Skin 2: The only thing left is sadness

Carmela 2022-12-01 13:58:51

I finally finished watching the second season of the skin bag two days ago. If the tune of the first season was basically bright (despite all the foul language, sex, and drugs), the second season was heavily grayed out. Everyone is in different troubles, gay Maxie gets infatuated by a heterosexual stalker; Tony gets hit by a bus and has to learn everything from scratch; poor Sid wakes up in the morning to find his father with a cigarette in one hand Die on the sofa with a glass of wine; Michelle and Sid finally snuggle up to keep each other warm; the self-defeating Kathy shows a strong tendency to self-destruct through drug addiction; Chris, who has nothing and was expelled from school, finally reunites with kind Jill fell in love, but it ended in the death of Chris. After learning that Chris suffered from a congenital genetic disease since he was a child, and that his brother died of this kind of brain disease, I think everyone understands why Chris didn't care about everything in the past. Medicine is like drinking jelly beans. He knew his final destiny from the beginning, so he would treat every day as his last day, and no matter how bad things happened, he would always say a relaxed and playful F* CK IT to deal with. And when he really fell in love with Jill, was willing to change for her, pay for her, and take a job and a relationship seriously for the first time in his life, his life has come to an end. When he was buried in a thin coffin, his friends saw him off from a distance, his young and short life was as bright and fleeting as the fireworks lit at that time... His lover Jill, with him in his belly, will always see The child who is not, and may never be born... At the end of the second season, with the death of Chris, there is a thick black sadness.

Dead dead, walking, youthful children, the end of the high school experience, go their separate ways. Maxi and her boyfriend are going to London to realize their dream of becoming a dancer, and they also bring Anwa, who has a terrible result in the college entrance examination, who doesn't know where to go; Tony and Michelle each got into the university of their choice, but they have been separated since then; Jill is having an abortion and staying Wandering in the child's hesitation; Sid boarded the plane to New York, looking for the big-eyed, thin, blond girl who wow~ when she opens her mouth...

What kind of story will the third season be? Hard to predict. There is news that the third season of the skin will all use new actors, if that is the case, then, it is a completely different story.

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Skins quotes

  • Emily: [laying in bed together] I wish I had a mom like that. Katie and me, we were always together. Everything together. Eating, sleeping... Until we were nine we used to take a dump at the same time.

    Naomi: [laughing] Jesus!

    Emily: Yeah. No secrets. There was no point.

    Naomi: [beat, then serious] What about this one?

    Emily: [beat] Naomi... I wanna tell people.

    Naomi: That you're gay?

    Emily: I wanna tell people about us. Come to the college ball with me.

    Naomi: Why would I want to do that?

    Emily: Why not?

    Naomi: Em, it's nobody's business.

    Emily: Why? Who cares what other people think?

    Naomi: Emily, I'm not like you! I'm not sure, like you are.

    Emily: What aren't you sure of?

    Naomi: Can't thinks ever be complicated?

    Emily: Fine, you like boys, too.

    Naomi: Maybe. Maybe I like only boys, apart from you.

    Emily: Well, that's fucking great! You're so in touch with yourself, aren't you?

    [beat]

    Emily: Come to the ball with me, like we're together.

    Naomi: [beat, then Emily gets up] Don't do that.

    Emily: No, you don't do that!

    [gets dressed]

    Emily: I'm not your fucking experiment! Where are my fucking shoes?

    [looking around]

    Emily: Oh, fuck it! Keep them! I'm tired... So sick and tired of it.

    [looking intensely at Naomi, beat]

    Emily: We're still holding hands through a catflap, aren't we?

    [beat]

    Emily: Have fun in Cyprus.

  • Emily: [quoting] "I see it now in lights - Naomi get to know me."

    Naomi: I thought it was catchy.

    Emily: Yeah, so is AIDS.