Effy the same, others the same. As skins season is back, the same somehow is and isn't the exact description giving the circumstances do change as they always are.
There's always an Effy and the other in one's hearts. This is one thing doesn't change. Effy sits quite deep in thought in the middle of a room of the wasted, indifferent, independent the Effy who is observant and insightful of nature of things, and always sides with the truthful ones: friends with Naomi of the justice, with Pandora of the innocent, when everyone shuns in one way or other JJ's honesty, Effy is the only one that embraced it and returned with the same. Now though grown up, Effy still Effy, accasionally rises in defence for poor dom, spitting fire to the mean malice forces. She always stands up in moment like that, moment that a rightful decision need to be made, and on behalf of others and herself, she always made it right. Or she thought she did, with so much convinction that bring us all on board.
The others around her are necessarily complimentary reflections of the multiple facets in the same person. It's no surprise Naomi's now in a bad shape because she stays who she was, after all she's never been the normal kind of smart anyway, she's smart the way Effy is, her judgment piercing through the essence of things, tearing off masks faked by Effy and Cook, and love for who they really are behind the walls, the vulnerable Effy and tender Cook. She even shares Effy's fear, fear for true love that would hurt and kill, therefore she cheats on Emily the same way Effy fucks Cook instead of Freddie. For the unmistakenable alikeness, no wonder she and effy becomes close.
Yet it is their distinction that sets them apart. One of unyielding, the other flexible. The real world tends to favor the latter and leave the former beaten down, as it turns out. I am not sure which one should be accounted more lucky though. Probably sharing my doubt, there is Effy struggling in deep water, shifting between dreams and reality, between crazy dancing floor and big bad world of work. The fancy dance sequence is just a form of ideas, not necessarily happened for real, given that it's highly unlikely that she would still have streighth to go clubbing after an exalting day of work. But we have to give it up for that gesture, a hint at where she came from and still wanna be. Same old Effy, still the same, never change. But the brilliant of the show is how the inside struggle is subtly concealed. Instead of the cliche of pouring out emotions to appeal to the audience, it only suggests to mass of a turmoil underneath a tip of iceburg that being shown. "No one breaks my heart" is what Effy used to say. Rather it could be rephrased: no one sees my heart's breaking. The girl who thinks she knows it all but at times gets herself in situations she couldn't possibly handle. And this time again, she's slipping into a sprialing down without forseeing it.
No matter how Effy's story ends, it is about time. Time to have an end. Those young crazy and rebelious kids, full of attitude and character, coming to age, face their ends. It's better to end them tragically. After all, skins is all about dark and twisted. What is more beautiful than the beauty being ruined. The ruined beauty lives forever. Effy Stonem and the other, under one's skins. My skins.
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