Skins (British TV series): Difference between revisions

'''''Skins Fire''''' depicts Effy as a 21-year-old [[hedge fund]] receptionist for a London firm. She lives with Naomi, who is drifting through life with vague ambitions of being a stand-up comedian. Effy is much more serious and driven than in the past, and impresses her bosses enough to win a shot at being a [[stock trader]]. In her attempts to succeed in her career, she becomes embroiled in an [[insider trading]] scandal, as well as romantically involved with her boss Jake ([[Kayvan Novak]]). To spare her lovelorn friend Dom ([[Craig Roberts]]) from jail time for his part in the crime, she makes a full confession to the Financial Services Authority of hers and Jake's activities. Meanwhile, Naomi reveals she has cancer, and pleads with Effy not to tell Emily, who is in New York on an internship. Dom and Effy support Naomi until it is clear her condition is terminal; Emily returns to London, hurt and betrayed, and comforts Naomi while Effy is prosecuted.

 

 

'''''Skins Rise''''' follows Cook at 21, who is on the run and living alone in Manchester. In an introductory voiceover, Cook explains his thoughts and alludes towards a murder he may have committed; it is implied but not outright stated that he is avoiding capture after killing John Foster a few years back. He is now a drug dealer and has a semi-serious relationship with a woman named Emma ([[Esther Smith]]), but becomes mesmerised by Charlie (Hannah Britland), the girlfriend of local drug lord Louis ([[Liam Boyle (actor)|Liam Boyle]]) after he is asked to watch over her for a few days. After Louis brutally kills a man named Jason ([[Lucien Laviscount]]) for having an affair with Charlie, Cook flees Manchester, taking Emma with him. En route, Charlie calls Cook and begs him to take her with them. The three end up at Emma's family's old country home, in a remote part of the country. Not long after though, Louis arrives, explaining that he tracked their car. After Charlie refuses to go with him, the three leave the house and find Emma's parents' car abandoned, indicating they have been killed. The trio are stranded in the woods, where Louis catches up with and murders Emma. Seeing this, Cook decides he is done running, confronting Louis and beating him to a pulp. He declares, "I'm Cook. You thought you could kill me? I'm fucking Cook." He helps Charlie escape and alerts the police to Louis. In a final voiceover, he ponders the significance of life and death and how it gets ‘under your skin’. His fate, like at the end of season 4, remains ambiguous.