Michael Tomasky on Santom’s Gay Love the Jan. 8 Debate

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• PROTAGONISTS    TONY STONEM  ANTHONY "TONY" STONEMPLAYED BY: NICHOLAS HOULT CENTRIC EPISOS: "TONY" (SERI 1), "TONY AND MAXXIE", "TONY" (SERI 2) THE ACE: TONY IS ATHLETIC, CHARMG, BRILLIANT, A GREAT SGER, AND ATTRACTIVE TO BOOT. MAXXIE EVEN LAMPSHAS WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR ENUNTER WHILE RSIA, AND TONY IS TERRIBLE AT GIVG HEAD:"WOW, WE'VE FALLY FOUND SOMETHG YOU'RE NOT GOOD AT."AFFABLY EVIL--> AMBIGUOLY BI: IT'S NEVER MA CLEAR WHETHER HIS DALLIANCE WH MAXXIE IS JT AN EXPERIMENT OR IF HE'S ACTUALLY BISEXUAL. MICHELLE'S MENT BELOW ONLY ME AFTER THE FACT. ANYTHG THAT MOV: AS MICHELLE SAYS, "HE SLEEPS WH EVERYONE, EVEN BOYS!" THE ATONER: IN SEASON 2, HE ONLY HAS MAXXIE AND EFFY ON HIS SI, AS HE'S ALIENATED ALL OF HIS IENDS. HE SPENDS MOST OF THE SEASON PROVG THAT HE'S CHANGED. BIG BROTHER INSTCT: HE WILL BE A DICK TO ANYBODY ELSE, BUT HE WILL LOOK AFTER EFFY. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: MALY TO ADULTS: HE N CHARM HIS WAY WH MOST OF THEM. ONLY A FEW ADULTS AND HIS IENDS KNOW THAT 'S ALL JT AN ACT. BREAK THE HGHTY: IN LATE SEASON 1. FIRST HIS IENDS BEE FED UP WH HIS BEHAVR, THEN JOSH HS HIM WHERE HURTS LERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY, AND FALLY THE B FISH THE JOB.BYRONIC HERO--> CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: HIS ACCINT AT THE END OF SERI 1 MEANS TONY STARTS THE NEXT SERI A MORE VULNERABLE PLACE, SHOWG SOME HIDN PTHS TO HIM. DEPRAVED BISEXUAL: HE IS AT LEAST BI-CUR AND FELY PRAVED. THE PROBLEM WH HIS ENUNTER WH MAXXIE ISN'T SEEN AS BAD BEE THE LATTER IS A BOY; 'S BAD BEE TONY HAS A GIRLIEND AT THE TIME AND BEE HE OBJECTIFI MAXXIE TO A TO-GO GAY FOR EXPERIMENTS. DID NOT GET THE GIRL: IT'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT TONY AND MICHELLE'S BREAK UP IS PERMANENT AS THEY ARE GOG TO DIFFERENT UNIVERSI. EXPERIMENTED COLLEGE: DURG THE TRIP TO RSIA, HE HAS A LIAISON WH MAXXIE. FOR THE EVULZ: APPARENTLY TONY MS WH OTHERS' LIV AND EMOTNS BEE HE N'T THK OF A BETTER ENTERTAMENT. MR. FANSERVICE: THE SHOW FELY MAK KNOWN THAT NICK HOULT HAS A MAGNIFICENT BODY. EVEN THE GUYS WANT HIM: SUBVERTED THAT WHEN TONY ACTUALLY GETS ROUND TO SLEEPG WH MAXXIE, TURNS OUT THAT SOME GUYS DON'T WANT HIM AFTER ALL. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: IN SEASON 1. WHEN HE ALIENAT SID AND MICHELLE, TURNS OUT THAT NOBODY ELSE WAS THAT BIG A FAN OF HIM. GENI BOOK CLUB: THE BOOKS HE READS ARE OFTEN THEMATILLY RELATED TO WHAT HAPPENS THE EPISO; FOR STANCE, HE READS NIETZSCHE SID'S SERI 1 EPISO, WHICH FEATUR TONY AT HIS MOST ÜBERMENSCHIAN, AND HE'S READG *ORANG ARE NOT THE ONLY F*, ABOUT A GIRL G TO TERMS WH BEG A LBIAN, THE EPISO WHERE HE EXPERIMENTS WH MAXXIE. HEEL–FACE TURN: ALMOST RULTED REMPTN EQUALS DEATH THE SEASON 1 FALE, BUT HE REVERED. HEEL REALIZATN: AT THE END OF THE FIRST SEASON, HE REALIZ HOW MUCH OF A BASTARD HE'S BEEN AND TRI TO MAKE UP FOR , ONLY TO GET H BY A TCK. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: HAS THIS DYNAMIC WH SID. TONY KISS SID ONCE ON THE LIPS AND ONCE ON THE FOREHEAD, THEY SLEEP NAKED OR MOSTLY NAKED THE SAME BED, AND TONY CRI WHEN HE'S SENDG SID OFF TO NEW YORK TO FD CASSIE. INNOCENTLY INSENSIVE: IN SEASON 1. HE HONTLY BELIEV THAT HIS MSG WH OTHERS' LIV MAK THEM TERTG AND IS DLY SURPRISED THAT HIS VICTIMS DON'T SHARE THIS OPN. INSUFFERABLE GENI: WH ONE EXCEPTN; SEE SMALL NAME, BIG EGO BELOW. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: EVENTUALLY, HE BE A SWEETHEART UNR A MASK OF DICKISHNS, AS OPPOSED TO JT BEG A PLETE DICK WH NO SWEET SI. LACK OF EMPATHY: A MAJOR PART OF HIS CHARACTER SERI 1; THE FOLLOWG SERI, HIS CHARACTER VELOPMENT IS ABOUT HIM BREAKG OUT OF THIS. LASER-GUID KARMA: JOSH ORCHTRAT THIS FOR TONY. AFTER TONY BREAKS UP JOSH AND MICHELLE BY STEALG HIS PHONE AND FILLG WH PORN OF HIS SISTER, THEN SENDG TO CHELLE, JOSH LUR OUT TONY'S SISTER, DGS HER UP, AND REF TO LL AN AMBULANCE UNLS TONY FUCKS HER RIGHT THERE AND THEN. AFTER BEATG THE HELL OUT OF TONY AND MAKG HIM BEG, THOUGH, JOSH ENDS THE “LSON” AND LETS THEM GO. LOOK BOTH WAYS: HOW HE GETS H BY A B AT THE END OF SERI 1, THOUGH HE GETS BETTER. KILLED MID-SENTENCE: HE'S ALMOST KILLED BY A B THE FALE OF SEASON 1. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: NO MATTER WHAT, HE ALWAYS, ALWAYS MATAS NTROL OF A SUATN. EXCEPT WHEN HE DON'T, WHICH UALLY MEANS SOMETHG HAS GONE TERRIBLY WRONG. THE MASOCHISM TANGO: WH MICHELLE. THE TWO NSTANTLY HURT ONE ANOTHER, BUT THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO GRAVATE TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER TIME AND AGA. MORALY PET: EFFY IS HIS. SHE'S MORE THAN ONCE PONRED TO BE THE ONLY PERSON TONY TLY R ABOUT, AND SHE TURN HAS BIG BROTHER WORSHIP FOR TONY. AFTER TONY'S ACTNS ENDANGER EFFY, AND EFFY HERSELF EXPRS DISAPPROVAL WH THE WAY HE TREATED MICHELLE, TONY BEGS TAKG STEPS TO MAKE THGS RIGHT. NIETZSCHE WANNABE: LAMPSHAD SID'S SEASON 1 EPISO, WHERE TONY IS ACTUALLY SEEN READG TH SPAKE ZARATHTRA. REALLY GETS AROUND: JAL REC AN IMPRSIVE LIST OF TONY'S NQUTS AT ONE POT, AND PROBABLY ISN'T PLETE. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: MOSTLY AVERTED, AS TONY TLY IS AN INSUFFERABLE GENI, BUT IS IMPLIED THAT HIS SEXUAL PROWS IS NOT WHAT HE BELIEV TO BE. ACRDG TO MAXXIE, GIVG HEAD IS THE "ONE THG [TONY'S] NOT ACTUALLY GOOD AT," AND SEASON 2 MICHELLE SAYS THAT SID IS THE FIRST PERSON TO MAKE HER E, MEANG THAT TONY NEVER HAS. SO WHILE HE MAY BE GOOD AT GETTG PEOPLE TO HIS BED, HE'S APPARENTLY NOT SO GREAT AT SATISFYG THEM ONCE THEY'RE THERE. SMUG SNAKE: IN THE FIRST SEASON TONY SEEMS TO BE NVCED THAT HIS CHARM, TELLIGENCE AND PERCEIVED SUPERRY OVER HIS IENDS GUARANTEE THAT HE N GET AWAY WH BEG AN ASS. THEY DON'T, AND BY THE END OF THE SEASON HE MANAG TO HAVE ALIENATED EVERY SGLE ONE OF THEM - EHER PERSONALLY OR THEY CHOOSE TO SI WH SID AND/OR MICHELLE OVER HIM.SOCPATHIC HERO--> TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME: HIS LOOKS FELY PLAY TO HIS ADVANTAGE. TOOK A LEVEL KDNS: FROM A BORRLE SOCPATH TO A GENUELY GOOD PERSON WHO ACTUALLY R ABOUT HIS IENDS BEYOND G THEM FOR AMEMENT. TOXIC FRIEND INFLUENCE: SID PARTICULAR DO SOME STUPID THGS BEE OF TONY. THEN AGA, TONY (AT FIRST) JT DON'T RE ABOUT OTHERS' WELL-BEG.THE VAMP: MALE EXAMPLE.--> VILLA PROTAGONIST: INIALLY; SEASON 1 PATS TONY AS A PLETE AND UTTER JACKASS WHO ONLY TREATS OTHER PEOPLE LIKE GARBAGE FOR HIS OWN FUN. SEASON 2 BRGS HIM DOWN A PEG.WICKED CULTURED-->    MICHELLE RICHARDSON MICHELLE RICHARDSONPLAYED BY: APRIL PEARSON CENTRIC EPISOS: "MICHELLE" (SERI 1), "MICHELLE" (SERI 2) BETTER AS FRIENDS: WHILE SHE AND SID DO TRY TO DATE, THEY REALIZE THEY'RE NOT PATIBLE ROMANTILLY AND END UP AS IENDS, AND PROBABLY CLOSER THAN THEY WERE BEFORE THEY GOT VOLVED. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SHE'S GENERALLY RATHER GENTLE AND NICE TO MOST EVERYONE, BUT SHE HAS A PRETTY SILVER TONGUE THAT SHE'S UNAAID TO UNLEASH ON THOSE WHO GET ON HER BAD SI. THIS IS PARTICULARLY TE WHEN MICHELLE BEATS UP TONY FOR CHEATG ON HER WH MAXXIE AND NOT TELLG HER. DID NOT GET THE GUY: BY SERI 2 SHE NCLUS THAT SHE AND SID ARE BETTER AS FRIENDS AND 'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT SHE WON'T GET BACK TOGETHER WH TONY BEE THEY ARE GOG TO DIFFERENT UNIVERSI. EMBARRASSG NICKNAME: "NIPS," TONY'S LS-THAN-FLATTERG NICKNAME FOR HER. GENI DZ: THOUGH SHE'S EASILY DISMISSED BY MANY OF THE CHARACTERS - AND EVEN BY HERSELF - AS A VAPID PRETTY GIRL, MICHELLE IS ACTUALLY A PRETTY GOOD STUNT, PECIALLY WHEN TO LANGUAG. IN THE GENERATN FALE, THIS IS SOLIDIFIED BY MICHELLE TIEG WH TONY FOR THE BT A-LEVEL GRAS THEIR GROUP OF IENDS, SURPASSG EVEN JAL. HEROIC BSOD: WHEN TONY GETS H BY A B AT THE END OF SEASON 1. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH JAL. THEY'VE BEEN PALS SCE 4TH GRA AND ARE EACH OTHER'S SUPPORT SYSTEM. INSECURE LOVE INTERT: TAK GREAT PRI DATG TONY, BEE "HE ULD HAVE ANYONE" BUT CHOOS TO BE WH HER; AND THAT'S VALIDATG SELF APPARENTLY. LOVABLE ALPHA BCH: MICHELLE BOTH TONY'S GIRLIEND AND FEMALE UNTERPART. THOUGH SHE N BE SNIPPY AND SELF-ABSORBED, SHE'S VERY GENUE AND PLEASANT TO PEOPLE. NICE GIRL: IS GENERALLY PLEASANT TO BE AROUND, AND IS EVEN BT IENDS WH THE BLACK AND NERDY JAL. PARENTAL NEGLECT: HER MOM IS NSTANTLY BLOWG HER OFF AND IGNORG HER PROBLEMS BEE SHE'S DISTRACTED BY HER BOYIENDS. ROMANTIC FALSE LEAD: SID HAS A CSH ON MICHELLE AND THERE'S A LOT OF BUILDUP TO THE IA THAT HE WOULD BE A BETTER BOYIEND FOR HER, CULMATG THEIR AFFAIR SERI 2. BUT THEY TURN OUT TO BE BETTER WH OTHER PEOPLE. THE MASOCHISM TANGO: WH TONY, WHO VOK THIS TROPE LIBERATELY BEE AM HIM.    SID JENKS SIDNEY "SID" JENKSPLAYED BY: MIKE BAILEY CENTRIC EPISOS: "SID" (SERI 1), "SID" (SERI 2) ANTIHERO: OF THE CLASSIL ANTI-HERO VARIETY. BIG EATER: MORE THAN ONE SCENE HAS SID EATG A HUGE PLATE OF FOOD. TONY EVEN LAMPSHAS HIS LIFTYLE AS NSISTG OF "NO EXERCISE, TOO MUCH FFEE, AND SH FOOD." BUTT-MONKEY: THE KID NNOT JT TCH A BREAK, WHETHER VOLV HIS LOVE LIFE, HIS FAY LIFE, OR HIS AMIC LIFE.CORDON BLGH CHEF--> FUN T-SHIRT: HE HAS ONE WH A TALKG DOG ON , THAT TENDS TO GO OFF AT APPROPRIATE TIM. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH TONY. TONY KISS SID ONCE ON THE LIPS AND ONCE ON THE FOREHEAD, THEY SLEEP NAKED OR MOSTLY NAKED THE SAME BED, AND TONY CRI WHEN HE'S SENDG SID OFF TO NEW YORK TO FD CASSIE. LOVE HURTS: MUCH OF HIS RELATNSHIP WH CASSIE IS ABOUT THIS. MOSTY BEDSHEET: SLEEPS NAKED. NATURE ABHORS A VIRG: HE DON'T STAY ONE.NERD GLASS: BUT OF URSE.--> NOT A MORNG PERSON: AS MONSTRATED THE FIRST EPISO, WHEN TONY HAS TO LL SID'S FATHER AND LIE ABOUT A NON-EXISTENT EXAM TO GET SID TO GET UP."I'M SH THE MORNGS."THE PIGPEN: A MOR EXAMPLE.--> ROMANTIC FALSE LEAD: SID HAS A CSH ON MICHELLE AND THERE'S A LOT OF BUILDUP TO THE IA THAT HE WOULD BE A BETTER BOYIEND FOR HER, CULMATG THEIR AFFAIR SERI 2. BUT MOSTLY SERV TO REMD SID THAT THE PERSON HE REALLY LOV IS CASSIE.SLOBS VERS SNOBS: WH TONY.--> THEME NAMG: SID'S FATHER'S SI OF THE FAY ARE ALL VARIANTS OF ALEXANR (ALEX, SANDY, LEX AND ALLY). SID SPOTS THAT HIS HE AND HIS FATHER (MARK) ARE THE ODD NAM OUT, MARKG THEM FOR BLACK SHEEP AND OUTST STAT.THIS LOSER IS YOU--> THE UN-FAVOURE: DPE THE FACT THAT HE HASN'T GOT ANY SIBLGS SID IS NSTANTLY OVERSHADOWED BY TONY. MR. JENKS' VOICE BE PLETELY DIFFERENT WHEN HE'S TALKG TO TONY, AS OPPOSED TO YELLG AT SID. AND HIS SEASON 2 EPISO, SID AND HIS DAD ARE BOTH UNFAVOR, TO HIS UNCLE AND S. VIRG-SHAMG: PLOT OF THE VERY FIRST EPISO.TONY: IT'S EMBARRASSG. SID: IT'S MON AND QUE NORMAL FOR SOMEONE OF SIXTEEN— TONY: —NO. IT'S EMBARRASSG, SID. SID: ..    CASSIE ASWORTH CASSANDRA "CASSIE" ASWORTHPLAYED BY: HANNAH MURRAY CENTRIC EPISOS: "CASSIE" (SERI 1), "CASSIE" (SERI 2), "PURE" (SERI 7) AMBIGUOLY BI: DURG HER PERD OF PROMISCUY AFTER HER SPL OM SID SERI 2, WE SEE HER SLEEP WH A WOMAN AS WELL AS A MAN. IT'S NOT CLEAR IF SHE'S ACTUALLY ATTRACTED TO EVERYONE SHE'S SLEEPG WH OR IF SHE'S JT TRYG TO SPE SID, THOUGH. BENEATH THE MASK: HER BOUNDLS ENERGY AND OUTWARD KDNS IS SHOWN TO HI A EPLY FLAWED PSYCHE, FILLED WH SELF-LOATHG AND ANGER.CASSIE: DO YOU KNOW WHAT HURTS THE MOST ABOUT A BROKEN HEART? NOT BEG ABLE TO REMEMBER HOW YOU FELT BEFORE. TRY AND KEEP THAT FEELG. BEE, GO... YOU'LL NEVER GET BACK. CHRIS: WHAT HAPPENS THEN? CASSIE: THEN YOU LAY WASTE TO THE WORLD. AND EVERYTHG . BREAKOUT CHARACTER: CASSIE PROVED EXPLOSIVELY POPULAR WH FANS, PECIALLY ON THE THEN-EMERGENT TUMBLR. SHE WAS ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS REVISED RX. BREAK THE CUTIE: HER ARC THE FIRST TWO SEASONS IS ONE GIANT TRMA CONGA LE. CALL-BACK: IN CASSIE'S FAL EPISO, SHE STRIK UP A FAST IENDSHIP WH ANOTHER TAXI DRIVER, WHO IDLY EMPHASIS HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT SHE EATS. UNLIKE ALAN, THOUGH, FRANK IS UNDOUBTEDLY NOT A FIGMENT OF HER IMAGATN. CATCHPHRASE: "OH. WOW. LOVELY." CHARACTER TIC: CASSIE HAS A HAB OF REWARDG ACTS OF KDNS TOWARDS HER WH A SPONTANEO KISS ON THE CHEEK. CLOUD CUCKOOLANR: SHE ACTS POSIVELY SPACEY THE FIRST SEASON. SHE EVENTUALLY GETS MORE GROUND THE SEND, AND BY THE SEVENTH, IS ABLE TO HOLD DOWN A JOB AND AN APARTMENT (ALBE A AD-END JOB AND A CRAPPY APARTMENT). COOL SHAS: QUE FOND OF SUNGLASS, WHICH PLAY UP HER QUEER MEANOUR. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: FREQUENTLY TEETERS BACK AND FORTH OVER THIS, HAVG LOW SELF-TEEM, SUICIDAL TENNCI, A HOST OF MENTAL ISSU, AND A SOCIAL AND ROMANTIC LIFE THAT NSTANTLY TTS HER EMOTNAL FORTU. CHRIS DYG HER ARMS, JT AS THGS WERE FALLY LOOKG UP, IS ENOUGH TO BREAK HER FOR THE RT OF THE SERI. DZY GENI: MALY SEASON 2. IN HER EPISO, SHE SPENDS MOST OF HER PHILOSOPHY EXAM CHATTG TO HER TEACHER AND DANCG TO "FUNKYTOWN." SHE SS DOWN TO WRE FOR THE LAST HOUR AND SEEMGLY AC THE TT. ON TOP OF THAT, CASSIE IS A GENI AT READG PEOPLE (ALMOST TELEPATHIC HER ACCURACY) AS WELL AS READG HEAVY BOOKS. DRIVEN TO SUICI / SPURNED TO SUICI. INTERPTED SUICI: THANKS TO JAL. DULL SURPRISE: OCSNALLY, SUCH AS WHEN SHE TCH JAL AND CHRIS HAVG SEX. THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPT: WHILE SHE'S NOT A RELATNSHIP WH HIM, THE ATH OF CHRIS FELY AFFECTS HER THIS WAY. GENI BOOK CLUB: LIKE TONY, SHE'S OFTEN SEEN READG BIG BOOKS THAT ARE THEMATILLY RELATED TO WHATEVER IS GOG ON AROUND HER, LIKE MARGARET ATWOOD'S THE EDIBLE WOMAN HER SERI 2 EPISO. GENKI GIRL: APPEARS THAT WAY AT FIRST. HE'S DEAD, JIM: HAS THIS REACTN WHEN CHRIS DI. I JT WANT TO BE BETIFUL: TOO BAD THAT HER IAS ABOUT ARE OF A KD: "I HAVEN'T EATEN FOR THREE DAYS, SO I ULD BE LOVELY". JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN THE LATER EPISOS. SHE'S A GOOD PERSON AT HEART BUT BE OPENLY LLO AND SPEFUL AFTER LEARNG ABOUT SID AND MICHELLE. LOVE HURTS: WH SID, PECIALLY SEASON 1, WHEN HIS IGNORG HER DROVE HER TO A SUICI ATTEMPT. KICK THE DOG: IN CHRIS' S2 EPISO, TRYG TO HURT JAL AND CHRIS (WHO'S BEEN LETTG HER STAY HIS FLAT) - FIRST TELLG JAL ABOUT ANGIE'S RETURN AND THEN LYG TO CHRIS THAT JAL LEFT HIM. MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL: OF THE "NSTCTED" VARIETY. SHE ISN'T JT QUIRKY, SHE HAS MULTIPLE LEGIMATE PSYCHOLOGIL PROBLEMS WHICH ARE PICTED WH ALL THE SERNS THEY REQUIRE. ALSO, SAID PROBLEMS ARE JT AS, IF NOT MORE, TEGRAL TO HER STORYLE AS HER RELATNSHIP WH SID. FURTHER, FOR ALL HER MPDG TRAPPGS, SID IS NOT PARTICULARLY RECEPTIVE TO HER PLUCKY OVERTUR AND THIS APPARENT DISTERT LEADS HER TO ATTEMPT SUICI; HIS LOVE EPIPHANY ONLY KICKS AFTER THE FACT. CASSIE ENDS UP PLAYG THE ROLE MORE NVENTNALLY TO JAL, OF ALL PEOPLE, ALBE A NON-ROMANTIC WAY. MISTAKEN FOR CHEATG: WHEN SID FDS OUT THAT SHE'S LIVG WH MEN STLAND HIS S2 EPISO. TURNS OUT THAT THE GUYS ARE GAY, BUT ONLY AFTER SID HAS TURNED OFF THE VIO LL AND JUMPED TO NCLNS.MOTOR MOUTH--> OBFTG INSANY: DPE HAVG REAL MENTAL HEALTH ISSU, SHE DO THIS AT TIM, SOMETIM BED WH OBFTG STUPIDY. IN CASSIE'S SEASON 2 EPISO, SHE ADMS THAT SHE STOPPED EATG BEE THEN EVERYONE HAD TO DO WHAT SHE SAID. