The cool thing that SKINS does is this- they wait until the end of the series to do a formal names-with-faces credits in a little closing montage for the season finale, and it's quite affecting. I don't know if it would work so well on American television. Gossip Girl could do it, maybe, but I doubt it.

Best closing credits shot ever, by FAR:


I want to know how they got her hair so big.

I WANT

a. highlights
b. to be a size 4
c. Easter candy
d. spring
e. beaches
f. the $5.99 artichoke dip to not make me sick (but I think it has to go the trash)
g. a couple of lip glosses (what else is new?)
h. an LJ layout that I actually like

+ also Kaya Scodelario as Effy Stonem in "Skins" makes smoking look like the best idea ever. Same with big hair and raccoon eyes. The girl is a chameleon, I think. She can look one way and then another, and she's quite pretty on her own, but her face is an amazing canvas for different sorts of makeup

+ I got some spring clothes today and it's like, "come soon, warm weather, so I can wear them." A couple of colorful dresses, some pants that fit me. I will be rocking navy pants this spring and whatever, sometimes you can't always wear black or gray or a skirt.

Just when I think this show [skins] can't possibly top its level of visual awesome-ness, it goes and does this scene:



Here's what's most bothersome about the MD situation: say he does get a girlfriend, I totally do get left in the dust. There's really nothing else between us, because the whole thing is really new, and I was so proud of myself for trying to be friends with him, and I never thought about anything tearing that to pieces. (And alright, part of me still wishes he could fall for me, but after Thursday night, that's officially dashed) So there you go. Obviously nothing's happened yet, but it gets me to thinking, you know?

Off to cook and curl my hair and paint my nails black or something. And maybe watch "Night of the Hunter," which I'm kind of nervous about because I've heard that Robert Mitchum is mega-creepy, but it's an old movie, so I don't know if it's "give me nightmares" creepy or just "old-tyme movie" creepy. It's the movie where he's got "love" and "hate" written on his knuckles, or maybe tattooed.