3. Misfits
Must watch Season 1-2Or just start start over from season 4 Misfits hit where Heroes did not. It had humour and a stellar cast that made the show entertaining and tongue-in-cheek that aimed at a younger audience. While Heroes origins seemed steeped in X-File conspiracy theology, Misfits straight up informs us that everyones powers came from a hailstorm that affected some and didn't affect others. The show centers around a group of juvenile delinquents on probation whos very first problem is having to kill their probation officer, who was also affected by the storm. The constant rotation of probation officers is handled in hilarious fashion as the group tries to balance the use of their powers or in the case of Season 1s break-out star Nathan (Robert Sheehan) attempting to discover his, the first two seasons are tight and well-paced. The term Season is also a bit misleading to North American audiences, as the first 2 seasons comprise only 13 episodes. BUT Once Sheehan left, the chemistry was difficult to recover. The kids made a go of it, with Rudy (Joseph Gilgun) doing a great job of gradually replacing Nathan as the comic relief but it began to suffer from a story line that didn't know how to end or evolve. You can only kill so many probation workers and with the time passing since the storm, it made it hard to fathom the yet undiscovered powers and people that started to appear as the show went on. By the start of season 4, all but one of the original cast had been replaced and the stories that were so tantalizingly introduced were all but ignored in order to get quickly to the next idea. The idea of a man that could switch genders had potential but was quickly dismissed with a lazy excuse to give him another power, as was the time loop story line that seemed to end rather too abruptly. Off season shenanigans helped boot Kelly out of the mix so by the end of Season 4 the audience was left to try to create a new relation with a bunch of new characters that were popping up with new powers long after the originating storm had disappeared from memory.