Hopefully this will be a lot like the Indian in the Cupboard.
We don’t know if she takes him up on the offer but when he leaves, Emily goes up to her room and pulls out the mysterious wooden box that we saw in Sophia’s locker, Emily must have gone back for it.
At Least We Know She’s Not Talking to the Dead Girl
Emily heads over to Naomi’s with a cute backpack. She’s leaving home, bye, bye, Hey Jude! I mean Naomi! There she is on the telephone acting like someone didn’t just jump off the balcony and die. Laughing like the world is made of sunshine and ponies.
Naomi tells Emily it was her mother on the line but it’s probs one of her lesbros from the rec room, they were probs having a really important conversation about The Con.
Hi, YOU KNOW THE JOKE ABOUT THIS RIGHT
Emily: I’m moving in.
Naomi: Where?
Emily: Here.
Naomi: Isn’t that the sort of thing that people normally discuss?
Emily: I need to, okay?
Naomi: Okay.
A’ight. Naomi says it’s sort of against the rules but what the hell, fuck it, let’s put on some sombreros and make tacos and drink tequila with moustaches while listening to a Mariachi band. No really, that’s what they do. Also, let’s pull out those pinatas and put ’em to work! I wasn’t sure about their relationship before, but you gotta love a chick who’s got Cinco De Mayo at the ready.
Ale-Ale-Hahn-Droooo Alejandro
It’s so hot that Naomi literally catches on fire, actually. They take care of it though don’t worry this won’t get all Firestarter and shit.
Otherwise-Inclined Ladies
After the bottle of tequila, Naomi & Emily decide to take off the sombreros and go to a house party. But first they stand out the front listening to the sweet sounds of breaking glass and vomit, contemplating how good a house party could actually be –
Naomi: This looks kinda terrible.
Emily: Yeah.
Naomi: Fuck it! If it’s terrible then we’ll just go back to ours.
Emily: To where?
Naomi: Ours!
Awww. They give each other a really sweet look. Ours! We own things! Moment shared!
But then we get into the party where the kids are getting crazy! Where did all these friends of Naomi come from.
My Baby’s got a Secret
Inside the party, it’s crowded and before long the lovebirds are separated by other alternatively lifestyled girls. Naomi shouts to Emily that she’ll find her later. FABULOUS.
Emily is then drawn to the solemn radiance of Thomas, who looks unimpressed per ushe, and JJ. Thomas says that it’s the worst party he’s ever been to and while it’s been established in 401 that he doesn’t like fun; JJ explains it’s mostly because Pandora is having a seizure on the dance floor and it’s making Thomas jealous.
JJ: Panda’s giving Thommo a dose of the ol’ “look at me” routine. You how it is, letting your exes know you’re out there, that other people find you attractive. That everything you thought you had together, they could do without it. That they don’t need you.
Thanks for that, JJ. Emily spots Naomi in the corner, she’s drunk and whispering in the ear of the plaid girl from the rec room, they’re both laughing and looking single.
Emily gets upset so she runs off into the bathroom to hide and ’cause she’s upset/crying and this is not a reality TV show. She gives herself a pep talk, willing herself to “let it go, let it go before you screw everything up”.
Cook comes into the bathroom whips it out and starts relieving himself in the bath tub, which is gross, Cook is gross. It’s the perfect time to have a heart to heart.
Emily: Cook, excuse me, I don’t want to see your muff.
Cook: You know it’s not too late to become overcome by desire? I can turn you…
Emily: Fuck off.
Cook: No I’m serious. It’s probably been a while since you’ve seen one of these. Not that mine is totally outstanding. What’s up?
Emily: Do you ever get jealous, Cook?
Cook: If your shag is just a shag then you’re always gonna get your heart ripped out somewhere aren’t ya.
Emily: What do you do about it?
Cook: You just burn, kid. You just burn. You just keep it on the inside.
Emily: Is that possible?
Cook: Yeah. ‘Cause you’re gonna look a bit stupid if you don’t, wouldn’t ya. Look at me love, happy.
