Overman Talks Misfits Series Three

If you followed series two of E4′s Misfits (Which we did, and we had some excellent things to say about it here.), then most likely you are dying to know what happens and what new powers our orange jumpsuited protagonists have chosen.

Howard Overman, the series creator and also the writer behind the recently approved Dirk Gently series, recently talked to SFX and gave some teasers to what will happen in series three, starting with the biggest of them all, what happens with the Misfits powers?

“They’re all going to have brand new powers. Nobody will have the same powers as in the second series…It’s quite daunting because they’ve had their powers for two series, and you’ve got to come up with a whole new set of powers, and we’re very much constrained with the type of powers we can do because you have to think about what works in terms of the character and story, as well as what’s achievable on our budget. We set up the idea that the powers are always linked to personality, so even now the characters’ choices are influenced and reflect the characters’ personalities, or else it just feels a bit arbitrary.”

Overman will not be able to write all eight episodes of the third series of Misfits due to commitments to the aforementioned Dirk Gently series as well as Merlin.

However, he will be getting them back into those nice looking orange jumpsuits as soon as he can:

“That’s the look of the show. They’re on community service and their jumpsuits are their de facto superhero costumes, so I will be finding a way to get them back in the jumpsuits fairly quickly.”

As for what kind of story lines we can expect, there were no definite clues given, but  Overman did have this to say:

“There’s one slightly bigger storyline towards the end of series three. I think there are two big stories in all because we’ve got eight episodes this year. One is a sort of mid-season break. It won’t become like other shows where they’re saving the world, although in one episode they kind of do save the world.”