Katie’s Skins episode featured the angry, conceited redhead finally learning to find herself and bring herself down to earth. And it’s about time.

Yet another week and another episode of Skins, with this time seeing bitchy, ill mannered Katie Fitch facing her own personal dilemma. With a very strange, almost unstable nurse delivering some bad news to the young teen; that she cannot conceive, Katie’s world came crashing down on her, and she thought it couldn’t get any worse. Although Skins is heavily criticised for being extremely unrealistic in terms of the teenage characters we see on screen and the crazy, dramatic lifestyles they lead, Skins is nearly always successful when focusing on realistic, emotive storylines, which the gang often struggle at dealing with. Divorce is a common problem these days in the UK, and Katie’s episode shows perfectly how most teenagers feel in this situation; helpless, emotional and often finding it hard to understand just what went wrong.

Katie sees her home and personal situation affecting her personal life and job so much to the point she gets fired, smokes marijuana and kisses her friends recent ex-boyfriend, Thomas. Her family becoming bankrupt, losing their house, and being forced to move into her twin sisters lesbian lover’s house then follow this, making the storyline seem far fetched to the audience and almost soap opera like. Naomi’s appalling acting, yet again, does nothing for the situation, making it seem a lot less serious by drawing attention away from the recent mishap between her and girlfriend Emily. As usual, a casual barbecue cannot go ahead without the use of drugs and a heavy use of alcohol. This episode of Skins is not as typical as the previous, over exaggerated ones. Instead, this episode is a lot deeper and serious with Katie effectively depicting the situation of many young girls, making viewers at home aware of the common problems faced by them; pregnancy scares, a dysfunctional family and struggling to cope alone.