Michelle and Stanley are by a waterfront eating ice cream. Abbud is enjoying himself with his new fount love, Daisy, but I think it's more about sex since he's playing with a bunch of condoms. Chris is still living in the tree house and cleaning himself off in the morning with some wet naps, instead of a normal shower.
Eura, Tony's sister, comes downstairs to find parents are talking about Tony. Her father says "He just lies up there all weekend. No noise. No getting up in my face. No undermining my authority. I'm, telling you, Renee, it's creeping me out." It seems he's taking rejection and being ostracized from all his friends badly by hiding. Eura strips down to her underwear and takes some kind of cream from the fridge and just pours it over her head. That scene was just crazily hilarious. Her parents just ignore her. It's like they are so focused or oblivious, they don't even have peripheral vision.
Cadie is telling false stories again, her psychologist or therapist negotiates for her to tell a real story, original around 70%, she's says something like 40% and it was negotiated to 50%. This episode elaborates why she is telling these fairy tale stories. It may be the reason she is seeing all these shrinks. She asks Dr. Rich if he likes her. Dr. Rich responds "what's not to like", she is simply happy with that. Eura is up next, but Dr. Rich says he'll be doing reports until Eura is ready to talk. In a later scene after she kisses Stanley outside the house, she goes back to the therapist. The therapist is ready for the 50% real story now and asks what her issue is. She's not ready to tell her truth story. She responds "I don't want to know what's true. I don't know if I can take it." Stanley is the issue. Their relationship is only a story.
Back to Michelle and Stanley at the waterfront. They say it's peaceful without Tony but a bit boring. Michelle asks about Stanley and Cadie. He explains he's growing out of humiliation. He leaves to meet Daisy for help with a creativity project. Michelle would really like to see Stanley's creative side. After Stanley leaves, Eura shows up. Michelle tells her it's not nice to follow people around. Seeing that her brother is suffering being ostracized, Eura gives Michelle a letter that reads:
"I've never been here before so I'm not sure what I'm suppose to say or do. Trying to think of what I can say to you. Don't run away from this. Unless we try, it's going to be something we look back on, like when we soul danced in your club that night and you wanted me right there. Don't say you didn't want me."
Michelle looks at the back of the letter and there is a drawing of Tea. Michelle says "You should look a little closer kid. This isn't me. You must love the little bastard." Michelle tears the paper that is already ripped and a piece floats in the water. Eura runs off. She enters Tony's bedroom, Tony's laying there in the dark. He tells her that Michelle sent him a text message and told him what she did. He tells Eura she should not have done that. He also says "No, I don't want to talk about it." She sits in her room as if contemplating this situation. The lyrics "I believe you don't deserve my love" plays. Eura leaves the house at night.
In the creativity project, Stanley is playing the guitar with a song he made up. As he sings to Daisy, he explains that if he doesn't get an "A", he will fail the semester and if he fails the semester, her will fail the year. If her fails the year, his mom will keep doing the trainer or some guy at the gym and his dad will go into an introspective state and hang himself. Daisy asks about Cadie and tells him he needs to send signals to her. Daisy shows Stanley the look. The look is this wanting sex trance but in like outer space, not being in reality. The mesmerized look of being in love. Physically her eyes are moving in rapid directions. Stanley with a frozen look on his face replies "Um... Wow. That's pretty good, actually." Daisy replies "Self-expression, man"
Come back from commercial and a Realtor is showing Abbud's father's house to a potential buyer that climbs the tree house to find Chris, who is living there, naked. The buyer falls from the tree house. Tina is away, later Chris and Abbud break into Tina's apartment so Chris has a place to stay. We find that Abbud's father may have lost the potential buyer because of Chris. We also find that Abbud is Muslim and from Bangladesh.
Tea is following Betty because I think Tea still likes her. Betty is still upset and ask her did she clear her "clap", the Chlamydia. Betty also states she has an appointment to fix her broken ankle. In another scene Tea enters Betty's room in the hospital. Betty goes "Look who it is, Ms Clitoris... They gave me a shitload of drugs." Betty comments that she still hates Tea because Tea is a bitch who screws boys and just doesn't give a shit. But Betty is drugged out. Tea responds "You're wrong, Bets. I try." Betty says "Screw it. Screw everything. I want you in here. I always want you in here."
Stanley is watching old videos of him and Michelle playing prince and princess. He gets an instant message from Cadie and she is outside. But so is Michelle standing in the near distance, Michelle is holding a six pack and what looks like a bag of snacks. Stanley greets Cadie asking where Warren is; Cadie then responds "Warren went... Wyoming... because it's warm." Cadie wants Stanley to make real decisions about their relationship, she kisses him, while Michelle is watching. Michelle leaves, but then so does Cadie and Stanley goes back in the house.
