Tony (Skins series 1)

"Tony" is the first episode of

Plot

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The episode begins with Tony waking up in his room on an average morning. He distracts his angry, overly vocal father in order for his younger sister Effy to get inside unnoticed. He also stares at Miriam, a naked woman changing in front of her bedroom window across the street. Tony continues to irritate his father by locking him out of the bathroom and exiting through the window, leaving the door locked. Tony's father swears a great deal, seemingly constantly much to their mother Anthea's annoyance.

Tony then leaves for

The gang arrive at Abigail's party and Sid meets Cassie, who tells him he is cute, and is delighted that he will not make her eat anything. In Abigail's house, they are told to remove their shoes in order to prevent staining the brand new carpet imported from Iran. They also cannot smoke anything in the house on account of the expensive wallpaper. Tony and Michelle scoff at the dull, lifeless party the wealthy "posh" kids are enjoying and decide to show them up with seductive dancing.

Sid goes to find Cassie, and they discuss her

The group, minus Chris and the Pole, climb out of the submerged car and walk home. Tony and Sid later retire to Tony's bed, with both of them depressed that Sid is still a virgin despite being sixteen, which Tony feels is embarrassing. Sid asks Tony if Chris and the Pole got out of the car at the hospital; Tony says that they did.

Main cast

• Nicholas Hoult as Tony Stonem
• Mike Bailey as Sid Jenkins
• April Pearson as Michelle Richardson
• Hannah Murray as Cassie Ainsworth
• Joe Dempsie as Chris Miles
• Mitch Hewer as Maxxie Oliver
• Dev Patel as Anwar Kharral
• Larissa Wilson as Jal Fazer
• Siwan Morris as Angie

Arc significance and continuity

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Tony's home life

• The family tread carefully around an angry, unpleasant father, Jim, who swears too often and is easily angered beyond reasoning.
• Tony has a younger sister, Effy, who despite being only in Year 10 of secondary school is out partying all night.
• Tony's house looks to be in an upper middle class area of Bristol.

Series relevance

• We are introduced to the series regulars:

• Tony Stonem A
  flirts
  with other girls.
• Sid Jenkins A self-conscious "sidekick" to Tony, forever in his friend's shadow. Sid is a virgin and is in love with Tony's girlfriend, Michelle. Sid sleeps a lot and is doing poorly in college.
• Chris Miles A party-goer and experimentalist with various drugs. Chris does anything for fun and is in love with his psychology teacher, Angie. He has a sweet "schoolboy" love for her and every day offers to carry her books. He even badmouths his own Health Science teacher for making Angie upset.
• Maxxie Oliver A gay dancer and actor whose current ambition is to include a tap dancing routine in Death of a Salesman. Despite being gay, he is best friends with Anwar, who is a Muslim. This unorthodox relationship causes problems toward the end of the season.
• Anwar Kharral A
  Muslim of Pakistani descent. Despite being a Muslim, Anwar consumes alcohol and drugs and hopes to lose his virginity before marriage. His best friend is Maxxie, who is gay, which causes problems later in the series. These, along with his English accent, indicate that Anwar grew up in the United Kingdom
  rather than Pakistan. Whether he is British by birth or immigrated to Britain is never stated.
• Jal Fazer Daughter of (fictional) famous
  grime artist Ronny Fazer, she is a dedicated clarinetist
  . She is portrayed as slightly more conservative and prudent than the others, but not excessively so.
• Michelle Richardson Tony's girlfriend, she has been best friends with Sid and Tony for years. She puts up with continuous insults from Tony including him
  nicknaming
  her "Nips" because "her nipples are funny" and "one breast is bigger than the other". She seems to love Tony more than he loves her despite him being flirtatious with other girls.
• Cassie Ainsworth is an anorexic
  OCD
  and likes to arrange food in people's cabinets. She is spacey and says "wow" very often in a dazed tone and is very blunt. She has a crush on Sid.
• Effy Stonem is Tony's little sister, initially introduced as a recurring character, she later becomes a main character in season three after Tony leaves for university and she begins college. For almost the entirety of the first season, she does not speak; however she is a wild club-goer who drinks, smokes and parties all night despite her young age of fourteen.

• The show's setting was changed from Bristol to an unnamed Eastern seaboard city.
• Tony's surname is changed to Snyder
• Chris's surname is changed to Collins
• Effy is renamed Eura
• Cassie is renamed Cadie
• Sid is renamed Stanley
• Abigail does not appear
• Maxxie is replaced by Tea Marvelli, an out lesbian

Soundtrack

• "Right Thurr" by Chingy
• "Finer Truths, White Lies" by Napalm Death
• "As Serious as Your Life" by
  Four Tet
• "Dirt" by Death in Vegas
• "On the Street Where You Live" by Nicholas Hoult
• "Bounty Hunter" by Barrington Levy
• "Drop Ya Thangs" by The Game
• "Star Guitar" by The Chemical Brothers
• "All Around the World" by Lisa Stansfield
• "Monkey Ska" by Derrick Harriott
• "Totally Wired" by The Fall
• "Flesh and Bone" by Brendan Benson
• "Witness (One Hope)" by Roots Manuva

References

External links

• Skins at Channel 4
• Skins at E4