Elias: Yousef, Would You Do The Honor Of Becoming My Brother In-law?

correct me if i’m wrong, but why haven’t we had any skam characters with social anxiety? i think it’s the most common thing teenagers are dealing with, and it would be nice seeing someone dealing with everyday situations from that point of view. having no friends, hiding in the bathroom, seeking validation, not being sure in themselves, not knowing how to interact with strangers, public speaking, etc. is not at all represented enough

The endgame

Here is the second post of Skam España appreciation week for International Women’s Week (yes I know it’s just a day, blablabla, I turn it into a week every year). In this post I wanna focus on how groundbreaking it is to have a show say that teen girls’ friendship, that sorority, is necessary to lead a full life for any woman.

I think that the message comes across the best in Season 1, where Eva is lost because her only meaningful relationship is Jorge, I love how much she craves for friends of her own, when she stares at Inés and her friends, it’s not just regret, it’s want, she doesn’t just regret screwing things up with Inés, she WANTS friends.

We are thought from a very early age that we’ll only be complete if we find a partner (male, of course) and a family, otherwise we are useless to society, we are only here to breed to have children and be the perfect moms and wives, Disney movies, the books they make us read at school, when people ask us about our futures… It all points to the fact that we are useless without a husband and a bunch of kids and, don’t get me wrong, if you want this, that’s totally valid, I want it, maybe not the husband part of it but having a partner and a family is one of my goals in this life, but it’s not my only goal and, to society, it should be and the fact that it isn’t makes me a bad woman, conniving, twisted and mean. I’m not, trust me, but Skam España is the only show that I can think of that centres its main message around telling young girls they can be more than submissive women with a bunch of children wrapped around their skirts.

Eva was lonely with Jorge and only with her friends she found the will and the strength to be herself, to leave a toxic relationship (yes it was toxic in a different way than Miquel and Nora’s was, but it was toxic nonetheless), to smile again and to fight for herself. She’s been happy since, she’s had ups and downs like every human, but she hasn’t been as sad, as destroyed as she was in season 1 because she’s got people to go to when things get rough.

Cris wouldn’t have been able to fight for Joanna without them, every time something bad happened, she’d go to her friends and talk it through and ask for advice and they’d help her, they’d tell her they love her and that she was able to do anything and she’d believe them and go back to Joanna.

The girls love each other and give each other strength they are ENDGAME, their endgame is not Jorge, is not Joanna, is not Hugo or Alejandro or whoever Amira’s love interest ends up being, they are eachother’s endgame, their relationship helps them become better people, helps them open up their minds and their hearts and makes them braver and bolder and feel like they’ve got everything under control. And, most important, lets them fly, experiment, have different experiences, love other people, get their heart broken all of that while knowing they have a safe space to ball back onto. They can safely become fully fledged human beings and that’s the healthiest thing in the world.

Okay, so here’s my second post, I hope you’ve enjoyed it, if you have anything to say you are, as always, very welcome to say it.

Can you guys even believe that 3 months ago, we didn’t have the Balloon Squad in our lives? Like we didn’t know a Yousef Acar, Elias Bakkoush, Muttasim Tatouti, Adam Malik, and Mikael Øverlie Boukhal??

Thank you Julie for these boys ❤️

SKAM ESPAÑA T3 IS BASICALLY THE MOVIE FEAR

Both in the movie and the clip when the characters first meet the guys Miquel and David both act super suave and within barely a minute of talking they convince Nora/Nicole (lol didn’t even realize that connection) to go off with them. It should also be mentioned that in doing so the both girls leave their friends and go with the guy. The guy then takes them to a semi remote place basically where there are less people and they both make them seem like really put together guys and even make up false stuff to try to make the girls like them. David with his family background and Miquel possibly with the musical stuff.

Another big similarity is that when Nora and Nicole both bring up how late it’s and that they probably should be heading home Miquel and David both distract them Miquel saying don’t look at it, it doesn’t matter, and saying that it’s actually 9:45 while David physically turns Nicole’s watch back so she wouldn’t know the time. Both are manipulating techniques to get them to ignore the fact that it’s way too late and they should probably be heading home instead of continueing to hang out with them.

Miquel and David both kiss the girls without asking and both Nora and Nicole push them back and then leave to go home.

And then the very next time Nora/Nicole see the guys is when they show up unwarranted to their school. I should also mention at this point that both David and Miquel are older than their female counterparts and are out of high school so they have no business being there and they also found the address themselves. David and Nicole then hang out while Nora and Miquel make plans to go the musical together.

Okay this is going to make not a lot of sense if you haven’t seen the clip because I’m not going to go into detail about what happened in this scene because it’s a little NSFW but just know that Nicole and David are on a rollercoaster and that Nicole feels an euphoric feeling for the first time. WHICH IS SO FUCKING SIMILAR TO THE TRAILER. Because that’s basically what Nora’s saying!!!

Lastly stuff that could be paralleled but we don’t know yet is that later in the movie David sees Nicole hug her best friend who’s a guy (their relationship is platonic) and gets super jealous for no reason and starts to beat him up which leads to Nicole and David breaking up. Depending how closely España follows the og (which doesn’t seem like a lot) this scene could totally be the fight scene. It could play out differently but either Miquel or Alejandro could get jealous of the other and then a fight breaks out. Lastly later in the movie David actually sexually assaults Nicole which would parallel if Miquel is Nico and how he is most likely Nora’s assaulter

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Flirting? I’m… fixing dinner.

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Elias Bakkoush