been affected by the storm as Nathan stumbles across his mum's boyfriend acting in a very strange way. And to complicate matters further, the gang realise that somebody knows about the killing of their probation worker.

Directors: Tom Green
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Episode Eight
star
7.82
967 votes

#18 - Episode Eight

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/11/2013

The gang learn that their community service is over and they start to think about life away from the orange jumpsuits. Still upset at the way Rudy treated her, Jess looks for comfort elsewhere but she soon finds out that her companion has a terrifying power that threatens her own life. Rudy's alter ego finds out that Helen, Karen and Sam aren't quite the superheroes he thought they were.

Directors: Wayne Yip
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Episode Seven
star
7.81
1033 votes

#19 - Episode Seven

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/9/2012

Alex sets off on a mission to try to recover what's missing in his life, but Jess is worried about the extreme lengths he might go to. Meanwhile, a mysterious girl called Abby arrives at the community centre. She pretends to be on community service, but ends up with an unexpected gift when she discovers that the community centre is the super-power magnet of the universe.

Directors: Dusan Lazarevic
Writer: Jon Brown
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Episode Seven
star
7.80
975 votes

#20 - Episode Seven

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/4/2013

With the first anniversary of the storm coming closer, Rudy's alter ego and Abby organise a celebratory party at the community centre. Alex meets Sarah, who has a mysterious power that is making her life a misery.

Directors: Lewis Arnold
Writer: Jon Brown
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Episode One
star
7.80
3934 votes

#21 - Episode One

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/12/2009

Nathan, Kelly, Curtis, Alisha and Simon are a group of misfits. They have nothing in common except the 'Community Payback' scheme they’ve been lumbered with at their local community centre, following varying crimes and misdemeanours. When the group get caught in a freak storm on day 1, their lives are changed forever. Everyone except Nathan discovers they have super powers, and events quickly unravel in the weirdest of ways, until the group are landed with a secret that inexplicably bonds them together, whether they like it or not.

Directors: Tom Green
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Episode Two
star
7.77
1155 votes

#22 - Episode Two

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/30/2013

While the gang are out on the estate picking up litter, Rudy discovers that his dad is having an affair. With some help from Jess, Rudy investigates further and finds out his dad has a superpower of his own, a dark secret he has kept hidden from his family. As Rudy and Jess find themselves thrown together, Rudy is shocked to discover he has feelings for her. Meanwhile at the superpower support group, Rudy Two meets a mysterious boy with the power to fly and he starts to believe that the jumper Maggie knitted him really does hold the secrets to the gang's future.

Directors: William McGregor
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Episode Three
star
7.75
1094 votes

#23 - Episode Three

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/6/2013

Abby is convinced she has finally met her soulmate in Laura until childhood memories return to haunt her, unleashing a terrifying force. Finn is in an awkward position when it becomes clear that Greg, the probation worker, has a crush on him. And, searching for the mysterious superhero on his woolly jumper, Rudy's alter-ego meets Sam.

Directors: William McGregor
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Episode Six
star
7.74
1977 votes

#24 - Episode Six

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/2011

After a drunken one-night-stand with a mysterious girl Rudy discovers that he has a strange superpower STD. With only 24 hours to undo the curse Rudy enlists Simon to help him find the girl. Meanwhile something weird is happening with Curtis' gender-swap power. And Seth finally finds the superpower that he's been searching for.

Writer: Jon Brown
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Episode Five
star
7.72
2232 votes

#25 - Episode Five

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/27/2011

While doing community service at the local hospital, Kelly gets trapped in the body of Jen, a coma victim. Jen, walking around in Kelly's body, escapes from the hospital leaving the real Kelly trapped in a coma. When the gang discover what's going on they hatch a plan to steal Kelly back from the hospital before her life-support machine is switched off.

Directors: Will Sinclair
Writer: Jon Brown
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