Liam and Gareth

The opening scene to misfits immediately represents the youth of britain today with the fact they're serving community service, smoking and swearing regularly and making insults too each other for the littlest of reasons. For example, it starts off with the 5 main characters and their probation worker, the scene features consistent abuse towards one another, swearing and disobeying the probation worker, which fits in with the conventions set for Britain's youth of today.

You call me ‘chav’ one more time I’ll kick you so hard in the cunt your mum’ll feel it”

People seem to refer to Heroes when talking/writing about Misfits. This isn't valid as Heroes is a very different series. Misfits is about some ordinary late-teenagers getting super powers - Heroes is about Hollywood characters receiving superpowers and saving the world by being superheroes.

The teenagers are seen as scum by the audience, the adults in the show and each other. they represent britain in the way that the age difference supposedly makes them lower class in the eyes of the biased adults. The series successfully manages to sway this vision of teenagers as scum, by making you sympathise with the difficult decisions they frequently have to make in life. This not only attracts the audience in deeper but makes you