The show starts out with the skins crew in Pacha, oh I forget they are in Baltimore... make it Sonar. Michelle is screaming to Tony that she loves him, but he can't hear her because the rave or nightclub's music is too loud.
The next morning Tony wakes up in bed next to Michelle at her mom's house. She goes to the kitchen and asks her mom: how do you know when you stop loving someone? Her mom replies something like: when it get's complicated and smelly. I didn't catch the precise wording, I was making a snack. Her mom is no longer with the child molester from the previous episode. She is now with Jackson, I mean Jason, Jackson was someone else. It's already plotted that Michelle's mom is a whore who hates when they get "clingy". Later she is no longer with Jason, she is with Rick (who she gets rid of to show that no man tells her what to do, to show that she is not dependant on any man) then later going on a date with her OB/GYN. She explains to her daughter, Michelle, that's her problem, you love.
Prior to this scene, Michelle has visited the same OB/GYN for an exam. Michelle and her mom share the same specialist. While in the school cafeteria Michelle gets a call being informed she has Chlamydia. Michelle freaks out and physically drops Tony to the ground, their friends look on, especially Tea who is looking on with a look of "Uh Oh!". One of the great parts to the acting in this show is that the facial expression of these characters are liked stoned out until the time to give that subtle hint of expression on an issue that just occurred. Michelle is now taking Doxycycline. Michelle is informed through Daisy that not only is Tony sleeping with the girl from the All Girls School recital but several others from the school they are attending, though she left out Tea (maybe she doesn't know). Michelle is at this point shown as oblivious or just didn't care that her beau was cheating on her. The school counselor that Michelle has also states that her grades are all "C"s and "D"s. The school counselor analyzes it as Michelle's bad grades are due to her popularity status, keeping up with her boyfriend and worry on appearance, ah High School nostalgia.
In Michelle's defense, Stanley confronts Tony by taking a swing at him in the bathroom; Tony moves and Stanley slams his face against the stall wall busting his nose. Stanley still cares for Cadie, upon web cam conferencing he finds that Cadie has been released from being institutionalized and is now with a Warren. Michelle enters class calling Tony a "Douche". Tony in return calls her by the nickname she hates "Nips", it made her livid. She screams out that he should put a sock in it (his penis) and screams that all the ladies should be careful because Tony has a serious case of STD. She physically gets up and goes over to Tony and upon returning she storms and knocks Tea's purse down to have the very same Doxycycline prescription fall out of Tea's purse. Tea has a look on her face of guilt and runs out of class. End the scene with Michelle sitting alone concentrating on her work. In the next scene: the upside for Stanley is Michelle comes to visit Stanley to show some love after finding Tony is a cheater. It's fount in this episode that before Tony came into the picture, Michelle and "Stanny" (his old nickname) were really good friend, thus so to have a prince and princess relationship. But Stanley messes up by having an American Pie "too soon" moment on Michelle's visit.
When Michelle finally goes home Tea is waiting there, this is the second visit. The first Michelle did not know, but after spilling the Doxycycline, on this visit Michelle knows and they speak to each other. But it's mostly from Michelle's angle. She goes "You didn't think I notice, but I did notice. Tea this is actually the first time I ever seen you cry" (In a sarcastic angered wicked witch tone), she goes into the house and slams the door. Tony visits and as if Michelle were foolish again to accept the apology, he states we should get back to together, "you love me". She does not confirm. After they have sex, instead she goes "I want you to leave and never come back, leave the keys." Tony asks then what was this? She replies, "you're STD compatible". Tony goes "don't do this" and she replies "it's you who loves me. good luck with all your shit". In the Final scene, Michelle is with Tea's lesbian lover, Betty. Betty introduces the Chinatown bus to Boston for thirteen dollars and they are off. "a place where they can be left alone and no one will bother them".
NC17 means No One 17 And Under Admitted by the Motion Picture Association of America's Classification and Rating Administration. skins is rated MA, Mature Audiences. It would seem I'm not the only one watching it because I have seen several reviews on it including the Entertainment section of http://www.nj.com/ and http://www.wetpaint.com/. All the details I have written about does not come from any other site, just me watching. It would seem before I even took initiative to just write about skins, it already hit the spinning fan with heavy reviews. In the February 7th 2011 issue of New York Magazine compared it to Glee with teen drama Gossip Girls (shamelessly when I first heard of Glee, I said what is that?). "Don't write off "skins" just yet it's got greasy, amoral potential." "By the time this essay comes out, you'll have been through the full hype cycle for MTV's Skins twice, whether you like it or not. Even before the teen soap opera aired, it had been designated the moral outrage of the month, with the Parents Television Council accusing MTV of making kiddie porn,..." I never liked daytime soap opera like All My Children but skins intrigues my neurons. Previously before "Michelle" was "Abbud". Next on episode eight of the ten: "Daisy".
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