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: FOR HER BROTHER, AS OF THE ENDG OF SKS:PURE. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH CHRIS, WHICH IS WHY HIS ATH RULTS A RARE PLATONIC EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPT FOR HER. THE OPHELIA: PLAYED WH THROUGHOUT THE TWO SERI. IT N WHIPLASH BETWEEN FUNNY ("I'M THKG OF LEAVG SCHOOL, GROWG A BEARD, AND JOG THE CIRC") TO JT PLA DISTURBG (EFFY'S SEASON 2 EPISO.)QUIRKY CURLS--> REALLY GETS AROUND: AN INFORMED ATTRIBUTE UNTIL SEASON 2. THE RUNAWAY: WHEN SHE RETURNS OM STLAND. SELF-HARM: ALTHOUGH NEVER SHOWN, 'S MENTNED HER SEASON TWO EPISO. SEX GODSS: SHE'S MENTNED TO BE REALLY GREAT THE SACK DUE TO SLEEPG AROUND A LOT, WHICH IS PART OF WHY MICHELLE PICKS HER TO BE THE GIRL TO TAKE SID'S VIRGY.SLAP-SLAP-KISS: WH SID SEASON 2.--> THE SOCIAL EXPERT: TAK TO AN ALMOST TELEPATHIC LEVEL, PECIALLY SEASON 2.STICKY FGERS--> STEPFORD SER: SHE MANAG TO BE ALL THREE TYP AT VAR POTS, WH HOW AGILE HER MENTAL STATE IS. THROUGH THE EY OF MADNS: IN HER SEASON 1 EPISO, SHE KEEPS GETTG TEXTS TELLG HER TO EAT! ON HER PHONE, AND SEEG THE WORD SPELLED OUT ELSEWHERE. NOBODY IS TEXTG HER. THEY ARE ALL JT HALLUCATNS. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: IN SEASON 2 WHEN SHE BE A JERKASS WOOBIE FOR A TIME. WEIGHT WOE: CASSIE SUFFERS OM ANOREXIA NERVOSA AND STARV HERSELF ORR TO GET TH. (MOST OF THE TIME.)WOMAN SRNED: THROUGHOUT SEASON 2.-->    CHRIS MIL CHRIS MILPLAYED BY: JOE DEMPSIE CENTRIC EPISOS: "CHRIS" (SERI 1), "CHRIS" (SERI 2) ANTIHERO: SPECIFILLY, THE CLASSIL ANTI-HERO. BLOOD OM THE MOUTH: WHEN HE DI, HE VOMS AND HAS BLOOD E OM BOTH HIS MOUTH AND NOSE. CAN'T GET AWAY WH NUTH': LIFE JT SEEMS TO KEEP THROWG CHRIS MORE AND MORE LEMONS. CATCHPHRASE: "FUCK ". DIED YOUR ARMS TONIGHT: IN CASSIE'S ARMS, AS SHE TRI SPERATELY TO LL FOR AN AMBULANCE. FUN T-SHIRT: NOT AS PRONOUNCED AS SID'S, BUT HE DO ENJOY THEM. LIFE OF THE PARTY: EVEN AMONG A ST FULL OF PARTIERS, CHRIS IS PARTICULARLY EXTREME.MALE FRONTAL NUDY--> NEW JOB EPISO: HIS SEASON 2 EPISO IS ABOUT HIM FDG A JOB AS A REALTOR. NICE GUY: CHRIS IS REALLY A GENUELY ALTISTIC PERSON. HE DO LOVE PARTYG, BUT UNLIKE SOMEONE LIKE TONY, HE DON'T HAVE AN ULTERR MOTIVE BEYOND PARTYG, AND IS A SWEETHEART.OBI-WAN MOMENT--> OPPOS ATTRACT: WH JAL. ADMTEDLY, THOUGH, WAS ONLY AFTER EACH OF THEM BROUGHT OUT A LTLE OF EACH OTHER - CHRIS GETTG JAL TO SHOW HER WILR SI, AND JAL GETTG CHRIS TO MAKE RPONSIBLE CISNS. PARENTAL ABANDONMENT: HE HAS TO FD A JOB JT TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO LIVE. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH CASSIE, WHICH IS WHY HIS ATH RULTS A RARE PLATONIC EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPT FOR HER. SEND LOVE: WHEN HE CHOOS JAL OVER ANGIE. THE STONER: PERHAPS ALSO THE EDE STONER. TEACHER/STUNT ROMANCE: WH ANGIE, WHO HE FIRST HOOKS UP WH WHILE RSIA AND AGA ONCE THEY RETURN TO BRISTOL. TEENY WEENIE: IMPLIED TWICE FIRST TWO EPISOS. WHILE THE FIRST MENTN ULD PASS AS A HARSH JOKE, THE SEND ONE NTAED JAL AND CASSIE TAKG PY ON HIM BEE OF THAT. TOO GOOD FOR THIS SFUL EARTH: HE'S ONE OF THE GENTLT PEOPLE HIS CIRCLE OF IENDS, WHICH MAK HIS ATH ALL THE MORE TRAGIC. TRMA CONGA LE: HIS BACKSTORY, WHICH VOLV LOSG A PARENT AND A BROTHER AND THE OTHER PARENT'S DIFFERENCE. THE UNFAVORE: HOW HIS PARENTS TREAT HIM. HIS DAD EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO ONLY HAVE PHOTOS OF PETER. UPTIGHT LOV WILD: GENR FLIPPED WH JAL, THOUGH NOTABLY THEY ONLY GET TOGETHER AFTER HE TRI TO BRG OUT HER WILD SI AND SHE GETS HIM TO BE RPONSIBLE. WRONG GUY FIRST: ANGIE IS THE WRONG GIRL FIRST.    JAL FAZER JALANR "JAL" FAZERPLAYED BY: LARISSA WILSON CENTRIC EPISOS: "JAL" (SERI 1), "JAL" (SERI 2) BLACK AND NERDY:CHRIS: YOU DON'T HAVE SEX, DO YOU? YOU HAVE CLARET LSONS. CLOSER TO EARTH: COMPARED TO THE SPACEY CASSIE, THE SOCPATHIC TONY, THE MOODY MICHELLE, OR THE WILD CHRIS, SHE'S VERY MUCH A LOGIL FORCE THEIR LIV. ELEGANT CLASSIL MICIAN: SHE PLAYS THE CLARET, AND IS QUE SOPHISTITED.THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPT--> GOOD GIRLS AVOID ABORTN: AVERTED WHEN JAL GETS AN ABORTN SERI 2, SO SHE N NTUE ON WH HER MIC STUDI AT UNI. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH MICHELLE. THEY'VE BEEN PALS SCE 4TH GRA AND ARE EACH OTHER'S SUPPORT SYSTEM. ONLY SANE WOMAN: TENDS TO PLAY THE VOICE OF REASON AMONG THE CHARACTERS. OPPOS ATTRACT: WH CHRIS. ADMTEDLY, THOUGH, WAS ONLY AFTER EACH OF THEM BROUGHT OUT A LTLE OF EACH OTHER - CHRIS GETTG JAL TO SHOW HER WILR SI, AND JAL GETTG CHRIS TO MAKE RPONSIBLE CISNS. THE SMART GUY: SHE TENDS TO PLAY THIS ROLE, EVEN THOUGH TONY AND CASSIE ARE ARGUABLY SMARTER. SHE CLEANS UP NICELY: IN HER SEASON 1 EPISO. TO THE POT, WHERE... STUPID SEXY FLANRS: .. HOMOSEXUAL MAXXIE STARTS DROOLG OVER HER. TEAM MOM: SHE'S VERY TENR WH THE GROUP, WHICH MAY BE DUE TO HER PARATIVELY PRIVILEGED BACKGROUND. TEEN PREGNANCY: WH CHRIS'S CHILD, WHICH SHE CHOOS TO ABORT ORR TO FOC ON HER STUDI. TOKEN MORY: UNLS WE UNT POSH KENH, SHE'S THE ONLY BLACK MEMBER OF THE GROUP. UPTIGHT LOV WILD: GENR FLIPPED WH CHRIS, THOUGH NOTABLY THEY ONLY GET TOGETHER AFTER HE TRI TO BRG OUT HER WILD SI AND SHE GETS HIM TO BE RPONSIBLE. YOU ARE A CRED TO YOUR RACE: GETS A SPEECH LIKE THIS OM THE SCHOOL ADMISTRATN WHEN SHE'S BEG TERVIEWED FOR BEG A BBC YOUNG MICIAN OF THE YEAR FALIST. THEY GO ON AND ON ABOUT HOW JAL IS OM A "DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUND" WHEN, ACTUALLY, HER FATHER IS A FAMO MICIAN AND SHE'S PROBABLY THE MOST WELL-OFF OF HER IEND GROUP.    MAXXIE OLIVER MAXXIE OLIVERPLAYED BY: MCH HEWER CENTRIC EPISOS: "MAXIE AND ANWAR" (SERI 1), "TONY AND MAXXIE" (SERI 2) ALL GAYS LOVE THEATER: DANCG IS MORE HIS THG, BUT HE DO LOVE THE THEATER. CAMP GAY: MOSTLY AVERTED: HE LOV DANCG AND THEATRE, BUT HE'S NOT FLAMBOYANT ANY SENSE OF THE WORD, AND WOULD RATHER BE "ONE OF THE LADS." CLUB KID: ALTHOUGH HE'S ONE OF THE MOST BALANCED CHARACTERS OF THE SHOW AND IS ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS WHO ISN'T SEEN G DGS. GAYNGST: NOTABLY AVERTED. MAXXIE'S OPEN HOMOSEXUALY ISN'T A PROBLEM FOR HIM, HIS FAY OR IENDS. IT'S ANWAR WHO HAS TO GET OVER THE ISSUE, NOT MAXXIE. "GENR-NORMATIVE PARENT" PLOT: MUCH OF THE STORY NOT HAVG TO DO WH TONY THEIR JOT SEASON 2 EPISO. EVEN THE GUYS WANT HIM: AT ONE POT, WHEN CHRIS NEED CLOTH (LONG STORY), MAXXIE MANAGED TO GET PANTS FOR HIM BY CHARMG THEM OFF OF A RANDOM GUY. AND OF URSE THERE'S HIS DALLIANCE WH TONY. THE HEART: HE'S (WH POSSIBLE EXCEPTN OF CHRIS) THE NICT, MOST RG AND (WH NO EXCEPTNS) EMOTNALLY STABLE MEMBER OF THE GROUP. IT'S PECIALLY EVINT THE SEND SEASON WHEN HE TAK RE OF TONY. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH ANWAR, ALTHOUGH OBVLY M THE "HETEROSEXUAL" AS FAR AS MAXXIE GO. MR. FANSERVICE: IRONILLY ENOUGH, HE PROVIS A FAIR AMOUNT OF MALE FANSERVICE FOR THE LADI (NOT THAT THE FELLAS DON'T LIKE , MD YOU). NICE GUY: MAXXIE IS FELY ON THE NICER SI OF THE SPECTM WH HIS CIRCLE OF IENDS, AND HAS NO REAL DYSFUNCTNS TO SPEAK OF. ONLY SANE MAN: HE SHAR THIS ROLE WH JAL. HE STILL HAS HIS ISSU, BUT HE HANDL THEM A LOT BETTER THAN MOST OF HIS IENDS. PERFORMANCE ARTIST: HE'S A FAN OF SHOWMANSHIP. HE SISTS UPON PUTTG A TAP-DANCG NUMBER DEATH OF A SALMAN. SHIRTLS SCENE: WH NUDY—ONE ()FAMO EXAMPLE IS WHEN A STALKER IS HIDG HIS ROOM AND MAXXIE ARRIV TO GO TO SLEEP. HIS FIRST ACT IS TO STRIP OFF THE SUPERMAN STUME HE'S WEARG. SLEEPS THE NU: SLEEPS NAKED, MUCH TO SKETCH'S JOY WHEN SHE BREAKS TO HIS ROOM. STRAIGHT GAY: AS HE HIMSELF PUTS , HE'S "ONE OF THE LADS." TEAM DAD: COM WH THE TERRORY OF BEG THE ONLY SANE MAN, HE TENDS TO LOOK AFTER THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE GROUP, PECIALLY TONY AFTER HIS ACCINT. THOSE TWO GUYS: WH ANWAR, PARTICULARLY THE FIRST SERI.    