Emily: Effy?
Cook: You don’t tell anyone my secrets and I won’t tell anyone any of yours. Or we could both go out in a blaze of glory. Dance, muff monkey?
Aw! Muffmonkey! Cook doesn’t wash his hands but Emily is apparently willing to dance with him anyway.
The dancing gets put on hold though because Cook sees Effy and Freddie making out and rather than talking about his feelings, writing a blog or taking a deep breath, he just punches this other dude who happens to walk by at the wrong moment.
JJ, Thomas and Pandora try to interfere, and Freddie wants to interfere but Effy stops him.
I Can’t Let Him Ruin Your Perfect Almost Lesbian-ish Good Looks
Emily is lying in bed. She can’t sleep. It’s too bad Naomi’s not selling ambien. Then she could fall asleep, wake up, have wild monkey sex, and wake up with strange bruises and then have a new mystery to solve.
I Lay Awake And Miss You Before You Go
Tick-tock-tick-tock. These are the moments of our lesbian lives ticking by like sand through the hourglass of time and the land and the way we were when we were young.
Emily sneaks out of bed, wearing cute little underpants, and gets her phone. Naomi is secretly awake. Emily calls someone to tell them she needs to see them and show them something. That’s what she said hahahaha I hope it’s not Cook and his muff.
No, Emily’s going to meet up with the creepy brother man. She’s talking to herself again, she did this earlier with the box. This is so Capricia-y isn’t it!
Step Back From The Ledge My Friend
Yes, we’re back to the “nightclub” set again. Emily stands at the railing and questions why she did it, which is when Matt shows up. A-ha! And then, also, Naomi’s there too! Party time!
Emily asks “why here?” and he says “I don’t know, this is where it ends” and it’s all a bit morbid. Emily pulls out the wooden box and confesses to taking it from Sophia’s locker.
Do You Want This to Be a Happy 2-Girls-in-Love Storyline or a Destructive-Relationship!
“Can’t we just leave it,” Noami suddenly asks. This is so serious and intense and creepy too.
She wants to know why they can’t leave Sophia’s death alone, and Emily says they just can’t. It’s hard to leave death alone, I think, it has a way of seeking you out… anyhow… Matt runs up to the roof with the wooden box and Emily follows, with Naomi chasing after her pleading that she just forget about it and come home. Way to act unsuspicious, Naomi.
I’m confused I thought it was nighttime [R: Sunrise, Crystal!]
Matt & Emily are on the building’s ledge. Matt’s holding the box, wearily, and Emily just looks generally wind-beaten and hopeful/terrified.
Naomi sees the box & braces herself.
It’s a sketch book. It’s actually beautiful, like Emily might be thinking, She was a good artist and now she’s dead, and then also now suddenly Sophia is real because she made it.
The sketch book will contain the real story or whatever the fuck is going on here.
Don’t Judge a Book By The Size of Its Wrist
And that’s what it is — the complete & total story.
It’s the story about a girl on a train felt alone. She went to an Open Day and she was scared there because she was scared to talk to people. Then she met a blonde girl who says “hi” very open-like. It’s Naomi. She wants Naomi to touch her hand and wants to touch Naomi’s hand. She tells Naomi that she feels so trapped. Naomi said she feels so trapped too, and that she had to tell a lie to go there today. They laugh and go to Naomi’s house. That’s when you pretty much figure out exactly what happened, even though the rest isn’t in the book; Naomi has a girlfriend, Sophia learned that, Sophia was told it was a one-time thing, Naomi went back to Emily like nothing happened, it was Sophia’s first lesbian experience, she got obsessed, she was in love, Naomi wouldn’t even talk to her, she made a shrine, she invented a fantasy life about her relationship with Naomi and her friend Emily and told it to people until it felt true, and then one day at a party she went there thinking She would be there and She was and She had something to sell, and ’cause you’d take anything from her anything at all (clearly), Sophia bought it and took it and then SHE was there making out with Emily and then Sophia was fucked and fucked up so she decided no thanks, I’d rather be dead.
