Skins Themes By Episodes

Below, split by episode, are all the drug related events which were evident in series one of 'Skins':

Episode 1 - Tony
Tony implies using drugs on girls at a party will get Sid sex
Smoking on green
- social use of drugs
- Chris:"if you guys wanna waste your life watching television...can you not think of anything better to entertain yourselves with?" Jal "like...?" Chris "pills"
Sex is linked to drugs, Sid has to use "your balls are your collateral" with the drug dealer (Mad Twatter)
Sid's amount of drugs impresses Cassie
There's a class divide with drugs at Abbie's party
- Can't smoke in the house
- No one seems interested in them compared to a "Skins Party"
Cassie turns down drugs because they make her hungry
Cassie's "pilled up" by the end (she took a "shitload of pills" but doesn't say which, find out later it's sleeping pills)
- Shows lack of self control teenagers are supposed to have when around drugs

Episode 2 - Cassie
Mad Twatter turns up as a supply teacher & demands repayment from Sid for the drugs

Episode 3 - Jal
Clarinet's smashed up as price for not paying for drugs

Episode 4 - Chris
Feeds drugs to his fish
He's used viagra - 15 hour erection
He has a wall full of drug packets he's kept as trophies
Chris explains to a small child how to roll a spliff:
- Chris "so you look for the gummy bits yeah through the paper, lick it and then..."
- Boy "bruv, what papers you using, coz i heard TCI Whites..."
- Chris "nah man, they're um satisfying yeah, but the density's off and there's too much cellulose in the fibre"
- Boy (few minutes later) "I could shift a few ounces of this stuff...if you got a decent supplier"
Anwar remarks Chris' party "feels like speed dating for druggies. I don't know anyone here"
Tony says "I swear Chris gave these bastards [fish] speed. They move faster than normal fish do"
- He's more concerned with the fish than sex
Chris sells his hi-fi for pills which he feeds to the fish (with random objects such as clocks) whilst the footage has been edited to portray the effect drugs had on Chris
- Uses his last pill with fish when it's dead in the toilet
First thing Chris does after being rejected by his dad is light a spliff
- He leave it on his brother's gravestone after removing his mum's flowers - symbolic of his love
Chris takes pills he found in a draw without questioning them and sticks packet to wall like in his old room

Episode 5 - Sid
Maxxie's alternative to going to drama is "get stoned instead"
- Implies pills & drugs makes a good time
Cassie takes an overdose of pills with vodka after rejection by Sid

Episode 6 - Maxxie & Anwar
Sid swallows drugs to smuggle them into Russia
- Joke about Anwar wearing a turban links religion to drugs
Tony implies there's nothing to do without drugs when Sid can't get them out of his system

Episode 7 - Michelle
Tony & Maxxie share a spliff
- It's a sign of Tony's infidelity in Russia
Chris says "it's like an episode of the fucking OC in here"
- Reference to the slapping, arguing, cheating
Michelle turns to smoking when she's upset (as does her mother)

Episode 8 - Effy
Effy's smoking drugs
Tony smokes on his own
- It's not only social smoking
Effy smokes [insert drug here] and injects what is assumed to be heroin but turns out to be "clean pharmaceuticals"
Tony says "what's this, some kind of retro LSD thing?" about Chris' gathering
Effy & friend show effects of drugs/alcohol