皮囊第七季

   五 年了来到第七季了，是该完结了么。
                                        
                                    第一集 “Fire"
 当看到Effy在办公室里一本正经的上班的时候，我噗嗤一下笑了，那个”嗑药少女“满嘴”FUCK“的女生会这样，但是细想一下，她是一个冷到骨子里的人，她知道自己要什么，她下了个决定就是，只想好好工作了。
但是她的欲望还是那么强烈，她意识到了这个年龄的欲望已经不是能靠迷幻药能解决的。她和他老板上床，非法获得信息来上位。得到她所谓的"钱”但是“钱”真的能解决所有问题了么，那为什么还是整晚不睡去"pub" 呢？不是已经妥协说，已经长大了么？最后还不是最好的朋友得癌症，在死亡面前，自己的那点欲望又算什么。

                                       第三集“PURE"
是的，我最爱的”cassie" 那个厌食症神经质女孩儿，就真的没人了解你的世界么？那个世界可正美，但是你又在逃避什么呢？“i just waiting something good things"但是真的美好的世界是靠等来的么？

你离开父母去伦敦端盘子，白天浑浑噩噩， 只有晚上才会变成你自己。但是这样逃避真的能解决问题么？

     五年前，我上大一，从一个黄土高坡上的小县城考到广外，学外语，为了适应英美国家文化，练听力，我在学校FTP上追起了skins, 当时真不懂怎么资本主义国家的孩子童年那么不幸福，小小年纪就酗酒吸毒乱搞性关系，没有一个正常的温馨的家庭生活。还是我们社会主义好。就像以前看《红与黑》《包法利夫人》《茶花女》那样，整个基调好消沉，资本主义国家，我还真的是一丁点都不羡慕。
    当时先看的第三季，全剧就只喜欢fredie, 他在开学第一天课堂上表白的一幕好浪漫，但Effy后来的表现真叫人……， 哎，effy 的生活一塌糊涂，所以才和cook 一对， 他们两个又可恨又可怜，当时多希望看到effy 和fredie 终成眷属啊，P.S. 配乐很好听，有些剧情本来不是很懂的，给配乐这么一渲染，我好像就似懂非懂了。
    英剧的等待总是很漫长，我接着看了第一第二季，合着effy的哥哥比她还胡来，是叫nick 吧，觉得他很活该，乱搞，还勾引好朋友max，我最喜欢的当然是sid和cassie了吧，他们，和别的孩子的颓废不一样，是可以从他们身上看到希望的那种，cassie不吃饭，让我好心疼，sid很窝囊，当两个人在一起就会变得不一样，爱情的力量就是如此吧，它可以给你希望，给你光明，改变你的生命。呵呵，我童话看太多了。
    第四季出来时，我大三吧，结局出来时我快砸掉电脑了，为什么会这样，社会怎么是这个样子的，很想说脏话，想骂人，成人的世界真的比我们想像的要复杂，要肮脏。真不想长大，不想长大变得和那些成人同流合污。
     第五第六季，看了一集，没感，演员剧情没有深入我的内心，果断弃剧，直到 昨天，在豆瓣英剧排行榜上看到第七季出来，而且还是头四季的老演员，我立马加班加点把六集看完了。
     谈谈感受，五年了，我好像第一次真正看懂了，不知是因为我长大了成熟了，理解能力强了，还是因为中国的成人世界和英国的越来越接近了，所以我终于深有同感了。职场的潜规则，人吃人，看到effy穿职业装努力在工作应酬，真的很不习惯，我们都会因一时错乱迷了双眼，忽略了身边更重要的一切，最后的牢狱之灾反倒是件好事，监狱，医院，精神病院，戒毒所，这些好像本来就是effy的归宿似的，至少，她找到自己了，可喜可贺。cassie， 还记得她的“wow”吗，那个瘦瘦地总不肯吃饭的女孩终于胖了一点点了，很开心能再次看到她，而且她还是那么的……pure, 那种灵气还在，而且更加懂事，为家庭承担责任，恩，好孩子，我喜欢。 cook, 这个我曾经最鄙视的人，进了贩毒团伙，搞了老大的女朋友，被发现以后带着两位女友亡命天涯。但他还是改变了，而且，是我看到的这一季改变最大，人物刻画的最好的一个，至于他的未来会怎样，我倒是放心了，因为他已经彻头彻尾地长大了。

