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Uploaded by on Jun 14, 2008

http://aerialtelly.co.uk/skins-season-2.php

But Skins has to have young scriptwriters, right? Because they know what's relevant to the kids. So you sacrifice good drama for that abysmal tyrant 'relevance'. A lot of the show's problems stem from this. Skins tries way too hard to be cool and ends up looking ridiculous in the process. It doesn't know what it wants to be. Season 2 kicks off with a contemporary dance set piece in a church. Then it spends much of its time thinking it's a farce yet it still wants to deal seriously with issues like bulimia, bereavement and pupil-teacher relationships. Its complete inability to portray a grown-up who is not a grotesque caricature of everything vile about humanity is just laughable. No wonder Harry Enfield is so comfortable in his role as Tony's dad. Loadsamoney was an understated study of the nouveau riche in comparison. This approach is hugely patronising to its younger audience and hugely sick-making to its older audience. It can't help feeling like The Young Ones' young adult show - Nozin Around. "Hey man, grownups are squares yeah?" Did you ever see that in the great American teen dramas Buffy, My So-Called Life, Veronica Mars? The fuck you did.

I'm not really sure what Skins is for. It seems to be a place where occasionally amusing characters intersect, walk around bumping into things for an hour, deal with an implausible crisis with an equally implausible denouement then piss off home having learned nothing. In this, it's a lot like real life but the day all drama does is reflect real life is the day it no longer matters. If we want real life, it's all around us. It's not like Skins is bad most of the time. But when it is bad, it's practically unwatchable.

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  • ahh awesom!!

  • Does anyone know what song is playing?

  • lol well this looks shit

  • personally, i think that yes, many of the situations are pretty implausible. however, i think this is especially the case in season 2 as opposed to season 1.

    on the other hand, while some of the situations are pretty ridiculous (eg. coffin stealing), it IS tv, and entertainment. there has to be some sort of fantastic situations to keep audiences hooked, yes?

  • Do not agree at all with the description.

    You say some scenes are totally ridiculous, fortunately you say that: it means you're not dealing with those kind of situations ! God bless you, however, there are some kids who live these situations for real... This is why Skins is not plausible for most f the teenagers who watch it: they can't understand and this is the only mistake the "young scriptwiters" you mention did.

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