You can see the sketch book story board, Love On A Train, right here. It’s worth it.
Naomi is crying and saying that she’s sorry, she’s tore open more or less. She says she’s sorry in that way that you say you’re sorry thinking that if maybe you just say it loud enough or maybe at the right moment you could take it back.
Matt throws the box and the sketch book off the roof and leaves Emily and Naomi up on the roof with their feelings.
All I Said To You, All I Did For You, Seems So Silly To Me Now
Emily: You’ve ruined it. You don’t want anyone to care. [gets up on the ledge]
Emily: I could be dead in a second. Everything is so fragile. Didn’t you realise that? We were special.
Is she fragile? Is love fragile? Is our ability to cope with them not having any more sex scenes fragile? Oh, I think everything is fragile. Like she said.
Naomi [devastated, aching]: I was scared.
Emily [devastated, resolute] : You’re always scared.
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Emily leaves Naomi on the roof and goes home to her family.
Shelter from the Storm
Her Dad, who I sort of love a little, holds her while she cries. She tells him that Naomi cheated on her. We expect him to tell her to fuck that girl, but instead he tells her that when he was 19, he cheated on her Mom with her Mom’s sister and he did it because he felt trapped.
I think that’s the rub here; it’s a totally unforgivable act, but who among us cannot understand exactly how she felt and why she did what she did, whether we ourselves would have succumbed to it or not.
Mr Fitch: People do stupid things when they’re trapped to act like they’re not trapped.
Emily: Was it ever the same again?
Mr Fitch: It was worse. And then it was okay. And then it got better. And then we got you and we got all the things we love.
Emily: Did she hate herself for taking you back?
Mr Fitch: Hate herself? What for? She didn’t do anything wrong. She hated me though, for a very very very long time. Your mum’s tough though.
Emily: I’m not like her, Dad.
Mr Fitch: That’s okay too.
This is such an unexpectedly beautiful moment. It’s like they’re both vulnerable and they both have feelings and AW JEEZZZ WOMEN!
Emo music sings the [whatever season] of Emily’s discontent as she goes to Naomi’s.
Is she going there to forgive her? Naomi has left her a note on the front door of her apartment that says “I’ll do anything”. She drew a picture too! She must have learned that from Sophia. Oh sorry. Is it to soon? It’s too soon.
In the Door And You’re There and You’re Sorry for the Fight
It’s sweet but isn’t it also weird? I feel like maybe the more obvious place would have been to put it on Emily’s door, since after being cheated you would presume that the chance of Emily returning to Naomi’s house any time soon is quite low. So it makes me think maybe Emily is there to pick something up, not to apologise.
She starts walking away but then stops to when she sees Naomi.
Who is looking down at her.
And then she goes inside.
The Fucking End.
Crystal: Hey you know what tiger? I don’t know where to write this but: I’m finding myself less and less invested in Naomi and Emily’s relationship. I think it’s because they really only figured things out in the last episode of the last season. Now they’re back three months later and we haven’t seen their relationship as a couple develop on screen at all and now I’m meant to be invested in them? I feel like I should be shocked and saddened that Naomi cheated and ruined everything and I’m just not. I just kinda shrugged.
Riese: But look at how blue the sky is! Do human beings ever realize life as they’re living it? every every moment? Crystal I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES!!! Real tears! Okay. Normally, I do really hate it when we pick a series back up and we’re suddenly supposed to believe in this relationship that we haven’t seen develop, like it’s lazy writing or cheating. But, one thing I’ve noticed from the get-go this season is that somehow, for some reason, I do believe that something special has blossomed between them in the interim. That’s one of my favorite things about this episode actually, is how believable it was. That last scene felt really real to me, like I could feel it in my bones. I’m serious. I hope they work this shit out ’cause my heart hurts!