ANWAR KHARRAL ANWAR KHARRALPLAYED BY: DEV PATEL CENTRIC EPISOS: "MAXXIE AND ANWAR" (SERI 1) ALL ASIANS KNOW MARTIAL ARTS: AN EXTEMELY RARE SOUTH ASIAN EXAMPLE. BUT HE IS OF PAKISTANI SCENT, THE ONLY ASIAN OF HIS GENERATN AND HAPPENS TO BE THE ONLY ONE TO KNOW HOW TO FIGHT OFF A BUNCH OF THUGS THAT GATE CRASHED A PARTY. HE APPEARS TO BE A TAEKWONDO FIGHTER GOG OFF HIS KICKS AND HIS ACTOR'S MARTIAL ARTS BACKGROUND. ASIAN AIRHEAD: DOWNPLAYED, BUT HE'S SOUTH ASIAN AND QUE DZY. BIG GUY: DOWNPLAYED. BUT HE IS THE SEND-TALLT OF THE GENERATN ONE ST AT 6'1"(TONY IS 6'3") AND IS SHOWN TO BE A SKILLED MARTIAL ARTIST. BUTT-MONKEY: MOST OF THE HUMOR SURROUNDG HIM AT HIS EXPENSE. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: HE'S ALWAYS BEEN MAXXIE'S BT FRIEND AND THEY DO EVERYTHG TOGETHER. CROUCHG MORON, HIDN BADASS: DPE BEG THE CLOWN OF THE GROUP. ANWAR N BEAT UP THUGS G TAEKWONDO KICKS (THANKS TO DEV PATEL BEG A BLACK BELT REAL LIFE) FAKE NATNALY: ANWAR IS A BRISH PAKISTANI MLIM PLAYED BY DEV PATEL WHO IS A BRISH INDIAN HDU OF GUJARATI ETHNICY. HIDN DEPTHS: DPE HIS MR. VICE GUY TENNCI AND MANCHILD BEHAVUR. HE IS STILL A VOUT MLIM WHEN TO PRAYER AND IS ALSO SHOWN TO BE A SKILLED MARTIAL ARTIST. LIK OLR WOMEN: IN ONE EPISO HE VOLLY EXPRS HIS SIRE TO HAVE SEX WH AN OLR WOMAN. MR. VICE GUY: DPE HIS RELIGN'S RTRICTIVE TEACHGS. ANWAR LOV TO DRK, SMOKE AND FORNITE AS MUCH AS EVERYONE ELSE THE ST. PLUCKY COMIC RELIEF: ESPECIALLY TE SEASON 2, WHERE ANWAR'S STORYLE SEEMED TO EXIST TO PROVI A B OF A FUN MOOD WHIPLASH THE MIDST OF THE DARKER AND EDGIER ARCS SURROUNDG THE OTHER CHARACTERS. RELIG BISER: A HEDONISTIC MLIM THAT KEEPS UP WH HIS SALAT (5 DAILY PRAYERS) AND N KICK ASS TAEKWONDO STYLE. SLEEPS THE NU: HE'S SHOWN TO SLEEP NAKED A FEW TIM. PLAYED FOR LGHS WHEN HIS FAY ATTEMPTS TO SURPRISE HIM ON THE MORNG OF HIS BIRTHDAY LEADG TO A BIRTHDAY SU SURPRISE PARTY AND HIM TO HAVE A NAKED FREAK-OUT. STRAW HYPOCRE: ANWAR IS PERFECTLY FE BREAKG ISLAM'S L REGARDG DGS, DRKG AND PREMARAL SEX, BUT SUDNLY CLGS TO HIS RELIGN AS AN EXCE FOR HIS HOMOPHOBIA. MAXXIE LLS HIM OUT ON THEIR EPISO. THOSE TWO GUYS: WH MAXXIE, PARTICULARLY THE FIRST SERI. TEENY WEENIE: HE'S VERY UNR-ENDOWED, TO THE POT EVEN HIS SISTERS AND MOTHER MOCK HIM FOR . POSSIBLY A SUBVERSN, AS THE RSIAN GIRL ANKA, WHOM HE HAS SEX WH, SEEMS IMPRSED BY HIS HARDNS, WHICH ULD MEAN THAT HE'S A GROWER AND NOT A SHOWER. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: TOWARDS THE END OF SEASON 1 REGARDG MAXXIE'S HOMOSEXUALY. HE GETS BETTER AFTER HIS FATHER TALKS SOME SENSE TO HIM AND REPAIRS THEIR IENDSHIP. TWOFER TOKEN MORY: ANWAR IS BOTH MLIM AND PAKISTANI, AND IS THE ONLY ONE OF BOTH THE GROUP.    SKETCH  LUCY / "SKETCH"PLAYED BY: AIMEE-FFN EDWARDS CENTRIC EPISOS: "SKETCH" (SERI 2) ABHORRENT ADMIRER: CREEPY, SLIGHTLY UNHGED AND HAS NO RPECT FOR MAXXIE'S SEXUALY. ALAS, POOR VILLA: SHE IS FAR MORE PATHETIC THAN SHE IS MALIC. CREEPY CROSSDRSER: DOWNPLAYED. SHE'S TRYG TO MAKE HERSELF LOOK "AS CLOSE TO A BOY AS YOU N GET" FOR MAXXIE BUT NO-ONE WOULD BE FOOLED. DID NOT GET THE GUY: TWICE, BOTH WHEN MAXXIE REJECTS HER BEE OF THEIR PATIBLE ORIENTATNS AND WHEN ANWAR LEAV HER TO GO TO LONDON WH MAXXIE. I JT WANT TO HAVE FRIENDS: SHE'S A LONELY GIRL AND EXPRS AN TERT BEG PART OF THE GROUP. ALTHOUGH SHE PENNTLY BEIENDS MICHELLE AND ANWAR, AFTER THE TTH OF HER STALKG OUT SHE QUICKLY LOS ANY HOPE OF JOG THE GANG. INPATIBLE ORIENTATN: SHE'S MADLY LOVE WH MAXXIE, WHO IS GAY. BIZARRELY, SKETCH KNOWS THIS, BUT THKS SHE N GET AROUND BY DRSG BOYISH. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: EVERYONE EXCEPT HER MOTHER REFERS TO HER AS "SKETCH" AND HER ACTUAL FIRST NAME UP ONLY ONCE. HER LAST NAME IS NEVER MENTNED. PLUCKY GIRL: THE LIST OF THE ACTNS SHE WAS WILLG TO UNRTAKE TO GET TO MAXXIE CLUS: STALKG, BREAKG TO HIS HOE AND SPENDG THE ENTIRE NIGHT UNR HIS BED, AN ELABORATE PLAN OF HIJACKG A SCHOOL PLAY WH POISONG AN NOCENT AND GETTG A TEACHER FIRED BY FALSELY ACCG HIM OF SEXUAL ABE ON THE WAY, MORE STALKG AND SCREWG MAXXIE'S BT IEND. AND SOME TIRE SLASHG THE SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS. SHE'S A VERY DARK EXAMPLE, BUT YOU HAVE TO GIVE TO HER, THE GIRL HAS TERMATN. STALKER WH A CSH: TOWARDS MAXXIE, TO THE POT OF BREAKG TO HIS BEDROOM AND HIDG UNR HIS BED. YANRE: SHE'S NOT VLENT LIKE THIS TROPE UALLY IMPLI, BUT SHE'S FELY UNSTABLE AND DON'T REALLY RE WHO SHE HAS TO HURT TO GET TO MAXXIE. FAY
• MICHAEL TOMASKY ON SANTOM’S GAY LOVE THE JAN. 8 DEBATEKUDOSIT’S UNCLEAR WHETHER ANYONE BELIEVED RICK SANTOM WHEN HE SAID HE’D LOVE HIS SON EVEN IF HE WERE GAY, SAYS MICHAEL TOMASKY.MICHAEL TOMASKYSPECIAL CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 13, 2017 10:28AM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 08, 2012 11:14AM EST CHARL KPA / AP PHOTOGENERAL OBSERVATN: LOTS OF HEAT, PECIALLY BETWEEN NEWT GGRICH AND MT ROMNEY. GGRICH MAY HAVE LAND A BLOW ON THE REER POLICIAN CHARGE, BUT ROMNEY IS SO FAR AHEAD RIGHT NOW. IT SEEMS DIFFICULT TO IMAGE HIS SUPPORT LLAPSG TWO DAYS. ON OTHER ARROWS FIRED HIS WAY, I THOUGHT HE FLECTED THEM PRETTY EFFECTIVELY. AS THE GUY WHO LLED SANTOM’S RISE, I STILL FD HIM TERTG AND AM VERY CUR ABOUT WHETHER HE’LL GET 10 PERCENT OF THE VOTE ON TUDAY OR 25, BEE EHER OR ANYTHG BETWEEN SEEMS POSSIBLE. HE HAD A GOOD MOMENT, I THOUGHT, WH HIS ANSWER TO THE QUTN ABOUT HOW HE’D REACT IF ONE OF HIS SONS WERE TO ANNOUNCE THAT HE’S GAY. SANTOM: “I’D LOVE HIM JT AS MUCH AS I DID THE SEND BEFORE HE TOLD ME.” GENERAL APPLSE TO THIS. I’M NOT 100 PERCENT PERSUAD THAT THIS IS REALLY AND FULLY AND PLETELY TE, EHER SANTOM’S SE OR THE DIENCE’S, BUT EVERYONE KNOWS ’S WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, AND HE MANAGED TO SAY WH SEEMG NVICTN. AND PROBABLY HELPED HIM APPEAR TO BE FAR LS EXTREME ON THE MATTERS THAN HE ACTUALLY IS (HE MIGHT LOVE THAT SON AS MUCH, BUT HE IS ON RERD AS SAYG HE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SON OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT HE CHOOS HIS BEDROOM). ROMNEY GOT OFF A GOOD LE DURG THE GAY QUTNG WHEN DAVID GREGORY ASKED HIM WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME HE’D DONE SOMETHG TO SUPPORT THE GAY MUNY, AND HE SAID, “RIGHT NOW.” IT WAS CLEVER, BUT NOT TE. WORKED A PRIMARY BATE, WON’T A GENERAL.SANTOM DIDN’T GET MUCH ON THE ENOMY, AND THAT MAY HURT HIM. AS RADIL AS HE IS, HE’S THE ONLY ONE OF THE BUNCH WHO EVEN WORDS LIKE “MIDDLE CLASS” AND “MANUFACTURG,” BUT HE DID NOT MANAGE TO GET THAT PART OF HIS PACKAGE ACROSS. I’D GUS HE DIDN’T MANAGE TO HELP HIMSELF THAT MUCH, BUT IF ROMNEY WAS FACT HURT, THAT VOTE HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE. AND SCE SANTOM’S STILL ON THE UPSWG, HE’S A MORE PLSIBLE NDIDATE FOR THAN GGRICH OR RON PL—ALTHOUGH PERHAPS NOT MORE THAN JON HUNTSMAN, WHO HAD HIS MOMENTS THIS MORNG BUT STILL PROBABLY N'T BE PETIVE SOUTH CAROLA OR FLORIDA.MICHAEL TOMASKY

