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"FacebookPinterest\n\n Dear Netflix,\n\n We love you, but you're killing us. This week you announced price hikes and reduced subscription options. Don't get us wrong: The content is wonderful. Keep it coming. But the sting still lingers, and we cannot in good faith recommend that our readers use you this week. We have no choice but to look to other sites. Consider this our (very) minor protest. \n\n _ Sincerely,\n\n GQ_    \n\n\n\n \"Misfits\", the British phenomenon and 2010 BAFTA winner for Best Drama Series, was described by a colleague as a blend between \"Skins\" (sigh) and \"Heroes\" (ugh). A close friend whose discerning tastes in trashy television I dearly respect said the exact same thing. Both swore to me that the show is a must-see. I resisted, instead nestling in my HBO ivory tower to watch \"Treme.\" Then I realized that \"Treme,\" for how lovingly it has recreated Post-Katrina life in New Orleans, is a dull slog. So I decided to see if my colleague and friend were right.\n\n They are. \"Misfits\" is outstanding.\n\n And not in a look-for-the-Criterion-edition-in-10-years kind of way, but in a we-will-entertain-the-shit-out-of-you way. The show features five attractive, snotty juvenile delinquents who are tasked with community service for the summer. When an unexplained and tackily created CGI electrical storm knocks them out, they awake to find that a unique superpower is bestowed on each of them: the ability to reverse time, turn invisible, read people's thoughts. Seriously.\n\n The powers confound these kids\u2014they don't transform into heroes or seek a greater purpose in their altered existences. Rather, they cover up their newfound skills from others and spend far more time hiding a dirty deed that occurs early on in the series. We are introduced to a few bit characters, but \"Misfits\" smartly keeps its eyes trained on these five kids now burdened with more than any of them could have imagined.\n\n I found myself frustrated a few episodes in that the characters did not spend more time exploring what exactly happened to them and why\u2014wouldn't you want to know? \u2014but I now appreciate that the powers are not much more than the backdrop for the generation of genre-bending storylines. We are alternatively given horror, action, sex, and sci-fi sequences. And what brings it all home is the snarky humor oozing out of every scene.\n\n Though two seasons have aired in the U.K., Hulu is giving the U.S. its first taste by releasing one episode at the beginning of each week. We now have access to the first five of the six-episode first season. You have the weekend to wash your elitism down with a big glass of trashy TV before the last foot drops on Monday.\n\n Other Recommendations: After extensive research, our potential tie-in recs come from Netflix. Which we're avoiding this week. So in protest we'll skip this portion of the column and see if our bruised feelings have passed by next Friday. \"Misfits\" will keep you busy all weekend anyway."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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