Skins: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Skins Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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Tony and Maxxie
Feb 11, 2008
Maxxie is looking after Tony, but he has his own problems. He desperately wants to leave college and follow his dream to become a dancer, but his dad is giving him hell about it.
Sketch
Feb 18, 2008
Maxxie has a creepy feeling that someone is watching him. Someone close by. A hot boy maybe? No such luck! Sketch is Maxxie's stalker. She's prepared to do anything to get her man,
Sid
Feb 25, 2008
Sid hasn't coped at all well with the fact that his best friend Tony is a shadow of the man he was and that Cassie has moved away to Scotland, where as far as he can tell, she is h
Michelle
Mar 3, 2008
Michelle's mum has gone and done it again - another new husband. Before Michelle knows what's happening, her manipulative new step sister Scarlett is invading her life, co-opting h
Chris
Mar 10, 2008
It's been a long road full of tribulations, drugs, petty theft, non attendance and resounding failure for Chris at college. So when the CCTV cameras catch him shagging Buck Tooth i
Tony
Mar 17, 2008
Tony's world is a strange one. Isolated and alone, he is desperate to find the way back to himself. He tries to act normal, but bumping into Sid and Michelle at a club sends him sp
Effy
Mar 24, 2008
Effy takes care of her depressed mom, tries to restore the relationship between Tony and Michelle, and mentors the new girl at school.
Jal
Mar 31, 2008
Jal has a secret so big, she can't tell anyone until she works out what to do about it. But as revision, music school auditions and needy best friends press down on her, the secret
Cassie
Apr 7, 2008
What's the matter with Cassie? She's back together with Sid, Chris is on the mend, Michelle and Tony are back with each other and exams are finally over. But can Cassie be happy?
Final Goodbyes
Apr 14, 2008
It's the day of final report cards, and the friends decide not to look at their grades until they've said goodbye to Chris.