Skins: Chris (S1E3)

Why hello hello Skins, we meet again.

So not going to lie, I feel like a dork/traitor/idiot/loser for being excited to watch this week, but honestly I super heart last week's episode with Tea so I'm kind of curious what's next. Oh yeah, and hopefully the music is BOMB again (a couple of Lawrence Arabia songs, which I am totally in love with thanks to Skins, oh yes, and The Drums <3). Seriously in love the music that they've been playing! ( Oh yeah, and MTV is being pretty damn gracious by putting a lot of FREE songs on their site to download! Super cool!):)

Quick breakdown of the characters since we still don't know a lot about each character's background which will obviously come in the latter episodes but in case you want to know...

1. Tony Synder (episode 1)
2. Tea Marvelli (episode 2)
3. Chris Collins (episode 3)
4. Michelle Richardson --> Tony's "girlfriend"
5. Stanley Lucerne --> The virgin
6. Cadie Campbell --> The drug crazy suicide/rehab girl that Stanley was supposed to sleep with
7. Daisy Valero --> The Asian girl, I'm guessing Pilipino?
8. Abbud Siddiqui --> The Indian looking guy?
9. Eura Synder --> (Tony's sister)

So this week centered around Chris, we kind of don't really know anything about him. Yeah, we know about Tea and Tony mainly from the past 2 episodes and a LITTLE BIT about the other characters, see above. I remember about Chris is when he called back his teacher's ex-boyfriend, her name is Tina, like a boss. Damn. Super legit. Also, kind of excited to see how the relationship between Tea & Tony evolves...

Well quick synopsis about this episode: $1000, house party, and his mom has left him...forever?

CHRIS:

• Drugs galore
• So Chris took some Viagra and has had an erect penis for 15 hours. Crazy shiz dude. I read that MTV had to pull some scenes from this episode because they were "too mature" and I think that it involved a penis pump. So I guess erection pills are ok but a penis pump isn't? (Well penis pumps were covered on another similar show, Degrassi, which has PG-13 ratings (definitely not MA status) so I don't get what the big deal is about it is on this show)
• Party central
• Chris + Tina aka HIS TEACHER! He's got the hots for his teacher. And he's so adorable and sweet when he's talking to her and asking her to stay at the party. Love it. :) Is he substituting his mother's misplaced love on Tina? Anyways, she freaks out at his "third leg" hahaha.
• Side note at the party about the other characters
• Tea + Tony: Tea blows off Tony when he tries to talk to her..their relationship is getting complicated and it hasn't even started yet.
• Later on at the end when Tea exposes herself, Tony gets all uncomfortable...Can they please get together or like figure things out? I like them. :)
• Stanley + Michelle: Stanley's still a virgin...even though he told all his friends he's not because he's still supposedly sleeping with Cadie. And he's in love with Michelle...and freaks out when he sees her naked on the bed and is asked about the symmetry of her breasts.
• Cadie + Stanley: But does Cadie like Stanley? Or does she just pity him because she knows that he can never have Michelle. She asks him on a date. Cute. :) Maybe he can get over Michelle?
• Tony + Michelle...more interested in the fish in Stanley's room than boning Michelle. What is up between the two of them?
• Mommy issues
• Where the hell is his mom? From the summary that MTV gave us online we already know that Chris' mom is leaving him for good, not just for a couple of days...how is he going to cope with it? And why did she leave?
• He starts to realize that his Mom really left him when she sees that all of her stuff is gone and reality sets in...but he can't really admit to himself or his friends...
• He knows that she's still around somewhere because she left flowers by Peter's grave. We see that Chris leaves his blunt on Peter's grave so what does that mean? Has to be something significant like is he going to quit drugs or did his brother die from drugs? Hopefully we find out sooner rather than later.
• No more money!!
• His Mom left his $1K...with a note that said she'd be back in a few days.
• Blew all his cash throwing a party...he can't even pay the pizza guy the morning after :/
• What is he going to do about the money situation?!!! And we see that he's desperate when he's trying to sell back the stereo system...Yikes! But to escape the reality that he essentially has NO MONEY he decides to drug up. 
• And the homeless guy in his house is really creepy and he gets kicked out of his own house. I feel so helpless for him already.
• HELP HIM
• Friends 
• Donating the clothes, that was too cute. Especially with his midriff t-shirt and mismatched shoes.
• We see Daisy trying to help him out with his problems and how he kind of tells his problems to her to release all his pent up anger. And we learn about the best day of his life involving his brother Peter. I wonder what happened to him.
• Tina
• The only one who can really help him. He's staying over at her place and she bought him a fish. So sweet. :) There's so much sexual tension between the two of them I wonder what's going to happen.
• Dad
• His Dad has the perfect little suburban life unlike where Chris used to live. We find out a little about his Mom? She's "getting help" for another one of her "episodes."
• Did she go crazy because Peter died?
• Problems: we hear a kind of muffled background noise of a fight between his Dad and his stepmom about how he doesn't want to help him. I wonder what happened?

Overall:

Chris jokes around a lot and acts like he doesn't take his life seriously but inside there's so much turmoil with his parental issues, drug behavior, money problems, and his feelings for his teacher. He is such a complex character and a 40 minute show can't even begin to explain the problem that is his life. I'm excited to see more, how these issues will resolve and whether or not he will retreat into a drug filled fantasy OR face reality. 

Quick question: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE SKINS IS SUPPOSED TO BE LOCATED??? IT WAS FILMED IN CANADA BUT THEY DON'T REALLY TELL US WHERE.

This week the music was pretty good, I really enjoyed this song, a little different than the other music that was featured so far, so here we go:

Luck-One & Dekk -- Coulda Been Me (ft. Randa Smith)