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The realism doesn't extend to the exaggerated characters and plots, but if you focus on the sharp dialogue (and aren't an easily worried parent), these students earn a solid ... B.
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It's all elevated by looking really beautiful (though not -- and this is the crucial difference -- stylish). The pictures fill in the blanks, and even as Skins strains credibility, it achieves moments of poetry.
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I nearly wrote off Skins after the first episode. But as it continued--I've now seen three, the first two of which will air back-to-back on Sunday--I found some of the characters, including a dreamy anorexic named Cassie (Hannah Murray), starting to get under my own skin.
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So, to sum up: decadent and adult, but too entertaining to be this week's harbinger of the apocalypse.
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The glimpses of old-fashioned heart in Sid’s story, and the characters’ deadpan humor, make this show a mildly intriguing chronicle of youth.
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The show is subtitled, which helps viewers understand the thick accents and British slang, but the whole thing is a bit nihilistic and the characters come across as somewhat debased.
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Despite fine elements, then, the show feels a trifle rudderless--content to deal in edgy high-school archetypes (a gay kid, an irreverent Muslim youth, even one boy with a "Dawson's"-like crush on his teacher), but archetypes nevertheless.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 148 out of 160
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Mixed: 3 out of 160
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Negative: 9 out of 160
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BeckyWMar 22, 2009Skins is edgy, cutting-edge and very realistic. Very, very realistic... and that's coming from a British teenager!
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AdamH.Feb 5, 2009this is a great show and very realistic of teens in Britain. im from england and this is how a lot of schools and colleges are like!!
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luciMay 15, 2009