Crystal: Yeah you’re right, it is believable, I mean the reason we started recapping this show last season is because it is a believable lesbain relationship on the tv. So far I’ve believed in Emily and Naomi’s feelings for each other, and I definitely believed their pain in this episode – like my heart totally sunk into my gut in that moment on the roof when Naomi realised that her secret was about to be revealed and there was nothing she could do to stop it. But that was out of sympathy, not out of fear that this is game over for ‘Naomily’. I really enjoyed watching Naomi and Emily’s relationship develop in the last season, but now this season has started and the thought of them breaking up doesn’t phase me at all. Part of me wants Emily to not take Naomi back, to go out and play the field a little. Like with Effy, for example.
Riese: I haven’t figured out yet WHY I believe in it though; I think maybe the actors/writers are just really good at subtext, ’cause for real there hasn’t been that much text. That being said, I feel like the opportunity to take cute makeout screenshots of Naomi & Emily for tumblr would be more likely to arise if they get back together.
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This is a six-seater table Emily, what do you want me to do?
He’s an adult, he’s earned the right to be gay
I’m not supposed to love her but I do because I CAN’T FIGHT THE MOONLIGHT
Also, I totally awww about Emily and her Dad.
omfg
RT
There’s some really hilarious quips in this recap
And man did I feel all ?!?! at the end of this episode
I’ve read Naomi’s episode is the last of the season
So I’ve come to except I will not get the storyline i’ve hoped for by the end of the season, but it’s going to be interesting.
Such an epic recap! I was cracking up so much!!! In this episode, I thought that the few lines that Katie had were pretty hilarious. I don’t know why, but everything she said made me want to laugh/punch her in the face. Also, in the house party scene, when Naomi was whispering in the other girl’s ear, it sounded like she was telling the girl that a guy was looking at her. But maybe it was just wierd sound editing and was supposed to be someone else saying it. Anyways, just wanted to give you kudos for the fabulous recap!!!
Thanks! You know, you’re probably right about what Naomi was whispering into that girl’s ear. Sometimes it’s just more fun to pretend that everyone is a lesbian or a future lesbian.
Haha, that definitely does make shows more interesting. I think I was probably just trying to hang on to any last bit of hope that Naomi hadn’t cheated on Emily.
I was way too invested in their relationship. I thought this episode was really well executed and I totally didn’t see the ending coming. The scene between the two girls on the roof was heart-wrenching. Nice “Our Town” reference.
I almost couldn’t read this because I got stuck just staring at Lily Loveless.
but ps – AWESOME recap :)
lily loveless was so flawless. I could not stop staring at her. :’D
emily’s dad sed to her brother “britney stop sayin f@#k” right?
if so …lmfao!!!!
This episode was trying to give me a heart attack. I saw the lezzie stalker obsessed story being the way things went, not the Naomi cheated and then pretended like the girl didn’t even exist story.
The little brother in a dress reminds me of the little brother in Sugar Rush.
Lynne and I had a great money-making idea- Since the cast/stories are all changed up after 2 years, and this is it for Naomily, we want to pitch a Skins/Naomily movie. It would basically just be Kathryn and Lily making out the whole time.
lol…really
it’s titled simply ‘Naominly make out for 90 mins & it’s awesome
I would watch that movie. All the time.
We are made of win. We should start taking preorders, everyone is going to want to make this movie for/with us ;)
Awesome idea. Save me a seat in the writer’s room.
I was completely hacked by this episode. My feelings were much the same as Riese’s. I believe in their relationship and it’s genuine quality without having seen all the adorable “we’re learning about each other emotionally and sexually” moments. (Although let’s be honest here – it would’ve been MUCH better had we seen these things happen.) And it felt very real and painful to be with Emily as she looked at that book.
I really want them to work. Cause I like to look at Naomi (I like it a lot) and I like Emily’s lisp (it is very cute) and it’d be really nice to see these two make it.
#igetwaytooinvestedintelevision
My gut feeling is that Naomi and Emily are going to get back together and then live happily ever after.
Mine too. That’s how it should be, after all. Maxxie got to run off with his one true love to wherever they were going, so should these two. Any couple of girls that look ~that cute in fake moustaches ought to be together forever.
