Skins (TV Series) Rise: Part 2 (2013) User Reviews

Goodbye Skins

[Le_Docteur96 · 9/10 · 25 August 2013]

An interesting ending to the Skins "saga" for sure. The first trailer for Skins Series Seven told us "Time Changes Everyone", and I think they hit the nail on the head. The Cook we see here isn't the hyper-active shag-whatever-he-sees Cook from the third and fourth series. He is grown up, more conscious, and, as Louie puts it, "straight down the line, no f**king about...".

It's a strange change for Skins fans, granted. We were so used to seeing Cook as the "Ace of Spades" who charged his way through without a care in the world. But there's something about this new Cook which makes him just as amiable. We still see glimpses of the old Cook (in the pub), and finish on a scene which brings him back into a full circle with the ending of the fourth series, from which he has been hiding from ever since.

It is a contemplative ending the Skins, and perhaps not the best for a fan of the first six series, but if you have grown up like the characters, it makes for quite a poignant ending. It's just a shame it's all over.

It Gets Under Your SKIN

[chocolatepopcorn · 9/10 · 24 June 2022]

Series 7 has very much felt like if Martin Scorcese made films about abandoned youth who grew up and the outcomes their lives had. We heard talks of Skins possibly putting out an actual film and if this is all we get I think they hit the nail on the head. But, I do wish we get some sort of Skins reunion down the line. I think it's pretty safe to assume how most of the characters in the previous generations would have turned out, you even get a note of where Anwar is in generation 2... So naturally the progession of the characters seems to be pretty natural all around when it comes to this final series. It feels all too real. Certainly I wasn't expecting Emma's parents to be gone once she, Charlie and Cook leave on foot but I also didn't expect it to be over by the time Louie found out where they were and left. By the end, we have Cook acting as a Harry Potter figure in a showdown w/ Louie, the Voldemort of the series perhaps, which is all I could be reminded of is how similar this is to that world like in the last Harry Potter film. It's quite harrowing how Cook is the hero of Skins now, he is a different character than he was in generation 2, and it makes sense that he would be selling drugs and not trying to delve into some of the other habits he had as much. That's what normally happens with so-called "wasters". When Cook said "It get under you skin and lives inside ya" I saw the wordplay going on there. It's a callback to the title of this show, I feel, and really just embodies how the experiences of our youth don't really leave us in one way or another. Cook finds a redemption arc in not killing some one who hurt his friend again like in generation 2, I feel at this point he finds some clarity as he says "it's good", most people probably wouldn't find clarity after killing some one, I'm glad Cook did because we surely have seen how big his heart is in series 4 and in these past 2 episodes. He may be involved in some things he shouldn't be he cares deeply for the people around him. Next year will be ten years since the last episode of Skins, hoping to get some sort of reunion or update. I think its also safe to say this series could have gone on longer, but it is well rounded and I think makes sense if u think about it in the end. And even if the writers did do this to save the ratings of the show, it sure did save it, this series has been so so good and probably the best closer of any show ive watched.

Mystery and fantasy.

[burteriksson · 1/10 · 29 November 2019]

This show turned into pretty much mystery and fantasy come the sixth and seventh season. Season five is still watchable, six is something I don't recommend to anybody unless you really HAVE to know what happens to the characters. But fairly be warned: it's going to be bad. The plot gets so weird, ridiculous, stupid and implausible on the sixth season that I really had problems finishing it.

The stories get steadily more and more absurd and unejoyable as the show reaches it end. Watch it till the end of season five and stop it there: you won't miss anything - I guarantee you.

The white knight Cook.

[spkelsekladden · 2/10 · 10 August 2013]

When I first heard that skins had started over again with the good old characters I was excited, than as started watching I got more and more disappointed. The Effie story was not believable at all; the Cassie story was even more stupid. She used to be this quirky but funny basket case, and now all of a sudden she was completely normal, working at a diner and being stalked, than becoming a fashion model.(which was highly unlikely her character) And now the whole story with cook… I guess he's destiny was the least surprising of them all a: mid level drug dealer.

But since when did cook become such a white knight!? In the previous seasons he didn't care about anyone but himself ,now all of a sudden after he witness he's boss kill one of the other mid level dealers, whom was having and affair with he's wife. Cook takes off with the gangsters girlfriend whom he suppose to save, along with he's own girlfriend

Cook was never any smart, so the fact that he's a drug dealer didn't surprise me. But the fact that he's a dumb blue eyed drug dealer seemed a bit too far fetched, I mean back in the old skins days, he was usually the one with the contacts in the underworld. So why portray him so naive now? I'm not surprised by the fact that he got a soft spot for girls, he always thought with he's libido, but the whole: I'm gonna play white knight and save her, is just so not cook Never gonna understand why they always gonna have a dialog with the bad guy, instead of just killing him. The entire second episode seems more like the plot for a bad American movie. Oh yeah, when you hiding in the woods from a gangster who wants to kill you, it is always smart to go around screaming for a missing person. I get that it's someone you care about but still not really logical. Not to mention that cook who always got in a fight back in the days, now fights like girl. They should've just left the old series alone instead of coming up with this crap. But I guess some of the cast was trying to move on from skins, I know that Hannah Murray who plays Cassie wasn't all that interested in going back. But she said she liked the new Cassie( I guess she needed the money)and that's why she came back *******************************Be ware spoiler*********************** When Cook got a chance to end it all he refuses,and let the mob guy live,even though he just killed he's girlfriend and her parents(which didn't make sense)that part just got too stupid,did he really think that the gangster boss wouldn't come after him just cause he managed to beat him in a fist fight?? Get real