Our long haired hero has only one direction in life, the path of true metal! Although no self-respecting metalhead should ever wear a Trivium t-shirt like he did in the first episode. If it ain’t loud and angry, then Richard doesn’t want to know. He’s so hardcore, he wakes up to Bodies by Drowning Pool every morning before he goes through his brutal routine of moisturising. It’s not easy being such a rebel in the suburbs y’know. Help, however, comes from the unlikely source of Mini’s BFF, Grace, who offers to tutor Rich in talking to girls in whole sentences. But is there something more between them? If there’s one thing that Skins never managed to get right before, it was the comedic tone. Previously, broad moments of comedy would stick out amongst the angst and make you wonder if you were even watching the same episode, never mind series. This episode, though, pitches the tone as a slightly whimsical The Inbetweeners and is laugh out loud funny. This episode also has the honour of having the one, and only ever, mention of Godflesh in a teen drama series. It’s ok. You can go off and google them now. Come back when you’re done! If last week’s opener was Mean Girls starring La Roux, then this week is Pretty In Pink with Ozzy Osbourne. When Rich is rejected by his ‘Angel of Death’, only then does he start to realise what he has in Grace. As she says, “Opposites attract.” “That’s magnets. We’re people,” Rich responds. Read our review of the series opener here. Follow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here.
