hate when they change cast

Totally,completly agree

That's when I stopped watching. That and the changing of powers. That just wrecked the show IMO

Yeah I agree. I never found the new people to be engaging at all.

That's what happens usually when you have a hit show, unless you have the cast down to a long contract most are going to jump ship for other projects. At the end of the day once they sniff big projects or bigger pay days no matter how good the show they are on they usually jump off. We have to remember that Misfits also was only on E4 and wasn't exactly a world wide hit like say Games of Thrones.

Looking at the original cast, is it fair to say Iwan Rheon is probably the most successful from the cast seen as he had a good role in Games of Thrones. He's done TV and Movies roles as well and turned into a very good supporting actor.

Robert Sheehan was the first one to leave and he was seen as the show's best thing, we were expecting a big career but it hasn't worked that way for him let's be honest. Most of the best stuff he's been in have been on TV. Not to say he's done badly he's probably the most successful cause he's done big budget Hollywood films and such. But he's usually cast in the supporting roles rather then the lead.

Lauren Socha who won a Bafta for her turn in Misfits pretty much burned her bridges with her racist attack and jail sentence, let's be honest she was done as a actress and has only done small parts here and there since.

Nathan Stewart Jarrett has had a decent career as a working actor, not going to be a big star at this point. He went on to star in the even better Utopia after his Misfits stint.

Antonia Thomas has gone on to a very good career mostly in TV with The Good Doctor and Lovestruck. She's done the odd good movie like Sunshine on Leith.

I say it's worked out for most of the original 5 for leaving the cast.

Mostly, yes. I did get used to Rudy and I think he was great. I don't like that they tried (at first) to make him "the new Nathan" with that crass, sarcastic, inappropriate mouthiness, but once Rudy's vulnerabilities started to come out more, I think he worked. Plus the original dynamic was mostly still there with the others.

But, yeah, Alex? Who cares for him? Some of the others were good characters, but not enough to float the show. If Finn was in two or three episodes as a friend-turned-villain for the original cast, for instance, I'd have been okay with that.

I also kinda felt like the show should have expanded past the ASBOW thing. Was that necessary? That they were young offenders? If Alex is going to be part of the show, why not have these people be bar regulars?

Bottom line: the first three scenes were boss. I think of them as the "time loop arc". They tell (and re-tell...) a complete story, finely-crafted. Love it. Season four was a real drag with the dynamic changed, but Curtis is still there, and then I didn't like the last episode with his character - I thought that was the wrong way to send him off. Season five was, uh...better than season four, anyway.

The new people just failed to get my interest I agree.