Skam France check-in: Episode 7! This season continues to astonish me with the care and quality being put into this season. I maintain that this may be the best Skam season France has ever produced. This week, we see the fallout of Anaïs speaking up about her assault: Hugo continues to gaslight and continually tries to manipulate her; Clement takes Hugo’s side & reveals that he (& the rest of the handball team) has seen Anaïs’ nude photos. But with the fallout comes resistance & strength: Lola, Maya, Sasha, Jo and Tiff protect and stand with Anaïs at school; the nurse assures her that Anaïs did nothing wrong by sending those photos & it’s entirely on Hugo; her parents come with her when she goes to file a criminal complaint. Skam France also shows the intricacies of dealing with the criminal justice system as a survivor: people whisper about Anaïs as she goes to the front desk to make a complaint, the front desk man is cold, distant when she requests to give her statement to a woman and merely says “he’ll see what he can do.” The woman taking her statement has to stop the testimony to explain the process of the investigation as no one gave Anaïs any information before sending her in. And of course, the testimony that Anaïs has to give forces her to relive one of the worst nights of her life. She is exhausted, she is traumatized, she is alone in a room with a stranger. But still, with that pain comes affirmation. The policewoman assures Anaïs that her feelings of astonishment at the time of her rape aren’t out of the ordinary for survivors. She couldn’t help how her body reacted. It went into survival mode. This episode was so good at continuing to show the nuances that survivors go through when they open up about their experiences. I’m excited to see the end of the season & what will happen with the start of the official investigation. See you next week!
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