This isolation was heightened in the middle of the season, when the sixth episode featured Tony (Nicholas Hoult) off on a college visit by himself, followed by the seventh episode focusing on his sister Effy (Kaya Scodelario), who only briefly interacts with the main cast, as she runs in her own circle (which will serve as the cast for season three, as the second season is the final season for the original cast). So right in the middle of the season, we basically lose most of the characters and their stories.
Perhaps the best way I can describe my flagging interest in this season is that I quickly absorbed the first season through the course of a weekend, then quickly took in the first six episodes of this season coming off the high of the first season. My interest flagged as the season wore on, to the degree that it probably took me as long to watch the final four episodes of season two than it had taken be to watch the first fifteen of the series. Right when I should have been completely invested in the series, I was basically watching just to see it end.
DVD Review: The second volume of Skins is a three-DVD set presented in the 16:9 format. It also features the somewhat fun, but mostly silly Christmas special that never aired on BBC America, along with five more "Unseen Skins" video shorts. Unlike with volume one, these bonus videos don't seem as much like deleted scenes, but rather seem like specially made viral videos apart from any particular episode. Some come off as oddly experimental, like "Tony's Nightmare" or "Cassandra", while others are silly fun like "Musical Auditions" and "Anwar & Sketch". The best of the five is "When Maxxie Met James", as Maxxie was always an underused character. Overall, none of them (including the Christmas special) are worth buying the set for if you've already seen the season and were as nonplussed as I was.
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