一天兩季的節奏，刷完了皮囊，停不下来的想要看完。

第一二季的時候喚起了好多關於大英國的回憶，依然像藏在心底的真愛一樣，對其無法釋懷。

第三四季出現了全劇最愛的一對couple，Naomi和Emily，經歷了出柜以及後來的各種shit，最終還是毫無懸念的在一起了，只是吵闹分和的过程实在让人揪心的虐。特別讓人安心的一對兒，覺得不管發生什麽她們都不會分開。尤其是第四季第二集裡面的兩機車少女簡直是全劇最愛的一段！

第五六季不太喜歡，第三屆小孩裡面，Franky的逆襲簡直不能接受，太突然轉變太大。Mini簡直就是美劇誤入。男生們也很pussy，Cook就是American Pie里面的Stiff。

第七季，孩子們長大了。後媽編劇讓Naomi得了cancer。。。虐哭



过了两天了，还觉得陷在剧情里面无法自拔。虽然高中生活没有剧中那么颓丧的drugs啊叶子啊party啊，但是也够混乱了。比起美剧中那些高中生，skins孩子们的高中才是真正的青春！

       第七季编剧正一神经病，把naomi和effy俩人性格调换了，堕落太妹effy忽然玩转金融界，好端端的高材生naomi弄成单口相声+癌症，韩剧吗？这么狗血剧情！！！干嘛emily到美国不跟着一起去那生活，不是说：“Really I'd die for you..”吗？却留在伦敦独自die！！！天天傻B颓废喝酒吃大麻，神经病剧情！！！

    但为了这对最爱的拉拉还是继续追剧~
   
    由第一季首播到现在第七季，看着第一部接触的英剧就快剧终，真心舍不得，年龄相仿，感觉和她们一起长大，没想到她们的未来是这么的狗血，真痛心，青春那么苦逼，长大也那么无奈~

Effy's going to jail, Naomi's going to die, Emily's going to be even worse than death. Most of the viewer of the last episode of skins, cannot cope with tragic endings like that, including me at least for a while. For me, personally, it's not the death or prison that bothers the most, it is the non-dramatic way of telling almost nonchallently, of the most tragic ending that one can think of is happening right in front our eyes while pretend not a big deal of it. Instead of showing meanings to us, all is simply impled by. Those viewers seek for some kinda closure of the whole skins series aren't gonna get it, for there left so many lose ends; those who hope for drama aren't gonna get it, disappointed by its realistic telling of dramatic event and its anti-clamax of an ending; Those who expect twists and turns would surprise and flip at the extreme lack of it. Despite all that, we should decide to love it, after all that is the end we get in life.

The first thing needs to be clarified is that television becomes no less inferior than literature these days, at least for some good television shows like Skins, it is true. A fact we need to come to terms with. And as no sensible readers would curse the writer and demand him to rewrite an ending that he doesn't like, television is not an negotiation as well. For those who think it is, well you are so self-involved to hook on the delusion of it. That's the sole lie the life-shows nowadays are depending on you to believe, a conviction that the power's in your own hand. For Christ sake, what a convenient flattering that is! As sensible viewers, we see right through it, we accept what we got and try to appreciate the beauty of it.

After all, Skins fire. As the title suggests, it is about lights, destruction and rebirth. And a terrible beauty is born. Adulthood is such a terrible beauty. Especially for Effy, once aloof, indifferent, omniscient goodness in her little circle, washed by fire, and reborn into human. Of course, there's some sacrifice along the way. So walking out of paradise full of drugs, parties and hormones, here she is, taking three steps of becoming human as we know it.

