Misfits

Series Similar to Misfits

If you enjoyed Misfits, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. My Mad Fat Diary

   2013 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on E4.

   Drama looking at life from the perspective of funny, music-mad Rae.

2. Skins

   2007 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on E4.

   Irreverent comedy drama from the makers of Shameless, which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

3. Being Human

   2009 · Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Comedy-drama series about three twenty-something housemates trying to live normal lives, despite struggling with unusual afflictions - one is a werewolf, one is a vampire and the other is a ghost.

4. Gen V

   2023 · Comedy, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   From the world of The Boys comes Gen V, a thrilling new series set at America's only college for superheroes. These gifted students put their moral boundaries to the test, competing for the university's top ranking, and a chance to join The Seven, Vought International's elite superhero team. When the school's dark secrets come to light, they must decide what kind of heroes they want to become.

5. Freaks and Geeks

   1999 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Freaks and Geeks, the Emmy® award-winning series about the trials and tribulations of high school outsiders in 1980 Michigan.

6. Eureka

   2006 · Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.5).

   With the help of Albert Einstein and other trusted advisors, President Harry S. Truman commissioned a top-secret residential development in a remote area of the Pacific Northwest, one that would serve to protect and nurture America's most valuable intellectual resources. There our nation's greatest thinkers, the über-geniuses working on the next era of scientific achievement, would be able to live and work in a supportive environment.The best architects and planners were commissioned to design a welcoming place for these superlative geniuses to reside, an area that would offer the best education for their children, the best healthcare, the best amenities and quality of life. A community was created to rival the most idyllic of America's small towns— with one major difference: this town would never appear on any maps. At least, none that haven't been classified "eyes only" by the Pentagon.Thus, the town of Eureka was born. But for all its familiar, small-town trappings, things in this secret hamlet are anything but ordinary. The stereotype of the absent-minded professor exists for a reason, and most of the quantum leaps in science and technology during the past 50 years were produced by Eureka's elite researchers. Unfortunately, scientific exploration is rarely what one expects, and years of experiments gone awry have yielded some peculiar by-products.With the population's unique talents, troubled psyches and limitless resources, these small-town concerns have a way of becoming big-time problems. It is at that intersection, where human frailty and super-science collide, that Eureka began…

7. The Aliens

   2016 · Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, hidden gem, also on E4.

   The aliens are here. In fact, they've been here for the last 40 years. But though they walk like us, talk like us and look like us, they're not allowed to live with us. All aliens are forced to live behind a huge wall in a in a segregated community called Troy; a ramshackle and hedonistic ghetto where a criminal sub-culture thrives. It's a world of mystery, danger and forbidden pleasures.But when mild-mannered human Lewis, a border control guard at the wall's check-point, discovers that he is half-alien, his secret threatens to turn his world upside down as he is drawn into the dark underbelly of Troy.

8. Life on Mars

   2006 · Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8).

   Drama about a present-day Manchester detective who, after suffering near-fatal injuries in a car-crash, awakes to find himself living in 1973.

9. The Comic Strip Presents...

   1981 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   The Comic Strip Presents... began airing on the launch night of Channel 4 in November 1982. The show aired a number of episodes and one-off satirical comedy specials over a number of years, including a move to BBC2 in the early 1990s. Since 2012, GOLD has begun airing brand new one-off episodes of the show with some of the original cast members. The cast who originally appeared in the show include Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, many of the cast members comedy careers launched due to the series popularity.

10. The Middleman

    2008 · Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended

    Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

    When vile villains threaten to dominate the world, one man walks the line between ordinary and extraordinary. That man is The Middleman. But saving the world is no longer a one man job! Meet Wendy Watson, The Middleman's unlikely new partner. Armed with gadgets, gizmos and doohickeys, they fight evil so you don't have to!