As you
might possibly have guessed from the title, this episode is about Michelle, the
girl Tony is dating and Sid is in love with.
We see her uncomfortable home life – she’s currently on her third
stepdad, and this one’s only ten years older than her – and, because this is Skins, we also see her smorgasbord of
relationship drama.
Dating
a Machiavellian psycho like Tony would do anyone’s head in, and Michelle is
reaching her limit. In the episode
between “Sid” and this one, Tony has pulled perhaps his most deal-breaking
stunt yet. Michelle decides to take a
much-need hiatus from him.
Unfortunately, she has a hard time contextualizing herself outside of
the boy she’s dating or sleeping with; in an earlier episode, she describes her
chief skillset as looking “shaggable.”
She views that as her only contribution, her only asset. As such, she doesn’t go about getting over
Tony in what you might call a healthy way.
Sid is
dragged into it, in that super-awkward “I don’t really love you, but I’m angry, and you love me, so you’re
cool with this, right?” way. It’s a bad
road for both of them, and the hope is that they realize how badly they’ve
miscalculated and start to course-correct.
I won’t go into detail, but sadly, while Sid begins to get his head on
straight, Michelle still has a way to go.
A very
short appearance by Mark today: one
quick scene that’s pretty funny and makes excellent use of PC’s reactive
expressions.
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