Step one, compassion.
"I want to feel something, I want to be hurt! Come and hit me!" The girl ran into the middle of the street and exclaimed a death wish in front of world. That's near the ending of Effy's teenage years, almost the last we see her. Since then, apparently, the wish has come true. In fire, we see Effy's feeling, invisible as it always is, all over the place. The way she bites her finger nails watching Naomi on stage doing shitty comedy and being laughed at, the way she cries when being yielded at the truth of Naomi's illness, the way she goes blank hearing the doctor said the drug doesn't work and the way stares Naomi lying on the CT scan thereafter runs out of room, and the way she panics holding Naomi in her arms puking all over the place-- we never have seen Effy going through all levels of emotions before, not merely for herself, but for her best friend, for Naomi and Emily. With herself, she can be tough, takes it on her own: "I am fine", when Naomi asks she used three words as such to conclude it, even if she's not. Far from doing nothing, as Naomi accuses her to be, she's doing everything she could to hold it together, being tough for her, can't stop feeling for her but has to conceal it for her. That is not sth she told us, That's sth we sense. For those who love Naomi and Emily with such a bias to take in everything they say, myself included, might look beyond the surface and see they are blocked by own individuality as well. In fact, compassion is all Effy is in fire, "she has such big love inside of her, just needs to be let out, and the possibility to let out scares the hell of her" Effy's mom knows her nature well. Well, at least she smiles at the end, typical Effy smile, as if to say "you don't know me at all", or maybe this time, it says: "I can feel after all, i feel something". Compassion we know that is what makes us all human, and from the moment she feels it, Effy is no longer mysterious and inappoachable fairie, she is one of us, human.

Step two, mortality.
Naomi's death really provided an occasion for mourning, mourning for the beauty being tragically destroyed. It is sad, true. But it is sensible, as we consider it. After all it becomes a tradition of skins, to kill one favorite character at a time of generation. And for generation 2, Freddie is definitely not the most favorite one. It is the thing had between Naomi and Emily that makes the most wonderful thing that the make-believe world of skins had created for us. And let's face it, the most beautiful thing as it always, is irreplacable. There's no carnation for that, no reborn in it (as they are lesbians) therefore, it is immortal. This is the reason they can't survive the mortal world of adulthood. One of them has to be destroyed, and the other along with it. And as if killing our favorite couple isn't cruel enough, Effy needs to witness and learn from the tragic of all this, to see the only positive unyielding love that exists in her past world being worn out by an incurable disease of mankind. From the moment her best friend told her the illness, Effy knows it's gonna go down like this, she knows it too well, so she can't stand watching Naomi pretend like nothing and make fun of herself in a comedy, yet she complains in the most minute ways, pissing Naomi about the rent which essentially means the burden all weighs down on her- she needs to be the rock, and it's fucking hard. Neither can she offer comforts to her like innocent Dom, cause she knew it better, the truth hurts so much that she can't fathom a way to act it otherwise. Again, like I said, Mortality takes its toll, for Effy, it is the farewell paid to the old world of her past with Naomily in it, a burning ritual she has to experience descending to the world of works in her fantasy, a brave new world of men. And Naomily is the sacrifice, given that Homosexuality implies in literature a longing for death in itself. The poet and beauty must die, so the rest of us can keep on living.