PROTAGONISTS    TONY STONEM  ANTHONY "TONY" STONEMPLAYED BY: NICHOLAS HOULT CENTRIC EPISOS: "TONY" (SERI 1), "TONY AND MAXXIE", "TONY" (SERI 2) THE ACE: TONY IS ATHLETIC, CHARMG, BRILLIANT, A GREAT SGER, AND ATTRACTIVE TO BOOT. MAXXIE EVEN LAMPSHAS WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR ENUNTER WHILE RSIA, AND TONY IS TERRIBLE AT GIVG HEAD:"WOW, WE'VE FALLY FOUND SOMETHG YOU'RE NOT GOOD AT."AFFABLY EVIL--> AMBIGUOLY BI: IT'S NEVER MA CLEAR WHETHER HIS DALLIANCE WH MAXXIE IS JT AN EXPERIMENT OR IF HE'S ACTUALLY BISEXUAL. MICHELLE'S MENT BELOW ONLY ME AFTER THE FACT. ANYTHG THAT MOV: AS MICHELLE SAYS, "HE SLEEPS WH EVERYONE, EVEN BOYS!" THE ATONER: IN SEASON 2, HE ONLY HAS MAXXIE AND EFFY ON HIS SI, AS HE'S ALIENATED ALL OF HIS IENDS. HE SPENDS MOST OF THE SEASON PROVG THAT HE'S CHANGED. BIG BROTHER INSTCT: HE WILL BE A DICK TO ANYBODY ELSE, BUT HE WILL LOOK AFTER EFFY. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: MALY TO ADULTS: HE N CHARM HIS WAY WH MOST OF THEM. ONLY A FEW ADULTS AND HIS IENDS KNOW THAT 'S ALL JT AN ACT. BREAK THE HGHTY: IN LATE SEASON 1. FIRST HIS IENDS BEE FED UP WH HIS BEHAVR, THEN JOSH HS HIM WHERE HURTS LERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY, AND FALLY THE B FISH THE JOB.BYRONIC HERO--> CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: HIS ACCINT AT THE END OF SERI 1 MEANS TONY STARTS THE NEXT SERI A MORE VULNERABLE PLACE, SHOWG SOME HIDN PTHS TO HIM. DEPRAVED BISEXUAL: HE IS AT LEAST BI-CUR AND FELY PRAVED. THE PROBLEM WH HIS ENUNTER WH MAXXIE ISN'T SEEN AS BAD BEE THE LATTER IS A BOY; 'S BAD BEE TONY HAS A GIRLIEND AT THE TIME AND BEE HE OBJECTIFI MAXXIE TO A TO-GO GAY FOR EXPERIMENTS. DID NOT GET THE GIRL: IT'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT TONY AND MICHELLE'S BREAK UP IS PERMANENT AS THEY ARE GOG TO DIFFERENT UNIVERSI. EXPERIMENTED COLLEGE: DURG THE TRIP TO RSIA, HE HAS A LIAISON WH MAXXIE. FOR THE EVULZ: APPARENTLY TONY MS WH OTHERS' LIV AND EMOTNS BEE HE N'T THK OF A BETTER ENTERTAMENT. MR. FANSERVICE: THE SHOW FELY MAK KNOWN THAT NICK HOULT HAS A MAGNIFICENT BODY. EVEN THE GUYS WANT HIM: SUBVERTED THAT WHEN TONY ACTUALLY GETS ROUND TO SLEEPG WH MAXXIE, TURNS OUT THAT SOME GUYS DON'T WANT HIM AFTER ALL. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: IN SEASON 1. WHEN HE ALIENAT SID AND MICHELLE, TURNS OUT THAT NOBODY ELSE WAS THAT BIG A FAN OF HIM. GENI BOOK CLUB: THE BOOKS HE READS ARE OFTEN THEMATILLY RELATED TO WHAT HAPPENS THE EPISO; FOR STANCE, HE READS NIETZSCHE SID'S SERI 1 EPISO, WHICH FEATUR TONY AT HIS MOST ÜBERMENSCHIAN, AND HE'S READG *ORANG ARE NOT THE ONLY F*, ABOUT A GIRL G TO TERMS WH BEG A LBIAN, THE EPISO WHERE HE EXPERIMENTS WH MAXXIE. HEEL–FACE TURN: ALMOST RULTED REMPTN EQUALS DEATH THE SEASON 1 FALE, BUT HE REVERED. HEEL REALIZATN: AT THE END OF THE FIRST SEASON, HE REALIZ HOW MUCH OF A BASTARD HE'S BEEN AND TRI TO MAKE UP FOR , ONLY TO GET H BY A TCK. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: HAS THIS DYNAMIC WH SID. TONY KISS SID ONCE ON THE LIPS AND ONCE ON THE FOREHEAD, THEY SLEEP NAKED OR MOSTLY NAKED THE SAME BED, AND TONY CRI WHEN HE'S SENDG SID OFF TO NEW YORK TO FD CASSIE. INNOCENTLY INSENSIVE: IN SEASON 1. HE HONTLY BELIEV THAT HIS MSG WH OTHERS' LIV MAK THEM TERTG AND IS DLY SURPRISED THAT HIS VICTIMS DON'T SHARE THIS OPN. INSUFFERABLE GENI: WH ONE EXCEPTN; SEE SMALL NAME, BIG EGO BELOW. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: EVENTUALLY, HE BE A SWEETHEART UNR A MASK OF DICKISHNS, AS OPPOSED TO JT BEG A PLETE DICK WH NO SWEET SI. LACK OF EMPATHY: A MAJOR PART OF HIS CHARACTER SERI 1; THE FOLLOWG SERI, HIS CHARACTER VELOPMENT IS ABOUT HIM BREAKG OUT OF THIS. LASER-GUID KARMA: JOSH ORCHTRAT THIS FOR TONY. AFTER TONY BREAKS UP JOSH AND MICHELLE BY STEALG HIS PHONE AND FILLG WH PORN OF HIS SISTER, THEN SENDG TO CHELLE, JOSH LUR OUT TONY'S SISTER, DGS HER UP, AND REF TO LL AN AMBULANCE UNLS TONY FUCKS HER RIGHT THERE AND THEN. AFTER BEATG THE HELL OUT OF TONY AND MAKG HIM BEG, THOUGH, JOSH ENDS THE “LSON” AND LETS THEM GO. LOOK BOTH WAYS: HOW HE GETS H BY A B AT THE END OF SERI 1, THOUGH HE GETS BETTER. KILLED MID-SENTENCE: HE'S ALMOST KILLED BY A B THE FALE OF SEASON 1. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: NO MATTER WHAT, HE ALWAYS, ALWAYS MATAS NTROL OF A SUATN. EXCEPT WHEN HE DON'T, WHICH UALLY MEANS SOMETHG HAS GONE TERRIBLY WRONG. THE MASOCHISM TANGO: WH MICHELLE. THE TWO NSTANTLY HURT ONE ANOTHER, BUT THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO GRAVATE TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER TIME AND AGA. MORALY PET: EFFY IS HIS. SHE'S MORE THAN ONCE PONRED TO BE THE ONLY PERSON TONY TLY R ABOUT, AND SHE TURN HAS BIG BROTHER WORSHIP FOR TONY. AFTER TONY'S ACTNS ENDANGER EFFY, AND EFFY HERSELF EXPRS DISAPPROVAL WH THE WAY HE TREATED MICHELLE, TONY BEGS TAKG STEPS TO MAKE THGS RIGHT. NIETZSCHE WANNABE: LAMPSHAD SID'S SEASON 1 EPISO, WHERE TONY IS ACTUALLY SEEN READG TH SPAKE ZARATHTRA. REALLY GETS AROUND: JAL REC AN IMPRSIVE LIST OF TONY'S NQUTS AT ONE POT, AND PROBABLY ISN'T PLETE. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: MOSTLY AVERTED, AS TONY TLY IS AN INSUFFERABLE GENI, BUT IS IMPLIED THAT HIS SEXUAL PROWS IS NOT WHAT HE BELIEV TO BE. ACRDG TO MAXXIE, GIVG HEAD IS THE "ONE THG [TONY'S] NOT ACTUALLY GOOD AT," AND SEASON 2 MICHELLE SAYS THAT SID IS THE FIRST PERSON TO MAKE HER E, MEANG THAT TONY NEVER HAS. SO WHILE HE MAY BE GOOD AT GETTG PEOPLE TO HIS BED, HE'S APPARENTLY NOT SO GREAT AT SATISFYG THEM ONCE THEY'RE THERE. SMUG SNAKE: IN THE FIRST SEASON TONY SEEMS TO BE NVCED THAT HIS CHARM, TELLIGENCE AND PERCEIVED SUPERRY OVER HIS IENDS GUARANTEE THAT HE N GET AWAY WH BEG AN ASS. THEY DON'T, AND BY THE END OF THE SEASON HE MANAG TO HAVE ALIENATED EVERY SGLE ONE OF THEM - EHER PERSONALLY OR THEY CHOOSE TO SI WH SID AND/OR MICHELLE OVER HIM.SOCPATHIC HERO--> TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME: HIS LOOKS FELY PLAY TO HIS ADVANTAGE. TOOK A LEVEL KDNS: FROM A BORRLE SOCPATH TO A GENUELY GOOD PERSON WHO ACTUALLY R ABOUT HIS IENDS BEYOND G THEM FOR AMEMENT. TOXIC FRIEND INFLUENCE: SID PARTICULAR DO SOME STUPID THGS BEE OF TONY. THEN AGA, TONY (AT FIRST) JT DON'T RE ABOUT OTHERS' WELL-BEG.THE VAMP: MALE EXAMPLE.--> VILLA PROTAGONIST: INIALLY; SEASON 1 PATS TONY AS A PLETE AND UTTER JACKASS WHO ONLY TREATS OTHER PEOPLE LIKE GARBAGE FOR HIS OWN FUN. SEASON 2 BRGS HIM DOWN A PEG.WICKED CULTURED-->    MICHELLE RICHARDSON MICHELLE RICHARDSONPLAYED BY: APRIL PEARSON CENTRIC EPISOS: "MICHELLE" (SERI 1), "MICHELLE" (SERI 2) BETTER AS FRIENDS: WHILE SHE AND SID DO TRY TO DATE, THEY REALIZE THEY'RE NOT PATIBLE ROMANTILLY AND END UP AS IENDS, AND PROBABLY CLOSER THAN THEY WERE BEFORE THEY GOT VOLVED. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SHE'S GENERALLY RATHER GENTLE AND NICE TO MOST EVERYONE, BUT SHE HAS A PRETTY SILVER TONGUE THAT SHE'S UNAAID TO UNLEASH ON THOSE WHO GET ON HER BAD SI. THIS IS PARTICULARLY TE WHEN MICHELLE BEATS UP TONY FOR CHEATG ON HER WH MAXXIE AND NOT TELLG HER. DID NOT GET THE GUY: BY SERI 2 SHE NCLUS THAT SHE AND SID ARE BETTER AS FRIENDS AND 'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT SHE WON'T GET BACK TOGETHER WH TONY BEE THEY ARE GOG TO DIFFERENT UNIVERSI. EMBARRASSG NICKNAME: "NIPS," TONY'S LS-THAN-FLATTERG NICKNAME FOR HER. GENI DZ: THOUGH SHE'S EASILY DISMISSED BY MANY OF THE CHARACTERS - AND EVEN BY HERSELF - AS A VAPID PRETTY GIRL, MICHELLE IS ACTUALLY A PRETTY GOOD STUNT, PECIALLY WHEN TO LANGUAG. IN THE GENERATN FALE, THIS IS SOLIDIFIED BY MICHELLE TIEG WH TONY FOR THE BT A-LEVEL GRAS THEIR GROUP OF IENDS, SURPASSG EVEN JAL. HEROIC BSOD: WHEN TONY GETS H BY A B AT THE END OF SEASON 1. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH JAL. THEY'VE BEEN PALS SCE 4TH GRA AND ARE EACH OTHER'S SUPPORT SYSTEM. INSECURE LOVE INTERT: TAK GREAT PRI DATG TONY, BEE "HE ULD HAVE ANYONE" BUT CHOOS TO BE WH HER; AND THAT'S VALIDATG SELF APPARENTLY. LOVABLE ALPHA BCH: MICHELLE BOTH TONY'S GIRLIEND AND FEMALE UNTERPART. THOUGH SHE N BE SNIPPY AND SELF-ABSORBED, SHE'S VERY GENUE AND PLEASANT TO PEOPLE. NICE GIRL: IS GENERALLY PLEASANT TO BE AROUND, AND IS EVEN BT IENDS WH THE BLACK AND NERDY JAL. PARENTAL NEGLECT: HER MOM IS NSTANTLY BLOWG HER OFF AND IGNORG HER PROBLEMS BEE SHE'S DISTRACTED BY HER BOYIENDS. ROMANTIC FALSE LEAD: SID HAS A CSH ON MICHELLE AND THERE'S A LOT OF BUILDUP TO THE IA THAT HE WOULD BE A BETTER BOYIEND FOR HER, CULMATG THEIR AFFAIR SERI 2. BUT THEY TURN OUT TO BE BETTER WH OTHER PEOPLE. THE MASOCHISM TANGO: WH TONY, WHO VOK THIS TROPE LIBERATELY BEE AM HIM.    SID JENKS SIDNEY "SID" JENKSPLAYED BY: MIKE BAILEY CENTRIC EPISOS: "SID" (SERI 1), "SID" (SERI 2) ANTIHERO: OF THE CLASSIL ANTI-HERO VARIETY. BIG EATER: MORE THAN ONE SCENE HAS SID EATG A HUGE PLATE OF FOOD. TONY EVEN LAMPSHAS HIS LIFTYLE AS NSISTG OF "NO EXERCISE, TOO MUCH FFEE, AND SH FOOD." BUTT-MONKEY: THE KID NNOT JT TCH A BREAK, WHETHER VOLV HIS LOVE LIFE, HIS FAY LIFE, OR HIS AMIC LIFE.CORDON BLGH CHEF--> FUN T-SHIRT: HE HAS ONE WH A TALKG DOG ON , THAT TENDS TO GO OFF AT APPROPRIATE TIM. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH TONY. TONY KISS SID ONCE ON THE LIPS AND ONCE ON THE FOREHEAD, THEY SLEEP NAKED OR MOSTLY NAKED THE SAME BED, AND TONY CRI WHEN HE'S SENDG SID OFF TO NEW YORK TO FD CASSIE. LOVE HURTS: MUCH OF HIS RELATNSHIP WH CASSIE IS ABOUT THIS. MOSTY BEDSHEET: SLEEPS NAKED. NATURE ABHORS A VIRG: HE DON'T STAY ONE.NERD GLASS: BUT OF URSE.--> NOT A MORNG PERSON: AS MONSTRATED THE FIRST EPISO, WHEN TONY HAS TO LL SID'S FATHER AND LIE ABOUT A NON-EXISTENT EXAM TO GET SID TO GET UP."I'M SH THE MORNGS."THE PIGPEN: A MOR EXAMPLE.--> ROMANTIC FALSE LEAD: SID HAS A CSH ON MICHELLE AND THERE'S A LOT OF BUILDUP TO THE IA THAT HE WOULD BE A BETTER BOYIEND FOR HER, CULMATG THEIR AFFAIR SERI 2. BUT MOSTLY SERV TO REMD SID THAT THE PERSON HE REALLY LOV IS CASSIE.SLOBS VERS SNOBS: WH TONY.--> THEME NAMG: SID'S FATHER'S SI OF THE FAY ARE ALL VARIANTS OF ALEXANR (ALEX, SANDY, LEX AND ALLY). SID SPOTS THAT HIS HE AND HIS FATHER (MARK) ARE THE ODD NAM OUT, MARKG THEM FOR BLACK SHEEP AND OUTST STAT.THIS LOSER IS YOU--> THE UN-FAVOURE: DPE THE FACT THAT HE HASN'T GOT ANY SIBLGS SID IS NSTANTLY OVERSHADOWED BY TONY. MR. JENKS' VOICE BE PLETELY DIFFERENT WHEN HE'S TALKG TO TONY, AS OPPOSED TO YELLG AT SID. AND HIS SEASON 2 EPISO, SID AND HIS DAD ARE BOTH UNFAVOR, TO HIS UNCLE AND S. VIRG-SHAMG: PLOT OF THE VERY FIRST EPISO.TONY: IT'S EMBARRASSG. SID: IT'S MON AND QUE NORMAL FOR SOMEONE OF SIXTEEN— TONY: —NO. IT'S EMBARRASSG, SID. SID: ..    CASSIE ASWORTH CASSANDRA "CASSIE" ASWORTHPLAYED BY: HANNAH MURRAY CENTRIC EPISOS: "CASSIE" (SERI 1), "CASSIE" (SERI 2), "PURE" (SERI 7) AMBIGUOLY BI: DURG HER PERD OF PROMISCUY AFTER HER SPL OM SID SERI 2, WE SEE HER SLEEP WH A WOMAN AS WELL AS A MAN. IT'S NOT CLEAR IF SHE'S ACTUALLY ATTRACTED TO EVERYONE SHE'S SLEEPG WH OR IF SHE'S JT TRYG TO SPE SID, THOUGH. BENEATH THE MASK: HER BOUNDLS ENERGY AND OUTWARD KDNS IS SHOWN TO HI A EPLY FLAWED PSYCHE, FILLED WH SELF-LOATHG AND ANGER.CASSIE: DO YOU KNOW WHAT HURTS THE MOST ABOUT A BROKEN HEART? NOT BEG ABLE TO REMEMBER HOW YOU FELT BEFORE. TRY AND KEEP THAT FEELG. BEE, GO... YOU'LL NEVER GET BACK. CHRIS: WHAT HAPPENS THEN? CASSIE: THEN YOU LAY WASTE TO THE WORLD. AND EVERYTHG . BREAKOUT CHARACTER: CASSIE PROVED EXPLOSIVELY POPULAR WH FANS, PECIALLY ON THE THEN-EMERGENT TUMBLR. SHE WAS ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS REVISED RX. BREAK THE CUTIE: HER ARC THE FIRST TWO SEASONS IS ONE GIANT TRMA CONGA LE. CALL-BACK: IN CASSIE'S FAL EPISO, SHE STRIK UP A FAST IENDSHIP WH ANOTHER TAXI DRIVER, WHO IDLY EMPHASIS HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT SHE EATS. UNLIKE ALAN, THOUGH, FRANK IS UNDOUBTEDLY NOT A FIGMENT OF HER IMAGATN. CATCHPHRASE: "OH. WOW. LOVELY." CHARACTER TIC: CASSIE HAS A HAB OF REWARDG ACTS OF KDNS TOWARDS HER WH A SPONTANEO KISS ON THE CHEEK. CLOUD CUCKOOLANR: SHE ACTS POSIVELY SPACEY THE FIRST SEASON. SHE EVENTUALLY GETS MORE GROUND THE SEND, AND BY THE SEVENTH, IS ABLE TO HOLD DOWN A JOB AND AN APARTMENT (ALBE A AD-END JOB AND A CRAPPY APARTMENT). COOL SHAS: QUE FOND OF SUNGLASS, WHICH PLAY UP HER QUEER MEANOUR. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: FREQUENTLY TEETERS BACK AND FORTH OVER THIS, HAVG LOW SELF-TEEM, SUICIDAL TENNCI, A HOST OF MENTAL ISSU, AND A SOCIAL AND ROMANTIC LIFE THAT NSTANTLY TTS HER EMOTNAL FORTU. CHRIS DYG HER ARMS, JT AS THGS WERE FALLY LOOKG UP, IS ENOUGH TO BREAK HER FOR THE RT OF THE SERI. DZY GENI: MALY SEASON 2. IN HER EPISO, SHE SPENDS MOST OF HER PHILOSOPHY EXAM CHATTG TO HER TEACHER AND DANCG TO "FUNKYTOWN." SHE SS DOWN TO WRE FOR THE LAST HOUR AND SEEMGLY AC THE TT. ON TOP OF THAT, CASSIE IS A GENI AT READG PEOPLE (ALMOST TELEPATHIC HER ACCURACY) AS WELL AS READG HEAVY BOOKS. DRIVEN TO SUICI / SPURNED TO SUICI. INTERPTED SUICI: THANKS TO JAL. DULL SURPRISE: OCSNALLY, SUCH AS WHEN SHE TCH JAL AND CHRIS HAVG SEX. THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPT: WHILE SHE'S NOT A RELATNSHIP WH HIM, THE ATH OF CHRIS FELY AFFECTS HER THIS WAY. GENI BOOK CLUB: LIKE TONY, SHE'S OFTEN SEEN READG BIG BOOKS THAT ARE THEMATILLY RELATED TO WHATEVER IS GOG ON AROUND HER, LIKE MARGARET ATWOOD'S THE EDIBLE WOMAN HER SERI 2 EPISO. GENKI GIRL: APPEARS THAT WAY AT FIRST. HE'S DEAD, JIM: HAS THIS REACTN WHEN CHRIS DI. I JT WANT TO BE BETIFUL: TOO BAD THAT HER IAS ABOUT ARE OF A KD: "I HAVEN'T EATEN FOR THREE DAYS, SO I ULD BE LOVELY". JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN THE LATER EPISOS. SHE'S A GOOD PERSON AT HEART BUT BE OPENLY LLO AND SPEFUL AFTER LEARNG ABOUT SID AND MICHELLE. LOVE HURTS: WH SID, PECIALLY SEASON 1, WHEN HIS IGNORG HER DROVE HER TO A SUICI ATTEMPT. KICK THE DOG: IN CHRIS' S2 EPISO, TRYG TO HURT JAL AND CHRIS (WHO'S BEEN LETTG HER STAY HIS FLAT) - FIRST TELLG JAL ABOUT ANGIE'S RETURN AND THEN LYG TO CHRIS THAT JAL LEFT HIM. MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL: OF THE "NSTCTED" VARIETY. SHE ISN'T JT QUIRKY, SHE HAS MULTIPLE LEGIMATE PSYCHOLOGIL PROBLEMS WHICH ARE PICTED WH ALL THE SERNS THEY REQUIRE. ALSO, SAID PROBLEMS ARE JT AS, IF NOT MORE, TEGRAL TO HER STORYLE AS HER RELATNSHIP WH SID. FURTHER, FOR ALL HER MPDG TRAPPGS, SID IS NOT PARTICULARLY RECEPTIVE TO HER PLUCKY OVERTUR AND THIS APPARENT DISTERT LEADS HER TO ATTEMPT SUICI; HIS LOVE EPIPHANY ONLY KICKS AFTER THE FACT. CASSIE ENDS UP PLAYG THE ROLE MORE NVENTNALLY TO JAL, OF ALL PEOPLE, ALBE A NON-ROMANTIC WAY. MISTAKEN FOR CHEATG: WHEN SID FDS OUT THAT SHE'S LIVG WH MEN STLAND HIS S2 EPISO. TURNS OUT THAT THE GUYS ARE GAY, BUT ONLY AFTER SID HAS TURNED OFF THE VIO LL AND JUMPED TO NCLNS.MOTOR MOUTH--> OBFTG INSANY: DPE HAVG REAL MENTAL HEALTH ISSU, SHE DO THIS AT TIM, SOMETIM BED WH OBFTG STUPIDY. IN CASSIE'S SEASON 2 EPISO, SHE ADMS THAT SHE STOPPED EATG BEE THEN EVERYONE HAD TO DO WHAT SHE SAID. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: FOR HER BROTHER, AS OF THE ENDG OF SKS:PURE. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH CHRIS, WHICH IS WHY HIS ATH RULTS A RARE PLATONIC EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPT FOR HER. THE OPHELIA: PLAYED WH THROUGHOUT THE TWO SERI. IT N WHIPLASH BETWEEN FUNNY ("I'M THKG OF LEAVG SCHOOL, GROWG A BEARD, AND JOG THE CIRC") TO JT PLA DISTURBG (EFFY'S SEASON 2 EPISO.)QUIRKY CURLS--> REALLY GETS AROUND: AN INFORMED ATTRIBUTE UNTIL SEASON 2. THE RUNAWAY: WHEN SHE RETURNS OM STLAND. SELF-HARM: ALTHOUGH NEVER SHOWN, 'S MENTNED HER SEASON TWO EPISO. SEX GODSS: SHE'S MENTNED TO BE REALLY GREAT THE SACK DUE TO SLEEPG AROUND A LOT, WHICH IS PART OF WHY MICHELLE PICKS HER TO BE THE GIRL TO TAKE SID'S VIRGY.SLAP-SLAP-KISS: WH SID SEASON 2.