Brilliant recap. My thoughts, in short –
1. I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed Cook hadn’t washed his hands. But it’s Cook, would be surprising if he did.
2. I got mega vertigo when they were all up on the roof and the camera did the birds eye view shot. I also felt a bit sick because I thought Emily was going to jump.
3. Why does Cook always bounce back from all the shit that he goes through? I kind of want him to completely fuck up and for it to be a little more realistic. Otherwise it’s just the longest self destructive phase ever. Booooriiiing.
To be fair on point number one, also complaints in the article on him peeing in the tub, I feel like there’s an age range where being shittered at a party, and walking in to somebody taking up the bathroom, the shower/tub totally becomes fair game. No? Just me?
…Except Emily wasn’t using up the toilet was she… Oh. KIDS THESE DAYS!
‘Effy, you make that bracelet work. You work it. It would look better removed by a gynecologist from my cervix where you accidentally left it’
hahaahaha wtf, that thing is well past her wrist.
i also thought that photo of naomi and sophia didn’t look like sophia at all, i thought she would be smaller than that? different hair? hence confusion, until the part where they sugar spelled it out.
That comment about Effy and Hot Topic was one of Riese’s – it is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time. I laughed audibly, which is something I rarely do.
It actually took me a minute to read that right, I didn’t get it was meant to be you or Riese talking and was thinking “Freddie has a cervix?! This IS a progressive show!”
If I had watched this alone, in the middle of the night (which is when I usually have the time to watch TV), I would have cried my heart out. Daylight and snarky remarks has a tendency to ruin the mood, but I still loved/hated it.
One of the things that got me genuinely upset is that Emily no longer looks like Emily the Strange (the cartoon character).
I hope they give Effy a bit more of a story line than being in love with pretty-boy. Remember season one? When Effy didn’t speak? Awesome. She’s screwed up. Please don’t fix her.
Well. I’m all up in akimbo over this. I was SO invested in their relationship last season, and I suppose I just kind of didn’t believe them as a couple this episode,from the cute garibaldi scene until the roof scene, which was incredible. I don’ know why, maybe there just wasn’t enough longing, or smiling. Hardly any smiling. boo. Or kissing. I want them to get back together, and Naomi should have to grovel for ages and ages and do all the cooking and buy flowers et etc. (Erm have you seen next episode trailer? COOK??!!!)
p.s. The gay guy in the salon is an weird, brilliant and unnecessary cameo for us in Britain, H from Steps.(pop band circa umm 1997)
p.p.s love the fitch fam
p.p.p.s Sophia wouldn’t have got into that uni anyway, cos it was Goldsmiths, an they defs don’t take girls with massive triangle perms and emo drawing books
I thought that looked like H from Steps!!
She might have got into Goldsmiths, after all the government are encouraging unis to take in more students from underprivileged hairstyle backgrounds.
HAhaaahaha
It was H from Steps.
Pretty damn certain. :)
How funny! Damn I should have picked up on that. I guess he looks a little different when not twirling around to 5,6,7,8.
Great great recap. It was a monumental effort to stifle massive laughter at the bracelet/cervix remark.
I have to side with Crystal with this one, I enjoy the Naomily storyline immensely, but I really struggled to invest in them in this ep. Maybe it’s Naomi’s new haircut, or maybe Emily had a point when she said that Naomi’s always scared. She’s right, like get a new fatal character flaw already Naomi.
Things I loved in this ep:
– Panda dancing
– Effy walking away and revealing outrageous hotpants
– The shots of Emily looking up at the end. I think girls look stunning when they’re looking up at stuff. I remember once at uni, a girl that lived opposite me in halls, we were friendly but not close. We’d been chatting at the top of some stairs, she left and went downstairs (not in THAT way), then when she got to the bottom, she called something up at me and I looked down at her upturned face and I thought “Wow, you’re really beautiful” and I hadn’t noticed it before. Of course I didn’t say anything, but I wished then, as I do now, that we all felt free to tell each other we’re beautiful.
