Skins Fury
Last week was the second from last episode of Skins, and maybe for many the very last episode there and then! After all Skins fans witnessed their much loved star Freddie, a character played by Luke Pasqualino, get beaten to death with a baseball bat by his girlfriends psychiatrist – forums on the internet were bombarded with comments full of anger towards this brutal act.
According to the Sun, Skins fans were not the only ones who felt that last week’s episode was wrong and that there was no need for it…many different mental health charities also “slammed the E4 show”.
The only motivation that Dr John Foster (the psychiatrist) had in killing Freddie was that he became very attached, obsessed even, with Effy Freddie’s girlfriend and after he told Dr Foster to back off – it obviously resulted in his John’s mental state to determine that there was only one solution left and that was to kill of the problem!
This murder was the first that Skins series has ever done and it definitely didn’t go down very well with the viewing public, so much that even 1 fan wrote on a forum,
“There was no need to do that to Freddie. You’ve definitely lost your fans.”
Plus it is quite true what a woman from Young Minds said, “It could stop young people getting help.” It certainly could stop that, especially as so many young teens watch this series.
Although there seemed to be hundreds of unkindly comments about the latest episode on the internet, Channel 4 themselves spoke out and said that in fact there was literally only 11 complaints made due to the fact that viewers expect storylines such as this.
They were quoted as saying, “The audience expect adult content.” Seeing as this week’s episode is the finale to these last 2 series of Skins I suppose they had to make the ending more dramatic and entertaining although I wonder how many fans will really ‘NOT’ watch the final episode?
