Skins

[Nedson]

Inbetweeners is absolute genius

Skins is pretty much on a par with Hollyoaks. Terrible but with more drugs/humping

[rachbon]

the last series of skins was almost unwatchable at times, cook is the only one who can act.

[rexclark]

I don't think it's fair compairing Skins and The Inbetweeners as they're two different types of show. It would be like compairing Only Fools and Horses with Frost, both have simililarites but are both also completely different.

For what it's worth Inbetweeners relates much more to my teenage years than Skins ever could.

[BlackHole2006]

I don't think it's fair compairing Skins and The Inbetweeners as they're two different types of show. It would be like compairing Only Fools and Horses with Frost, both have simililarites but are both also completely different.

For what it's worth Inbetweeners relates much more to my teenage years than Skins ever could.

[jump]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12264058

US Skins has aired and is being called child porn and is being investigated by the government.

[Paul ™]

New series starts on Thursday on E4.

Was not impressed with the last 2 series of it, hopefully with another new cast it might be a bit better. Will give it a try anyway

[BlackHole2006]

I'm hoping that this news series will be back on form because in my opinion the last series was terrible.

I'm not expecting much but I'll give it a watch.

[rexclark]

I see there's uproar in America over their version, hardly surprising, they'll be outraged by anything.

[BlackHole2006]

I see there's uproar in America over their version, hardly surprising, they'll be outraged by anything.

Edited January 24, 2011 by BlackHole2006

[lost]

It is from what I read on side reel, except the gay boy has been swapped for a lesbian, the uproar is over sexually explicit scenes involving under 18's, Some states have the age of consent set at 18.

[rexclark]

The American one looks awful.

[Gre]

An American friend of mine who loved the early UK Skins said the US one is shit. I don't think I'll bother checking it out. The british Sid & Cassie pissed me off enough. Hopefully series 5 of ours will look up- the cast look so young though! (ie I'm getting old)

I believe the furore in the US is because some of the actors are under 18 and in sex scenes. Accusations of child porn and all that.

[minute5072]

I guarantee 90% of the people who are outraged haven't seen it

[LondonTom]

Yeah I am going give it a go again, mind I said that for the two series and ended up watching to see what happened. They've changed the produce or something this time, so hopefully it be better than the last 2 /3 (3 wasn't so bad, it had its moments and plus it had cassie and sid!!!).

The american outrage is brilliant, just brilliant, I spose it can be lil more graphic than maybe more implied stuff...

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

I guarantee 90% of the people who are outraged haven't seen it

[rachbon]

i think the girl who played effie in the UK skins was only 15 when she filmed some sex scenes. no one seemed bothered about that.

Edited January 25, 2011 by _rachelbon

[jump]

I find it funny that they need the US government to come in and investigate if it's child porn or not.

[rexclark]

Typical American outrage.

[brighteyes]

i think the girl who played effie in the UK skins was only 15 when she filmed some sex scenes. no one seemed bothered about that.

[Elbear]

So farfetched. It always has been but a shadow of the program I enjoyed years ago.

Although I could be jumping the gun here, so I'll give it a shot.

[Paul ™]

Not too impressed so far (apart from the soundtrack!)

Looks like they are focusing on 1 main character per week again, prefered it when they don't do that.

[brighteyes]

Not too impressed so far (apart from the soundtrack!)

Looks like they are focusing on 1 main character per week again, prefered it when they don't do that.

[Jackmypie]

Gotta be honest. This was absolute shite... Apart from the music of course.

[adustlandfairytale]

‎6 minuites into skins and ave seen a lesbo look a like heeder a wee boy and crash a mobility scooter and a guy with a minted afro! Yet it somehow turned shite!

[Gre]

Music was awesome, as has been said- Shazam constantly at the ready!

However.... it seemed like a good amount of it was written by 16yr olds, lots of dreadfulness. The speech when they were running/hockeying sounded awful as well!

I like the one-character style, especially in the first series of a cast. It sets Skins apart from any old teen drama.

Overall, some bad bits - who keeps a link to their daughter's hate page on the desktop of the family computer? - but I liked the ending and next week's looks a bit more fun

Best of all; no Cook character so far

Edited January 28, 2011 by Gre