Step three, helplessness.
At times we can't help but wonder why things always go terribly wrong with Effy, no matter how fucking together they all seem in the first glimpse! The onmiscent soul of this childhood circle stumbles way out of their idealistic small world and find she's merely a tool used by more onmiscent forces way sophisticated than she is. Helplessness is the condition of humanity. It breaks her charm, make her helpless. Emily says: "We idolized her." Cook's fucking Dad: "You are too pretty for your own good, that's why you destroy everything you touch." Such are the contrast between surface and core of Effy. Lights and destruction all sealed in one, waiting to be born. And in skins fire, it burst alive. It is interesting to note that in retrospect, everyone around Effy ends in various tragic ways: her parents separated, her brother got hit by a car, Freddie got killed and Cook went down for his revenge, and we thought Naomily is the only exception for they are special, how naive we are! There's a certain helpless gravity for tragic in Effy that makes her so appealing and at once so heartending. It almost seems nothing stays with her, under circumstances like that one almost certainly can't help but hold itself to blame. God knows how she serectly took the fault herself for all lost in life! In front of the mass of life, for the first time, we see her had no clue about what to do? It is Naomi in sick bed push some sense in her again, "Seriously what do we got, Effy? Well, I am going to die, what you gonna do? " That probably reminds her who she is and should be. After that, we see her picking up Emily at airport, possibly she called her up and reveal the truth as she should in the first place; then she made deal with victoria to tell on boss under sole condition that dom is untouched. She made the right choice eventually, as she used to be. Better late than never, taking responsibility for what she did like a fucking adult. It takes her edge off, which still makes me angry, not at her, but at the fucking real world of ours that rounded with such a flame in the first place. Yet the most helpless as it always was in Effy is the fact that she has to play the help all her life, which means no one helps Her, that she is truly THE most helpless one. That leads to off-putting love affair with her boss. But seriously cut her some slack, please. Leave aside the fact that boss is adulthood look-alike of Freddie, probably an unintended happy coincidence, she's lonely, and extremely so after a load of pressure landed on her, taking care of best friend mentally and financially, watchig them being happy and all that. What do we expect her to do, instead of cutting herself and going mental in the bathroom, isn't it much healthy distraction to find a man to love and entertain a little fantasy that somebody got her back? Dom and Boss, she picked the one who pays her rent, so that Naomi didn't have to. And that, for me, makes character of Eff, most lovable and lamentable beyond all.

The Effy who used to smile her mysterious smiles that says "you don't know me at all", still smiles at us in the end. Is it sort of mock or self mock? for many a thousand viewers shall this, her mock, mock out of their retardness after seeing all she went through still don't see who the hell she is; mock herself from dreaming our world to be hers therefore making effort to it; mock grown-ups down, and others yet ungotten and unborn that shall have cause to curse the city that bereaves her Eden and beloved from earth.

Skins fire comes to an end. The followings, in this order, comes pure and rise. It is interesting to note that in the trailor the order has been rearenged: it should be rise, fire, and pure. That is to say the actually serie begins in the medres, classic order of story telling. And it should be expected to return to rise in a circle, suggesting to a eternal reoccurrence of the proccess. Therefore, we have reasons to believe fire is the brutalest one, perhaps things would pick up tone a bit: in pure, it might smooth out a bit, going for depth; rise probably going to be full of struggles but worth it. But eventually, as the trailor so artisticaly hints at: three individual under one skin, going through phases, transforming into one another's life. Step by step, we walk out of ourself, into hers, into his then eventually back to our own skins. All change and changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born.

总觉得这应该是一个像彼得潘一样永远不长大的电视剧，孩子们就这么一波一波的叛逆下去，延续着这样的叛逆青春。所以看到成熟的Eff和Cook，还有这部剧沉默，大众的剧情，让我觉得跟之前的几季格格不入。但是换个角度想想这可能也应该是这样了吧，青春不可能永无止境，人不能永不长大，最终我们还是要学着懂事，学着承担。

刚开始看第一季的时候真的不是很能接受，总觉得这种小痞子，满嘴脏话，堕落的电视剧不能接受。中途弃过几次。但是后来明白了。Skins就是这些孩子叛逆，任性，不管不顾的外衣。真正在皮囊底下的是他们各种各样的脆弱与伤痕。他们到底是需要关爱的孩子。他们用他们的友情，爱情在，相互温暖着彼此。但是这跟最后一集所叙述的skins的意义完全背离。

这一季里的Eff跟COOk都长大了，都事故了，但是最后还是没给他们一个好下场。豆娘还在旁边写贴了个“喜剧”的标签。。。最后看着cook离开的背影，真的觉得好心酸，想到之前他哭着说过为什么所有人都离开我，背叛我。那个时候真的希望这个孩子能有个好结果，找个爱他的姑娘，让他安定下来。但是最后黑心的编剧还是这么让他孤零零的走了。I just so sad that it ends like this.