The WORST episodes of Misfits

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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 Four
star
7.41
2566 votes

#1 - Episode Four

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/20/2011

An old Jewish man plans to use some of Curtis' super-power to go back in time and kill Hitler. But his plan goes horribly wrong and the gang find themselves in an alternate world where the Nazis conquered Britain. With the Nazis growing stronger as they force Seth to 'deal' them super-powers, it's up to Kelly and the resistance to fight back. As the Nazis close in, Kelly and Seth find themselves drawn to each other.

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Episode Two
star
7.47
1484 votes

#2 - Episode Two

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/4/2012

Finn isn't quite as innocent as he looks when a dark secret he's been hiding at home is revealed. Can Seth be persuaded to come out of retirement and take a power before someone gets forced into submission? And Rudy and Curtis go into battle over a beautiful blind girl, while Jess meets new super-sexy barman Alex.

Directors: Nirpal Bhogal
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Episode One
star
7.49
1804 votes

#3 - Episode One

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/28/2012

Finn and Jess are zipping up those iconic orange jumpsuits for their first day of community service and meeting their probation worker... or is it their new probation worker? Things become stranger still when a man stumbles into the community centre with a briefcase and a power that infects them all. The truth unravels in a series of tense flashbacks and it's soon clear to Finn and Jess that there's more to community service than scrubbing off graffiti and picking up litter...

Directors: Nirpal Bhogal
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Episode Three
star
7.57
2941 votes

#4 - Episode Three

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/26/2009

Alisha is having fun using and abusing her power, but she can't seem to get the one man she really wants - Curtis. Meanwhile, Simon's online relationship with Shygirl18 blossoms, but Kelly's 'Restorative Justice' session doesn't go exactly to plan. And the gang discover that builders are digging a hole at the exact spot they buried the bodies - what are the chances of that?

Directors: Tom Harper
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Episode Five
star
7.60
1018 votes

#5 - Episode Five

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/20/2013

Rudy takes Finn to the superpower support group to help him get over Jess. But a girl with a mysterious power becomes infatuated with Finn and goes to extreme lengths to be with him. Rudy, meanwhile, tries to quash his own growing attraction to Jess, but that doesn't quite work. The gang help Rudy's alter ego to find Helen, the mysterious electrician who saved his life.

Directors: Lawrence Gough
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Episode One
star
7.61
2751 votes

#6 - Episode One

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/30/2011

Rudy gets a rude awakening in his first few days of community service, learning that with the keys to the infamous locker room comes a great deal of running, screaming and, in some instances, killing. But that really is the least of his worries. More pressing is just how to keep his secret superpower, well, secret. Meanwhile the rest of the gang are trying to adapt to life with their new superpowers. But just how did the trade-off with Seth, the superpower dealer, go down?

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Episode Five
star
7.61
1153 votes

#7 - Episode Five

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/25/2012

Finn finally tracks down his real father, only to discover that he's close to death. As he tries to build a relationship with him, Finn realises that his newly discovered half-sister might know more about their father's illness than she's letting on. Finn continues his sleuthing in an attempt to win Jess's affection by discovering Alex's hidden secret.

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Episode Three
star
7.65
1352 votes

#8 - Episode Three

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/2012

Rudy and his down-beat doppelganger are forced to unite as they have to confront a long-forgotten face from their shared past. Can they put aside their differences in time to save themselves from the killer? There's also a lot of hits going on... Jess hits on handsome Alex from the bar, Curtis hits on Lola the mysterious trainee probation worker, and Finn hits on his step-mum.

Directors: Nirpal Bhogal
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Episode Two
star
7.66
2510 votes

#9 - Episode Two

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/6/2011

Curtis uses his new gender-swap power so that he can compete again in the sport of athletics. There ends up being a complication when Curtis falls for Emma, one of the other athletes. Curtis can't tell Emma the truth about his real identity. A predatory figure ends up turning his advances towards the female Curtis.

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Episode Three
star
7.68
2407 votes

#10 - Episode Three

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/13/2011

Still trying to fulfil his destiny by becoming SuperHoodie, Simon saves Peter, a geeky comic-book nerd, from being mugged. Peter is in awe of SuperHoodie - at last he's found a real super-hero to idolise. Peter strikes up a friendship with Simon, a friendship that soon turns into obsession and threatens to destroy everything that Simon holds dear. Finally, Simon discovers the true sacrifices that you must make to become a real super-hero...

Directors: Will Sinclair
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Episode Eight
star
7.70
1138 votes

#11 - Episode Eight

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/2012

Rudy's passion for Nadine is put to the test when he tries to persuade her that they have a future together. Suspecting that she is keeping something from him, he finally discovers her secret, and the truth takes on biblical proportions when the gang discover her super-power.

Directors: Dusan Lazarevic
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Episode Four
star
7.71
3130 votes

#12 - Episode Four

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/3/2009

Curtis tries to use his superpower to go back to the past and change what happened the night he was caught by the cops, but he discovers that changing history isn't as easy as he thought.

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Episode Five
star
7.72
2232 votes

#13 - 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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Episode Six
star
7.74
1977 votes

#14 - 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 Three
star
7.75
1094 votes

#15 - 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 Two
star
7.77
1155 votes

#16 - 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 One
star
7.80
3934 votes

#17 - 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 Seven
star
7.80
975 votes

#18 - 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 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 Eight
star
7.82
967 votes

#20 - 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 Two
star
7.84
3198 votes

#21 - 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 Six
star
7.85
958 votes

#22 - 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 Five
star
7.86
2927 votes

#23 - 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 Four
star
7.86
978 votes

#24 - 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 Two
star
7.86
3172 votes

#25 - 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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