Also, I’m still totally confused by the photo in the uni prospectus. If it was just a random photo someone took, why did they take it (and develop/print it and send it to Sophia) when it had been established that Naomi/Sophia didn’t know anyone else on the open day? Or if it was actually part of the prospectus, there’s no way that a shot taken of them at an open day during the summer would have been in time to get into the prospectus for the next year. I’m usually quite good at suspension of disbelief, but that IRKED me.
Yeah, my suspension of disbelief was super-stretched as well. I think we were meant to believe Naomi/Sophia were photographed in summer 2009 and when the books for fall 2010 came out in fall 2009, that photo was already in it. Maybe it’s just a really efficient and up-to-date catalog company?
The uni catalogue is for entry in 2010, so it would have come out in 2009 so people can decide whether or not to apply there.
Right, we’re just saying that it was awfully quick that Naomi and Sophia *just* went to the Open Day and somehow ended up in the catalog that *just* came out… usually with stuff like that the picture/layout deadline is so early that pics from that summer don’t make it in.
i think it must be a conspiracy
i really love this ep..it was good, but was nearly crying at the end..
LOVE LILY LOVELESS AND KATHRYN PRESCOTT..they look so good together!!!
I loved this episode. I was looking forward to happy lesbians, but I never expected Skins to bring the love; it’s Skins, they do drama best. I loved how real it was; people cheat, and it’s not out of character for Naomi at all, even though it’s a crying shame. Innocence doesn’t always last, but love can. It’s a normal relationship (as far as it can be for a deliberately exaggerated show) and I think that’s important – to show that there’s nothing wrong with them, they’re just in love. How could you possible think of it as abnormal? Love who you love, you know?
I don’t think a lot of the dead stalker girl storyline, that’s twice Skins have gone with a stalker story which I think is a tad daft. But hey-ho, you don’t get everything you want.
Still not enough Katie, though she owned every scene she was in. I think the boyfriend’s an improvement on last series – sweet and trustworthy? Katie’s trying something new there. I actually find the bedroom scene where she asks Emily to stay the most touching of the episode. “I’ll back you up. Emsy, don’t leave me here.” Aww, I get mushy thinking of the twin-bond.
But the roof scene; oh, my heart. It’s okay, they only broke them up this early so they could spend the rest of series getting them back together. Naomi and Cook doesn’t even work – she fancies girls like seriously! – so I will not allow myself to fret.
Aye, I totally agree that it was an early breakup to provide a satisfying reunion later. If they’d have been all happy in this episode, it wouldn’t have boded well. I think that’s why I couldn’t engage as much – I was too cynically detached, thinking about how the whole story arc would pan out.
I also agree that the stalker storyline is a bit tired, and that the Katie/Emily scene was great, and sewed seeds that we will see some good development of her later.
Ugh, I mean sowed.
Naomi probably expected Emily to come by and pick up all her stuff, since she’d moved in and all… therefore reasonable that Naomi put the note on her door.
I think these lines are beyond fabulous. I’ve read and reread them a few times now and I think they are amazingly spot on:
“But also don’t you feel like you can just sense it sometimes? I don’t think people lie successfully all that often, it’s just a matter of if you’ve decided to operate at an honest level with another human or if you’ve already silently agreed to never know the whole truth about someone. Kids tend to prefer honesty; perhaps it has yet to burn them, they tread less wearily towards it.”
i wrote that so thank you!!
i love emily.
i love emily’s dad.
i love “For 1000 pounds she could probably get a LOT of MDMA! Or the Tegan & Sara deluxe set with the ink blots. “
FITCH HUG!
seriously i bet that shit is gonna sell on ebay for like 10000 pounds, those ink blots
I think I’m with Crystal on this one. As much as I’d love for Naomily to persist, I don’t really care too much for them together- not sure why exactly. Loved the Fiesta though! & Cook next episode looks intense!!
Cook is so gross. Just, ew.
Epic recap. Really, I only stopped laughing to be occasionally heartbroken. And Riese’s concern about the future of Naomily tumblrs is legit. They need to work it out!