--> THE SOCIAL EXPERT: TAK TO AN ALMOST TELEPATHIC LEVEL, PECIALLY SEASON 2.STICKY FGERS--> STEPFORD SER: SHE MANAG TO BE ALL THREE TYP AT VAR POTS, WH HOW AGILE HER MENTAL STATE IS. THROUGH THE EY OF MADNS: IN HER SEASON 1 EPISO, SHE KEEPS GETTG TEXTS TELLG HER TO EAT! ON HER PHONE, AND SEEG THE WORD SPELLED OUT ELSEWHERE. NOBODY IS TEXTG HER. THEY ARE ALL JT HALLUCATNS. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: IN SEASON 2 WHEN SHE BE A JERKASS WOOBIE FOR A TIME. WEIGHT WOE: CASSIE SUFFERS OM ANOREXIA NERVOSA AND STARV HERSELF ORR TO GET TH. (MOST OF THE TIME.)WOMAN SRNED: THROUGHOUT SEASON 2.-->    CHRIS MIL CHRIS MILPLAYED BY: JOE DEMPSIE CENTRIC EPISOS: "CHRIS" (SERI 1), "CHRIS" (SERI 2) ANTIHERO: SPECIFILLY, THE CLASSIL ANTI-HERO. BLOOD OM THE MOUTH: WHEN HE DI, HE VOMS AND HAS BLOOD E OM BOTH HIS MOUTH AND NOSE. CAN'T GET AWAY WH NUTH': LIFE JT SEEMS TO KEEP THROWG CHRIS MORE AND MORE LEMONS. CATCHPHRASE: "FUCK ". DIED YOUR ARMS TONIGHT: IN CASSIE'S ARMS, AS SHE TRI SPERATELY TO LL FOR AN AMBULANCE. FUN T-SHIRT: NOT AS PRONOUNCED AS SID'S, BUT HE DO ENJOY THEM. LIFE OF THE PARTY: EVEN AMONG A ST FULL OF PARTIERS, CHRIS IS PARTICULARLY EXTREME.MALE FRONTAL NUDY--> NEW JOB EPISO: HIS SEASON 2 EPISO IS ABOUT HIM FDG A JOB AS A REALTOR. NICE GUY: CHRIS IS REALLY A GENUELY ALTISTIC PERSON. HE DO LOVE PARTYG, BUT UNLIKE SOMEONE LIKE TONY, HE DON'T HAVE AN ULTERR MOTIVE BEYOND PARTYG, AND IS A SWEETHEART.OBI-WAN MOMENT--> OPPOS ATTRACT: WH JAL. ADMTEDLY, THOUGH, WAS ONLY AFTER EACH OF THEM BROUGHT OUT A LTLE OF EACH OTHER - CHRIS GETTG JAL TO SHOW HER WILR SI, AND JAL GETTG CHRIS TO MAKE RPONSIBLE CISNS. PARENTAL ABANDONMENT: HE HAS TO FD A JOB JT TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO LIVE. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH CASSIE, WHICH IS WHY HIS ATH RULTS A RARE PLATONIC EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPT FOR HER. SEND LOVE: WHEN HE CHOOS JAL OVER ANGIE. THE STONER: PERHAPS ALSO THE EDE STONER. TEACHER/STUNT ROMANCE: WH ANGIE, WHO HE FIRST HOOKS UP WH WHILE RSIA AND AGA ONCE THEY RETURN TO BRISTOL. TEENY WEENIE: IMPLIED TWICE FIRST TWO EPISOS. WHILE THE FIRST MENTN ULD PASS AS A HARSH JOKE, THE SEND ONE NTAED JAL AND CASSIE TAKG PY ON HIM BEE OF THAT. TOO GOOD FOR THIS SFUL EARTH: HE'S ONE OF THE GENTLT PEOPLE HIS CIRCLE OF IENDS, WHICH MAK HIS ATH ALL THE MORE TRAGIC. TRMA CONGA LE: HIS BACKSTORY, WHICH VOLV LOSG A PARENT AND A BROTHER AND THE OTHER PARENT'S DIFFERENCE. THE UNFAVORE: HOW HIS PARENTS TREAT HIM. HIS DAD EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO ONLY HAVE PHOTOS OF PETER. UPTIGHT LOV WILD: GENR FLIPPED WH JAL, THOUGH NOTABLY THEY ONLY GET TOGETHER AFTER HE TRI TO BRG OUT HER WILD SI AND SHE GETS HIM TO BE RPONSIBLE. WRONG GUY FIRST: ANGIE IS THE WRONG GIRL FIRST.    JAL FAZER JALANR "JAL" FAZERPLAYED BY: LARISSA WILSON CENTRIC EPISOS: "JAL" (SERI 1), "JAL" (SERI 2) BLACK AND NERDY:CHRIS: YOU DON'T HAVE SEX, DO YOU? YOU HAVE CLARET LSONS. CLOSER TO EARTH: COMPARED TO THE SPACEY CASSIE, THE SOCPATHIC TONY, THE MOODY MICHELLE, OR THE WILD CHRIS, SHE'S VERY MUCH A LOGIL FORCE THEIR LIV. ELEGANT CLASSIL MICIAN: SHE PLAYS THE CLARET, AND IS QUE SOPHISTITED.THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPT--> GOOD GIRLS AVOID ABORTN: AVERTED WHEN JAL GETS AN ABORTN SERI 2, SO SHE N NTUE ON WH HER MIC STUDI AT UNI. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH MICHELLE. THEY'VE BEEN PALS SCE 4TH GRA AND ARE EACH OTHER'S SUPPORT SYSTEM. ONLY SANE WOMAN: TENDS TO PLAY THE VOICE OF REASON AMONG THE CHARACTERS. OPPOS ATTRACT: WH CHRIS. ADMTEDLY, THOUGH, WAS ONLY AFTER EACH OF THEM BROUGHT OUT A LTLE OF EACH OTHER - CHRIS GETTG JAL TO SHOW HER WILR SI, AND JAL GETTG CHRIS TO MAKE RPONSIBLE CISNS. THE SMART GUY: SHE TENDS TO PLAY THIS ROLE, EVEN THOUGH TONY AND CASSIE ARE ARGUABLY SMARTER. SHE CLEANS UP NICELY: IN HER SEASON 1 EPISO. TO THE POT, WHERE... STUPID SEXY FLANRS: .. HOMOSEXUAL MAXXIE STARTS DROOLG OVER HER. TEAM MOM: SHE'S VERY TENR WH THE GROUP, WHICH MAY BE DUE TO HER PARATIVELY PRIVILEGED BACKGROUND. TEEN PREGNANCY: WH CHRIS'S CHILD, WHICH SHE CHOOS TO ABORT ORR TO FOC ON HER STUDI. TOKEN MORY: UNLS WE UNT POSH KENH, SHE'S THE ONLY BLACK MEMBER OF THE GROUP. UPTIGHT LOV WILD: GENR FLIPPED WH CHRIS, THOUGH NOTABLY THEY ONLY GET TOGETHER AFTER HE TRI TO BRG OUT HER WILD SI AND SHE GETS HIM TO BE RPONSIBLE. YOU ARE A CRED TO YOUR RACE: GETS A SPEECH LIKE THIS OM THE SCHOOL ADMISTRATN WHEN SHE'S BEG TERVIEWED FOR BEG A BBC YOUNG MICIAN OF THE YEAR FALIST. THEY GO ON AND ON ABOUT HOW JAL IS OM A "DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUND" WHEN, ACTUALLY, HER FATHER IS A FAMO MICIAN AND SHE'S PROBABLY THE MOST WELL-OFF OF HER IEND GROUP.    MAXXIE OLIVER MAXXIE OLIVERPLAYED BY: MCH HEWER CENTRIC EPISOS: "MAXIE AND ANWAR" (SERI 1), "TONY AND MAXXIE" (SERI 2) ALL GAYS LOVE THEATER: DANCG IS MORE HIS THG, BUT HE DO LOVE THE THEATER. CAMP GAY: MOSTLY AVERTED: HE LOV DANCG AND THEATRE, BUT HE'S NOT FLAMBOYANT ANY SENSE OF THE WORD, AND WOULD RATHER BE "ONE OF THE LADS." CLUB KID: ALTHOUGH HE'S ONE OF THE MOST BALANCED CHARACTERS OF THE SHOW AND IS ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS WHO ISN'T SEEN G DGS. GAYNGST: NOTABLY AVERTED. MAXXIE'S OPEN HOMOSEXUALY ISN'T A PROBLEM FOR HIM, HIS FAY OR IENDS. IT'S ANWAR WHO HAS TO GET OVER THE ISSUE, NOT MAXXIE. "GENR-NORMATIVE PARENT" PLOT: MUCH OF THE STORY NOT HAVG TO DO WH TONY THEIR JOT SEASON 2 EPISO. EVEN THE GUYS WANT HIM: AT ONE POT, WHEN CHRIS NEED CLOTH (LONG STORY), MAXXIE MANAGED TO GET PANTS FOR HIM BY CHARMG THEM OFF OF A RANDOM GUY. AND OF URSE THERE'S HIS DALLIANCE WH TONY. THE HEART: HE'S (WH POSSIBLE EXCEPTN OF CHRIS) THE NICT, MOST RG AND (WH NO EXCEPTNS) EMOTNALLY STABLE MEMBER OF THE GROUP. IT'S PECIALLY EVINT THE SEND SEASON WHEN HE TAK RE OF TONY. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH ANWAR, ALTHOUGH OBVLY M THE "HETEROSEXUAL" AS FAR AS MAXXIE GO. MR. FANSERVICE: IRONILLY ENOUGH, HE PROVIS A FAIR AMOUNT OF MALE FANSERVICE FOR THE LADI (NOT THAT THE FELLAS DON'T LIKE , MD YOU). NICE GUY: MAXXIE IS FELY ON THE NICER SI OF THE SPECTM WH HIS CIRCLE OF IENDS, AND HAS NO REAL DYSFUNCTNS TO SPEAK OF. ONLY SANE MAN: HE SHAR THIS ROLE WH JAL. HE STILL HAS HIS ISSU, BUT HE HANDL THEM A LOT BETTER THAN MOST OF HIS IENDS. PERFORMANCE ARTIST: HE'S A FAN OF SHOWMANSHIP. HE SISTS UPON PUTTG A TAP-DANCG NUMBER DEATH OF A SALMAN. SHIRTLS SCENE: WH NUDY—ONE ()FAMO EXAMPLE IS WHEN A STALKER IS HIDG HIS ROOM AND MAXXIE ARRIV TO GO TO SLEEP. HIS FIRST ACT IS TO STRIP OFF THE SUPERMAN STUME HE'S WEARG. SLEEPS THE NU: SLEEPS NAKED, MUCH TO SKETCH'S JOY WHEN SHE BREAKS TO HIS ROOM. STRAIGHT GAY: AS HE HIMSELF PUTS , HE'S "ONE OF THE LADS." TEAM DAD: COM WH THE TERRORY OF BEG THE ONLY SANE MAN, HE TENDS TO LOOK AFTER THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE GROUP, PECIALLY TONY AFTER HIS ACCINT. THOSE TWO GUYS: WH ANWAR, PARTICULARLY THE FIRST SERI.    