Click on Picture to See the Video I have to rant about TV soon - I really have been indulging a lot lately in that sea of sedation. But that is not the point of this post. Skins is a British tv series about some high school students so you know with that combo I have been absolutely dying to see it. Well I just completed season 1 and am over the top. You have to watch this video - it is the last moments of the season and is brilliant. Out of context it will seem like the most bizarre thing - this I know for sure - but know that for the full 3 minutes and 58 seconds of this when I watched it, I cried and cried. Yes I have always loved Wild World but above that it is because I fell head over heels for Cassie - the sparrow with the broken wing of this show. I don't think I can count high enough to keep track of the number of times she says, "That's lovely" or "Oh for sure" but she is flawed and her flaws are radiant. Not only does she have her demons but she brings then straight to the dinner table each and every time she sits down regardless of who else is at the table. She is so fragile and yet set amongst her peers she is the one that is unbending. She never gives into the pressure of the world wanting and demanding to see from her what it wants to see as opposed to seeing what the truth is - even though the truth is not a happy one. She has her moments when the weight of this is crushing but it does not change anything. She cannot change for the world anymore than the world can change for her. As you watch this video (and I hope you do), I know out without the background of the rest of the show you will be thinking, "He cried over this?", but I did.
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