More details about the first episode of Skins
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For the ones that haven't´s seen yet the first episode, The Stage website has some details about the episode that we are waiting for.
The next article is full of spoilers, so don´t keep reading if you don´t want to ruin the surprise!"Previous series of Skins have kicked off with a lighter episode, showcasing the series’ knack for comedy as a means of drawing in its audience, before heading off into darker territory.
Not so series 4. Co-creator Jamie Brittain’s first script of the new series has its lighter moments, for sure, but it’s a much more sober storyline than we’ve seen at the start of earlier series.
The very first scene is a blistering steadicam shot following a young, drugged-up girl as she walks through a heaving nightclub, blithely walking past the series regulars, heading up towards a balcony and then throwing herself off, killing herself in the process. It’s a shocking scene that works so well partly because, in typical Skins style it doesn’t shy way from showing anything: where other series would cut away just before impact and rely upon sound and other people’s reactions, we see the whole thing (thanks to some clever use of digital compositing).
The investigation into the girl’s death — and who sold her the drugs she was taking — is something that will provide an ongoing story in at least the first few episodes. The bulk of the first episode, though, is taken up with Thomas (Merveille Lukeba) who was organising the club night at which the girl died. As he struggles internally with the desire to move away from the drug world of the clubs, his encounter with the daughter of his church’s pastor lead him to betray his girlfriend Pandora (Lisa Blackwell).
As usual with Skins, the adults are predominantly feckless idiots, none more so than new college director David Blood, played by The Thick of It’s Chris Addison as a simpering, smarmy bureaucrat. It’s a great role, if the sort of caricature that doesn’t always sit well with the wonderfully drawn teenagers who make up the central cast. But Skins was ever thus.
All in all, then, this makes possibly the show’s strongest first episode to date, and suggests that Series 4 may have the potential to be the best yet.
Oh, yeah - and Effie’s back. Things are going to get interesting."
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