Skins: Cadie (S1E4)

So Skins again, not going to give too long of a rant like a usually do in the beginning of each post so I'm just going to jump straight into the episode:

This episode focuses on Cadie, the kind of psycho drug-addled rehab girl who was supposed to sleep with Stan in the first episode.

Synopsis from MTV about the fourth episode: "Cadie's released from the hospital. Great. Except that Cadie's no better. Her friends want her meds. Her parents want her to be normal. But Cadie's worst problem is love -- an illness that can't be cured with pills."

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This episode is a series of psych consults mixed in between different snippets of her day. She's a very misunderstood girl, both by the world and by herself because she doesn't know what is and what isn't real. Drugs rule her world so much that she doesn't know anything without them, she depends on them to make her happy and normal. But when she starts falling in love with Stan, we see a different side of her. She decides to not take drugs anymore for her "boyfriend" aka Stan.

But her interactions with the other characters are seemingly interesting. When she tells Tony that he can't always do whatever the hell he wants because it's not always going to go his way is ominous and true. And when Tea tells Cadie about how Stanley's using Cadie (again) for drugs this time we see her withdraw into her drug addled world. And she ends up having a sex tryst with Michelle's mom's boyfriend?! Well Stan to the rescue, sort of, but then she gets into a fight with Stan about how crazy she is. And then just pops more pills.

Her parents only add more fuel to the fire. They want her hopped up on drugs in order to "normalize" her, but is that really what she needs? They don't even try to care for her so how is she going to be normal when she's so alienated from her own family? And when her mother, the perfectionist beauty pageant queen said that EMOTIONS AREN'T REAL, we can see that no wonder Cadie behaves the way she does. A part that I am still a bit confused about in the episode is her the hunting situation with her Dad. So he's alive right? But then they show a scene of her "shooting him" while hanging from a true and then jumping to a scene with a psychologist about how her dad is dead. Ensue the weirdo circus story. Confused, I think yes.

Overall, does Cadie know what she's doing when at the psych consults? Is she just craving the attention that each psychologist gives her since she doesn't have any other support system like her totally fail parents and her "friends"?  Is she that socially inept that she doesn't understand the meaning of happy or is she purposely saying things in order for her to get more medication. It doesn't seem like she takes them regularly since we see hoards and hoards of pill canisters in her cabinet, covered with pretty stickers no doubt. But then again she seems surprised when the psychologist asks her about it and tells her that pills AREN'T going to keep people from disappointing her. At the end we see her pop pill after pill in ordered to "be happy."

Other storylines:

Cadie likes Stan.

Stan likes Michelle.

Michelle likes Tony.

Tony likes Tea.

The music from this episode was weird, nothing to rant or rave about but just really whatevers. I liked this song though.

Aluna George -- Disobey

"My day is great now. It got promoted."