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||Release_Me||||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I'm obviously coming quite late to this show, but i've now caught up on series 1 and i've started series 2.

This show proves that the UK are still capable of making good TV. I love this how, the characters are all interesting and it runs a lot deeper than i thought it would.

Michelle and Cassie are lovely :)
"This town deserves a better class of criminal... and I'm gonna give it to them."

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  • chimechime Posts: 7,839
    Like Sid you will have to chose between them :D

    I liked it. Will be interesting to see how series 3 goes with them getting a whole new cast.
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Skins makes me angry to be honest.

    :o

    It's very patronising, cynical television and clearly made by middle-aged producers and writers who either wish they were still a teenager or wish it was acceptable for them to still act like one, having sex with other teenagers, drugs and all without people, quite rightly, thinking that would be inappropriate.

    I kept trying to like it because I knew that I could just look at it like "it's supposed to be this bad and it's so bad it's good" but that was little consolation when I realised I'd lost another hour to a programme where the kid from About A Boy walks about in his boxers in almost every scene and has druggy sex with a slew of obnoxious teenage girls :(

    EDIT: In spite of the above, I actually enjoy Hollyoaks so I'm not judging anyone for liking Skins :D I just don't think it redeems itself in the same way as Hollyoaks does (dealing with serious issues/not being so self-consciously "hip")
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • ||Release_Me||||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Skins makes me angry to be honest.

    :o

    It's very patronising, cynical television and clearly made by middle-aged producers and writers who either wish they were still a teenager or wish it was acceptable for them to still act like one, having sex with other teenagers, drugs and all without people, quite rightly, thinking that would be inappropriate.

    I kept trying to like it because I knew that I could just look at it like "it's supposed to be this bad and it's so bad it's good" but that was little consolation when I realised I'd lost another hour to a programme where the kid from About A Boy walks about in his boxers in almost every scene and has druggy sex with a slew of obnoxious teenage girls :(

    EDIT: In spite of the above, I actually enjoy Hollyoaks so I'm not judging anyone for liking Skins :D I just don't think it redeems itself in the same way as Hollyoaks does (dealing with serious issues/not being so self-consciously "hip")

    That's a fair opinion, but i'm definitely not with you when it comes to Hollyoaks. Bad acting, bad writing and it comes across as very melodramatic and weak.

    I don't want to have to choose between Michelle and Cassie, they both have likeable qualities!
    "This town deserves a better class of criminal... and I'm gonna give it to them."

  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    ||Release_Me|| wrote:
    That's a fair opinion, but i'm definitely not with you when it comes to Hollyoaks. Bad acting, bad writing and it comes across as very melodramatic and weak.

    I don't want to have to choose between Michelle and Cassie, they both have likeable qualities!
    Oh don't get me wrong, Hollyoaks is terrible, I just find it fun to watch :D Skins, on the other hand, just kind of disgusts me.

    Plus, it provided a platform for putting Harry Enfield back on TV which can NEVER be a good thing :o
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • ||Release_Me||||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Oh don't get me wrong, Hollyoaks is terrible, I just find it fun to watch :D Skins, on the other hand, just kind of disgusts me.

    Plus, it provided a platform for putting Harry Enfield back on TV which can NEVER be a good thing :o

    lol, there have been some weird guest stars for sure. I just finished an episode with Shane Richie in it and he was American!
    "This town deserves a better class of criminal... and I'm gonna give it to them."

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