Misfits - Series 1-5 [Blu-ray]

Misfits: Series 1-5 on DVD: This 12 DVD set has all the episodes of Channel 4's critically acclaimed urban SciFi show 'Misfits'. Season one started screening in November 2009 and season 5 concluded with the final episode in December 2013. This British comedy-drama television show follows five young minor offenders sentenced to work in community service who suddenly appear to develop superpowers after a strange electrical storm. Being teenagers with 'issues', dealing with their new random superpowers doesn't always go exactly to plan, so predictably their swearing soon gets a lot worse (it is a comedy-drama show though, albeit with dark humour). The series was filmed in South East London, mostly on location around the Southmere Lake & community centre in Thamesmead. Misfits is often compared to Skins Series 1-7 [DVD], more for the fact that both shows are classy, gritty & original fun TV programs that deservedly reached older audiences outside the target young adults age group, rather than for similarities in plot. I got this set for my teenage daughters 19th birthday, and we both enjoyed watching the series together. Misfits is a surprisingly powerful drama, being moving, funny, & disturbing and often all at the same time.The twelve DVD set has English audio only (in Dolby stereo) with HoH English subtitles (no other languages). The TV aspect is 16:9 widescreen, and the disks are PAL UK Region 2 locked (although you can often view region locked DVDs on a PC DVD drive anywhere using videolan.org's freebie open-source & multi-region 'VLC Media Player' software player). Total run time for all 37 episodes is 28 hours 24 minutes. Plus there's another 5 hours 15 minutes of extras ranging from 'behind the scenes' for every season, to mini-documentaries such as: 'The making off', 'casting', 'working with puppets', and the gag reels. There's also the hi-res Misfits Series 1-5 Blu-ray UK region B set available. The TV show is rated age 18+, for violence, swearing, sex scenes & occasional drug use, although for seasons 3 & 5 the rating drops to 15+. The set's cardboard outer sleeve is quite flimsy, but the five plastic DVD cases within it are fairly solid with 2xDVDs in season 1, 2, & 5, and 3xDVDs in seasons 3 & 4. The Christmas Special and the two 10 minute shorts 'Vagas Baby' and 'Erazer' are included. We thought this DVD set was good value at the £40 we paid.Many consider Misfits season 4 to be the weakest in terms of story-lines, but then the other seasons do set high standards. Both the Misfits series and its writer Howard Overman were nominated for RTS Awards in March 2010. The series won the 2010 BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Series, and Lauren Socha also took home the "Best Supporting Actress" BAFTA for her part as Kelly. The show was nominated for "Best Comedy Drama" at the British Comedy Awards in 2011, but lost to Psychoville, although it did pick up the 2011 RTS award for digital effects. So all agree, Misfits is great TV. Another excellent 'young adults' TV series to check out is the BBC series Being Human - Series 1-5 Boxset [DVD] - werewolves, vampires, and a ghost all 'living' as mates in a house-share, and is rated age 15+.

I watched the series when it was originally aired on TV and many times on dvd, so when I saw it available on bluray I had to update my collection.

Well worth a watch Robert Sheehan kind of makes the series. Without him the other seasons don’t feel as good.

I arrived at the party 11 years late for this show.Watching for the 1st time in 2020.Always been on my radar and binged watched it on Netflix as soon as it was available.Series 1-2 are definitely the funniest and the best due to Nathan.But Series 3, 4 & 5 are also good in their own way. Rudy gets better and better as the series progress.Thought it was so good I decided to purchase the Blu-ray boxset to re-watch and also get access to the behind the scenes extras and the Vegas Baby mini-episode branching series 2-3.Only daft issue was my box set contained 2 copies of series 3 and no series 4!Returned for a replacement. No idea how this can happen...

BAD LANGUAGE ALERT!If you've never seen this, then you've been missing out. This is an amazing production, brilliantly written and acted, with typically british humour.The series follows a group of young men and women on community service after commiting petty offenses.Imagine an event that affects every person it touches, but in different ways, and suddenly they have superpowers! The only trouble is is that these superpowers,in general, are either completely random, totally uncontrollable or downright dangerous, Hence, mayhem ensues. The body count is high and the bad language is ever present, however you'll laugh out loud as often as you'll be shocked into silence!Not since BSG have i been so hooked on a sci-fi series. Great stuff.

Good for passing the time if nowt on telly then it became interesting

Arrived Much quicker than expected which I am truly grateful for.Season 1 - One Disc.Season 2 - Two Discs.Season 3 - Three Discs.Season 4 - Three Discs.Season 5 - Two Discs.Every Season has special features behind the scenes; Stunts; Making of; Gag reels and much more all the usual you would expect on Blu Ray.On the whole this would seem very similar to the DVD Packaged series just Blu Rays instead for what you get this would seem very much worth the price.

The show is amazing I'll give it 5 stars out of 5 any day. This product however, I googled to see if it was region locked and must've found idiots or trolls bcuz I was informed it wasn't..it is. I'm Canadian and the product will not play in my ps3 or the blu ray player in my computer. If you love the show but don't live in the uk just be aware you'll need a player that works with the region code for the uk.