*Really* not a fan of the chavs, eh? Or people with food related names… (Cook, Sugar) ;)
lol Well-noted.
Maybe it’s the chav-name combo. It’s like I’m extra annoyed by them for putting bad things in association with one of my favorite things- cooking/food.
This recap is spot on! I watched it last week (and its on again right now!)and I was kinda up n down with it (emotionally wise, yeah I’m a soppy romantic, I know, I really must clean the tint of my glasses!),But I was looking forward to this series to see how they developed their relationship, and the early pre-season trailors had quite a few shots of them together…which of course all appeared in pretty much the first 1/2 hour of this episode…crap I thought, does that mean this is the end for them, already…Nooooo?!! Oh and a side note “god damn ad breaks, just as things were getting good on the cargo nets!”
I think there is definitley more going on with Naomi, which I guess will gradually reveal itself. Oh and another side note, I love Emiliy’s and Katies younger brother too, he was awesome in the last series and I really hope he has more scenes. Episode 3 will be interesting, roll on Thursday!
Ha, I’m also glad they did that with the brother, because it seemed a bit weirdly incestuous when he was spying on the twins in the bathroom and stuff last series. Emily looked totally kickass when she was, well, actually kicking him in the arse.
Oh I know, and half the time it did look as though they were actually hitting/kicking the sh*t out of him!! He’s a great little actor, I know its all scripted but its just the way he comes out with things without blinking, cracks me up!!
i just love having a randomly cross-dressing brother in it. it’s just such an arbitrary genderplay and it’s not really used how it is in sitcoms as a punchline, it’s just sort of weird and funny and honest. i liked the scenes with her family; they felt very real to me.
This was a really well-written and funny (in a loling way) recap!
HOWEVER- I think you missed a very hilarious, and I’m pretty sure very intended, reference: when Naoms and Ems split at the party, Naomi says “Stay alive…I WILL find youu!” which is a line from ‘The Last of the Mohicans’. Quite clever (if it was in-fact intended) I think.
You should really read (and hopefully recap) the official Skins novel. It follows the characters during the summer between series 3 and 4. About 60% of the book is centered around Noami and Emily. You get to see Naomily’s relationship develop a bit more. And also might i add the novel is quite explicit and its nice to see what effy was up to during her summer in Italy.
oh interesting, will look into that
Gosh I love Naomily! I was slightly disappointed at yet another lesbian stalker/suicide/murder storyline, but they pulled it off really well. And Lily Loveless (Naomi) is actually a pretty decent actress huh?
I love the Brit TV, they pump out the most amazing stuff.
And I have to say, I love the storyboard for Sophia’s journal/story. It was simply lovely, something I’d love to capture in my own art journalling.
ZOETROPE! That’s the picture carousel spinning thing with the 2 girls kissing! It’s an early mode of animation. I got mine as a kid from the Museum of Moving Images in London and it’s great fun.
Is that Naomi Cook is kissing in the next episode. GAH. that girl kills me a little bit. (Call me!)
i don’t think i’ll be able to handle it
http://www.e4.com/skins/series4/novel-emily.html
Here’s a link to an excerpt of the skins novel.
like i love watching skins, but i LOVE reading the recap way more
what the ef?! naomi and cook? didn’t they try that back in the day, and naomi was all like..i like girl! i hope it’s brief, and i hope ‘naomily’ returns/remains for my viewing pleasure.
All the Tegan and Sara references in this recap make me feel like I’ve finally found my people. (If I had Emily’s mum, I just may have taken the 1,000 pounds. [I couldn’t afford an ink blot.])
Hilarious analysis/commentary.
Great (and heartbreaking) episode.
-WOW. What a long roundabout way of telling a cheating story.
-It would have been better if Naomi almost cheated but had the decency, restraint and love not to cheat.
-Freddie my dear EFFY gave you chlamydia. She is a whore
-I agree with Crystal about this relationship. Usu I am all for the homoship but I can’t get with them for some reason.
-Good recap as alway