ANWAR KHARRAL ANWAR KHARRALPLAYED BY: DEV PATEL CENTRIC EPISOS: "MAXXIE AND ANWAR" (SERI 1) ALL ASIANS KNOW MARTIAL ARTS: AN EXTEMELY RARE SOUTH ASIAN EXAMPLE. BUT HE IS OF PAKISTANI SCENT, THE ONLY ASIAN OF HIS GENERATN AND HAPPENS TO BE THE ONLY ONE TO KNOW HOW TO FIGHT OFF A BUNCH OF THUGS THAT GATE CRASHED A PARTY. HE APPEARS TO BE A TAEKWONDO FIGHTER GOG OFF HIS KICKS AND HIS ACTOR'S MARTIAL ARTS BACKGROUND. ASIAN AIRHEAD: DOWNPLAYED, BUT HE'S SOUTH ASIAN AND QUE DZY. BIG GUY: DOWNPLAYED. BUT HE IS THE SEND-TALLT OF THE GENERATN ONE ST AT 6'1"(TONY IS 6'3") AND IS SHOWN TO BE A SKILLED MARTIAL ARTIST. BUTT-MONKEY: MOST OF THE HUMOR SURROUNDG HIM AT HIS EXPENSE. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: HE'S ALWAYS BEEN MAXXIE'S BT FRIEND AND THEY DO EVERYTHG TOGETHER. CROUCHG MORON, HIDN BADASS: DPE BEG THE CLOWN OF THE GROUP. ANWAR N BEAT UP THUGS G TAEKWONDO KICKS (THANKS TO DEV PATEL BEG A BLACK BELT REAL LIFE) FAKE NATNALY: ANWAR IS A BRISH PAKISTANI MLIM PLAYED BY DEV PATEL WHO IS A BRISH INDIAN HDU OF GUJARATI ETHNICY. HIDN DEPTHS: DPE HIS MR. VICE GUY TENNCI AND MANCHILD BEHAVUR. HE IS STILL A VOUT MLIM WHEN TO PRAYER AND IS ALSO SHOWN TO BE A SKILLED MARTIAL ARTIST. LIK OLR WOMEN: IN ONE EPISO HE VOLLY EXPRS HIS SIRE TO HAVE SEX WH AN OLR WOMAN. MR. VICE GUY: DPE HIS RELIGN'S RTRICTIVE TEACHGS. ANWAR LOV TO DRK, SMOKE AND FORNITE AS MUCH AS EVERYONE ELSE THE ST. PLUCKY COMIC RELIEF: ESPECIALLY TE SEASON 2, WHERE ANWAR'S STORYLE SEEMED TO EXIST TO PROVI A B OF A FUN MOOD WHIPLASH THE MIDST OF THE DARKER AND EDGIER ARCS SURROUNDG THE OTHER CHARACTERS. RELIG BISER: A HEDONISTIC MLIM THAT KEEPS UP WH HIS SALAT (5 DAILY PRAYERS) AND N KICK ASS TAEKWONDO STYLE. SLEEPS THE NU: HE'S SHOWN TO SLEEP NAKED A FEW TIM. PLAYED FOR LGHS WHEN HIS FAY ATTEMPTS TO SURPRISE HIM ON THE MORNG OF HIS BIRTHDAY LEADG TO A BIRTHDAY SU SURPRISE PARTY AND HIM TO HAVE A NAKED FREAK-OUT. STRAW HYPOCRE: ANWAR IS PERFECTLY FE BREAKG ISLAM'S L REGARDG DGS, DRKG AND PREMARAL SEX, BUT SUDNLY CLGS TO HIS RELIGN AS AN EXCE FOR HIS HOMOPHOBIA. MAXXIE LLS HIM OUT ON THEIR EPISO. THOSE TWO GUYS: WH MAXXIE, PARTICULARLY THE FIRST SERI. TEENY WEENIE: HE'S VERY UNR-ENDOWED, TO THE POT EVEN HIS SISTERS AND MOTHER MOCK HIM FOR . POSSIBLY A SUBVERSN, AS THE RSIAN GIRL ANKA, WHOM HE HAS SEX WH, SEEMS IMPRSED BY HIS HARDNS, WHICH ULD MEAN THAT HE'S A GROWER AND NOT A SHOWER. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: TOWARDS THE END OF SEASON 1 REGARDG MAXXIE'S HOMOSEXUALY. HE GETS BETTER AFTER HIS FATHER TALKS SOME SENSE TO HIM AND REPAIRS THEIR IENDSHIP. TWOFER TOKEN MORY: ANWAR IS BOTH MLIM AND PAKISTANI, AND IS THE ONLY ONE OF BOTH THE GROUP.    SKETCH  LUCY / "SKETCH"PLAYED BY: AIMEE-FFN EDWARDS CENTRIC EPISOS: "SKETCH" (SERI 2) ABHORRENT ADMIRER: CREEPY, SLIGHTLY UNHGED AND HAS NO RPECT FOR MAXXIE'S SEXUALY. ALAS, POOR VILLA: SHE IS FAR MORE PATHETIC THAN SHE IS MALIC. CREEPY CROSSDRSER: DOWNPLAYED. SHE'S TRYG TO MAKE HERSELF LOOK "AS CLOSE TO A BOY AS YOU N GET" FOR MAXXIE BUT NO-ONE WOULD BE FOOLED. DID NOT GET THE GUY: TWICE, BOTH WHEN MAXXIE REJECTS HER BEE OF THEIR PATIBLE ORIENTATNS AND WHEN ANWAR LEAV HER TO GO TO LONDON WH MAXXIE. I JT WANT TO HAVE FRIENDS: SHE'S A LONELY GIRL AND EXPRS AN TERT BEG PART OF THE GROUP. ALTHOUGH SHE PENNTLY BEIENDS MICHELLE AND ANWAR, AFTER THE TTH OF HER STALKG OUT SHE QUICKLY LOS ANY HOPE OF JOG THE GANG. INPATIBLE ORIENTATN: SHE'S MADLY LOVE WH MAXXIE, WHO IS GAY. BIZARRELY, SKETCH KNOWS THIS, BUT THKS SHE N GET AROUND BY DRSG BOYISH. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: EVERYONE EXCEPT HER MOTHER REFERS TO HER AS "SKETCH" AND HER ACTUAL FIRST NAME UP ONLY ONCE. HER LAST NAME IS NEVER MENTNED. PLUCKY GIRL: THE LIST OF THE ACTNS SHE WAS WILLG TO UNRTAKE TO GET TO MAXXIE CLUS: STALKG, BREAKG TO HIS HOE AND SPENDG THE ENTIRE NIGHT UNR HIS BED, AN ELABORATE PLAN OF HIJACKG A SCHOOL PLAY WH POISONG AN NOCENT AND GETTG A TEACHER FIRED BY FALSELY ACCG HIM OF SEXUAL ABE ON THE WAY, MORE STALKG AND SCREWG MAXXIE'S BT IEND. AND SOME TIRE SLASHG THE SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS. SHE'S A VERY DARK EXAMPLE, BUT YOU HAVE TO GIVE TO HER, THE GIRL HAS TERMATN. STALKER WH A CSH: TOWARDS MAXXIE, TO THE POT OF BREAKG TO HIS BEDROOM AND HIDG UNR HIS BED. YANRE: SHE'S NOT VLENT LIKE THIS TROPE UALLY IMPLI, BUT SHE'S FELY UNSTABLE AND DON'T REALLY RE WHO SHE HAS TO HURT TO GET TO MAXXIE. FAY

When me to sexualy, the first generatn of ‘Sks’ featured an openly gay character, Maxxie, whose bt iend is Anwar, who is said to have a “pick-and-choose approach Islam” which he’s fe wh participatg dg e and premaral sex (which are agast Islamic views), but has trouble g to terms wh Maxxie’s sexualy. The Jabs men share a rage rooted self-hate, one that clearly monstrat the rrelatn between homophobia and misogyny.

MICHAEL TOMASKY ON SANTOM’S GAY LOVE THE JAN. 8 DEBATEKUDOSIT’S UNCLEAR WHETHER ANYONE BELIEVED RICK SANTOM WHEN HE SAID HE’D LOVE HIS SON EVEN IF HE WERE GAY, SAYS MICHAEL TOMASKY.MICHAEL TOMASKYSPECIAL CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 13, 2017 10:28AM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 08, 2012 11:14AM EST CHARL KPA / AP PHOTOGENERAL OBSERVATN: LOTS OF HEAT, PECIALLY BETWEEN NEWT GGRICH AND MT ROMNEY. GGRICH MAY HAVE LAND A BLOW ON THE REER POLICIAN CHARGE, BUT ROMNEY IS SO FAR AHEAD RIGHT NOW. IT SEEMS DIFFICULT TO IMAGE HIS SUPPORT LLAPSG TWO DAYS. ON OTHER ARROWS FIRED HIS WAY, I THOUGHT HE FLECTED THEM PRETTY EFFECTIVELY. AS THE GUY WHO LLED SANTOM’S RISE, I STILL FD HIM TERTG AND AM VERY CUR ABOUT WHETHER HE’LL GET 10 PERCENT OF THE VOTE ON TUDAY OR 25, BEE EHER OR ANYTHG BETWEEN SEEMS POSSIBLE. HE HAD A GOOD MOMENT, I THOUGHT, WH HIS ANSWER TO THE QUTN ABOUT HOW HE’D REACT IF ONE OF HIS SONS WERE TO ANNOUNCE THAT HE’S GAY. SANTOM: “I’D LOVE HIM JT AS MUCH AS I DID THE SEND BEFORE HE TOLD ME.” GENERAL APPLSE TO THIS. I’M NOT 100 PERCENT PERSUAD THAT THIS IS REALLY AND FULLY AND PLETELY TE, EHER SANTOM’S SE OR THE DIENCE’S, BUT EVERYONE KNOWS ’S WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, AND HE MANAGED TO SAY WH SEEMG NVICTN. AND PROBABLY HELPED HIM APPEAR TO BE FAR LS EXTREME ON THE MATTERS THAN HE ACTUALLY IS (HE MIGHT LOVE THAT SON AS MUCH, BUT HE IS ON RERD AS SAYG HE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SON OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT HE CHOOS HIS BEDROOM). ROMNEY GOT OFF A GOOD LE DURG THE GAY QUTNG WHEN DAVID GREGORY ASKED HIM WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME HE’D DONE SOMETHG TO SUPPORT THE GAY MUNY, AND HE SAID, “RIGHT NOW.” IT WAS CLEVER, BUT NOT TE. WORKED A PRIMARY BATE, WON’T A GENERAL.SANTOM DIDN’T GET MUCH ON THE ENOMY, AND THAT MAY HURT HIM. AS RADIL AS HE IS, HE’S THE ONLY ONE OF THE BUNCH WHO EVEN WORDS LIKE “MIDDLE CLASS” AND “MANUFACTURG,” BUT HE DID NOT MANAGE TO GET THAT PART OF HIS PACKAGE ACROSS. I’D GUS HE DIDN’T MANAGE TO HELP HIMSELF THAT MUCH, BUT IF ROMNEY WAS FACT HURT, THAT VOTE HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE. AND SCE SANTOM’S STILL ON THE UPSWG, HE’S A MORE PLSIBLE NDIDATE FOR THAN GGRICH OR RON PL—ALTHOUGH PERHAPS NOT MORE THAN JON HUNTSMAN, WHO HAD HIS MOMENTS THIS MORNG BUT STILL PROBABLY N'T BE PETIVE SOUTH CAROLA OR FLORIDA.MICHAEL TOMASKY

Remember when the gang went on a school trip to Rsia and Maxxie was super sad about his bt mate Anwar beg all funny about him beg gay? (Image cred: Channel 4)Mch Hewer (Maxxie Oliver)As Anwar’s openly gay bt iend, Maxxie, we have Mch Hewer.

In one episo of Sks, Tony attempts to make a move on Maxxie (Mch Hewer), the group’s qutsential gay character. He's a b new, he's a b ol, he's a b gay.