www.hulu.com/misfits Found out this got put up on Hulu and thought I'd recommend it. It's a british sci-fi drama about a group of young offenders who get put together on community service, and a mysterious storm gives them superpowers. Now that may sound like a Heroes ripoff, but it's tonally a very different thing. It's much smaller scale because it's british(were things being a bit crap and stingy is kind of our thing) and they wouldn't have the money for something bigger anyway. The characters are also not typically heroes, and mostly just have shit happen to them or are generally cleaning up their own messes. The powers are also handled in an interesting way, and are usually based on the character's personality or history, such as the character Curtis, who was a disgraced athlete who regrets getting busted on a drugs charged whose power is reversing time, but only when he actually feels bad about something that's happened. It also handles it's mix of dark drama and audacious humour really well. I can't find too many clips to post because the channel that makes it over here gets a lot of the unauthorised uploads taken off youtube...unless it's a music video for some reason, so here's a trailer and clip I got from dailymotion.
I can't say enough good things about this show. I caught it about 4-5 months ago, before it hit Hulu, and just absolutely loved it. This is honestly what Heroes should have been.