| "Skins Rise" | |
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| Skins episodes | |
| Episode nos. | Series 7 Episodes 5-6 |
| Directed by | Jack Clough |
| Written by | Jamie Brittain |
| Original air dates | 29 July 2013 (7.05) 5 August 2013 (7.06) |
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"Skins Rise" is a feature-length episode of the E4 television series Skins. Airing in two parts in 2013, the episode was the third and final episode of the specially-commissioned seventh season intended to bring the series to a close, and the final episode of the series. While in its initial six-year run Skins was a teen drama about the lives of Bristolian teenagers, "Skins Rise" like the two previous episodes, "Skins Fire" and "Skins Pure", is a filmically and tonally distinct drama which revisits one of the show's characters as they face adulthood.
"Skins Rise" focuses on the character of James Cook (Jack O'Connell).
Once a hedonistic womaniser and troublemaker in the third and fourth series of Skins, Cook was last seen fighting his friend Freddie's murderer, the outcome of which was left as a cliff-hanger.
In the present day, Cook is living in Manchester, remaining under the radar from the authorities and society at large. However, he is noticeably more subdued and serious, clearly harrowed by the events of his past and he makes his living peddling drugs in Manchester’s criminal underworld.[1]