Tony is speaking to Tea on the phone when Tea is apologizing for making Tony love her. Tony does, he says he loves her. Right after they disconnect, he gets a text message from an Unknown Number showing "took ur lil sister... she's a fighter hahahahahahahaha" He goes to the bedroom and she's not there. (A poster hangs there that shows Lolita.)
Tony goes to Stanley's house and asks for help to find his sister. They eventually all end up at Tina's place even though there is still hostility amongst them due to their social issues, as Tina is still gone. Chris has broken in earlier and is now residing there. They are being informed Eura is missing. Michelle states "call the National Guard" out of sarcasm. Stanley shows Michelle the text "Cum get her ass. Dare u" The text message says don't bring the cops and they discuss the police will not be involved. The last text message comes in with a symbol on it, it's identified by Chris as a Techno club. They all go.
Tony gets into a fight and is bleeding from the head. After the fight Michelle finds Tony and Tea holding hands, when discovered they quickly let go. Her shirt reads "I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD", written in with a marker. Stanley just entered VIP, as he searches, he finds Eura. Eura is on the screen and Tony calls their dad, who both freak out. Stanley says to Eura "That's pretty mean... What are you doing here?" Eura finally speaks. And she is just as potty mouth as the rest of them. The first words you hear from her mouth are "Is he here?" Stanley responds Tony is there and so is everyone else. She asks Stanley "What's he doing". Stanley replies that Tony is going crazy. She comments "Good. Got out of bed." Stanley says to her that she is the only person in the world Tony really really loves. Eura tells Stanley that he never understands anything. Stanley confirms "No, I don't" She calls Stanley a stupid dildo and says "He looks up to you... It's you he loves" She explains "Tony came to you for help didn't he?" He asks what happens now. She says "Tell him I'll see him back home" Stanley asks her where she stayed last night. Eura points to Cadie, just standing there. Cadie tells Stanley to go crazy and see what happens (to express himself). Stanley picks Eura up and gets on stage to tell Tony. Only security takes Eura away leaving Stanley on stage in front of the crowd. Stanley grabs the microphone and starts to repeat "Shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I can do without, come on, I'm talking to you, come on" The drummer gives him a beat to his rock lyrics. Cadie comes in after his solo: "In violent times... You shouldn't have to sell your soul. In black and white... They really, really ought to know" Duet: "Come on... These are the things I can do without... I'm talking to you... Those one track minds... They took you for a working boy... Kiss them goodbye... You shouldn't have to jump for joy." The crowd loves them and so does the rest of the skins crew. They did it as good as Tears for Fears.
Abbud says to Daisy the opposite of what he means. He tells her that he doesn't love her because of the previous agreement on mindless sex. But he does and asks her how can she expect anyone to feel mindless over her. He's in love and when you are in love you find qualities about your mate no one else sees. She gives him the signal look.
Tony and Eura are driven home. As they are grounded, Eura finally says "Good night, mom". Her mom is shocked.... "She spoke"
Tea lays next to Betty in the hospital, the lyrics "will you stand by me and just be friends" play.
Stanley and Chris are walking back to Stanley's house, since Stanley's dad is away, Chris will be staying in his room. Chris vomits and while he does that, Stanley sees Michelle sitting on the stoops. She asks him "Truth? You'd do anything for your friends... no matter what he's done... is it the same for me... do it now Stanley." They kiss. The lyrics "I look in her eyes and what do I see... She smells like flowers and taste like butter" plays. After a few minutes Chris comes along and shouts "Porn stars!... quit boring me... let's party."
(Flash scenes of all the characters from parts of the show and their real names)
Tony - James Newman
Tea - Sofia Black-D'Elia
Chris - Jesse Carere
Cadie - Britne Oldford
Stanley - Daniel Flaherty
Abbud - Ron Mustafaa
Michelle - Rachel Thevenard
Daisy - Camille Cresencia-Mills
Tina - Anastasia Phillips
Eura - Eleanor Zichy
---This was a really good episode for the finale of skins - Season One - American (US) version. The expressions on the actors were pretty good. Like I said in another post, kill the critics' bad reviews. The show is entertaining and fun to watch. Season one introduced all the characters and their interaction with one another. Though Stanley was introduced as a stoner who never cared. This episode shows that his friends made him the man that even Tony looks up to. Michelle is no longer with the jerk Tony, and is now with Stanley. It shows why Cadie is seeing therapists, she's looking for love, real love but not willing to deal with it's real pains. So she tells stories, could be the reason she is on all those meds and seeing all those therapists. Tea commits a little to Betty. Tony is still in love with Tea. Eura finally speaks. Abbud got Daisy. Chris is still the party man. Tina is away after the Chris incident. They left out, "Cool Teacher", Dave. They should have at least fit him in this episode for his fifteen minutes.
No comments:
Post a Comment