Diagonaldi Very well executed

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

rainabosniac I'm going to start by saying what drove me to watch this series. I thought the concept of a new cast every two seasons a very interesting idea, which it definitely was. What they didn't manage though, was to make all the generations equally good. I also needed a slightly stupid, but also fun and easy to watch teen drama, which this was. It's not one of them series where you don't get anything about it and it's dull, it actually was fun and I enjoyed watching it. (Surprisingly, I'm actually considering rewatching the first season, something which I don't really do.)The first generation was the best. It was realistic, relatable and it actually resembled not too rebellious teen's lives. The first season introductory and the secong one was a bit more dramatic and darker, something which I wasn't too excited about, but it actually turned out to be quite good.The second generation wasn't as good as the first one. I feel like the characters weren't thought out properly. It just was wrong in so many ways. The third season was okay, not as good as I expected it to be after watching the first generation, but still not too bad. The fourth season was way too melodramatic, including suicides and murders. I was also a bit gutted about another character dying. I didn't watch the third generation and I don't plan on doing it. I read a lot of reviews and most of them advised against watching it or just watching the fith season. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but I'm going to write an update if I watch it.Overall, I'd say: give it a shot. It's not too bad, just not fully my taste, I guess. But I didn't give it eight stars for nothing, did I?

SnoopyStyle This British TV show follows a group of teens for 2 series and then replaces the cast for the next 2 series. It takes on risky subject matters. There are lots sex, drugs and everything else. I also really like the show setting different characters as the lead in many of the episodes. It's a very innovative and risky approach to a TV series. The cast is mostly compelling with some great young up-and-comers.The first two series are led by the bold popular Tony Stonem (Nicholas Hoult). The best character is the eccentric and damaged Cassie Ainsworth (Hannah Murray). There is also the silent and mercurial Effy Stonem (Kaya Scodelario).The second two series are led by Eff and her talkative innocent friend Panda. The most interesting characters are probably the twins Katie (Megan Prescott) and Emily Fitch (Kathryn Prescott). Their relationship is somewhat outside the norm for TV and has loads of drama. James Cook (Jack O'Connell) is the lead male.The third two series started off with the sexually ambiguous Franky Fitzgerald (Dakota Blue Richards) and her rocky relationship with queen bee Mini McGuinness. Franky is befriended first by nice Grace Blood. Franky's character changed a bit too much for my taste. Also the lost of Grace disconnects the two halves.The seventh series revisits Effy Stonem, Cassie Ainsworth and James Cook after they left school.

alex239-545-53158 Despite some scathing criticism and a reductionist advert campaign that focused disproportionately on the rebellious, edgy elements of the show, Skins produced some remarkable television. The first generation especially were moving, funny, intriguing personalities and the writing was superb. Season 1, structured mainly around the bored, semi-sociopathic narcissism of Tony and the nihilistic emotional turmoil of Cassie had heart, humour and amazing chemistry between all the leads. You cared about every character, episodes were structured fantastically and work as individual pieces as well as fitting the whole. Despite the much derided parting and drug taking, the season actually felt extremely realistic in everything from the dialogue to the wardrobe to the moral ambiguity to the parents, who are probably the most well drawn adult characters in the entire history of teen television. They are three dimensional and interesting, not merely stereotypes. Their comedy is natural and unforced. The pilot is as good an example of a lead television episode as you will find, perfectly introducing the cast, maintaining forward motion and a satisfying ending.Season 2 is almost as good, darker and pervaded with melancholy as the cast start to grow up and lose their dreams. Hannah Murray and Joe Dempsey put in career defining performances, full of pathos and humanity. Criticisms? The Sketch storyline divided viewers, being well executed but badly conceived, and the NYC storyline was preemptive of future seasons in its lack of believability although was beautifully shot with the usual superb photography that underpinned this show. The final episode is very poignant.Season 3 drops off a little but still surpassed expectations after the cast completely. The characters are still well drawn and memorable, the acting is solid, the music and cinematography continue to excel, the writing still concise and focused. The excellent Naomi/Emily plot got a huge online following. Jack O'Connell is sensational as Cook, a role that could slip easily into embarrassing parody but is instead absolutely riveting. The biggest drawback is the complete lack of chemistry between Freddie & Effy, undermining the love triangle storyline that the season fixates on - they are portrayed as deeply in love despite never having a meaningful exchange. Their scenes together are awkward and unnatural. The adult characters also become two dimensional, depicted as being out of touch and mainly used for badly written attempts at comedy.Season 4 sees a massive drop off in quality and is almost uniformly awful in terms of storyline and writing. The enhanced focus on Thomas is a negative - by far the most ridiculous character ever drawn on the show. The immigrant from a tiny, impoverished village in Congo who speaks perfect, eloquent English, portrayed as a perfect character without flaws. He nurses his little brother, fights off a local gangster with his wit and charm, forgives his girlfriend for cheating, makes a stand against underage drinking, gives girls his coat and shoes in freezing cold weather, is devoted to his family, reacting with serenity when goaded, and absurdly gets an instant athletic scholarship to Harvard despite having never ran before. His plot lines have no life because he doesn't ring true, even if the efforts to counter negative stereotypes of immigrants were noble if a little patronizing.This is unfortunately symptomatic of a season that completely sheds any semblance of believability. Edgy shots of drug abuse are inserted for shock value, with one character taking ecstasy, cocaine and cannabis in one sitting before cycling to college, with no explanation as to how he would pay for them, or why he would mix such different drugs other than that they needed a 'cool' looking montage of him snorting powder to show how deep, sad and lost he was. Lazy. The adult characters deteriorate further, becoming caricatures with the usual stock stereotypes of buffoonish headmasters and smug evil teachers expelling pupils, and an obsessive, murdering psychotherapist who is meant to make the show seem dark and haunting but succeeds in making it a ludicrous laughing stock. The JJ episode is the only saving grace, sweet and warm and cutting out the story arcs of the season to work as a lovely standalone piece.In Seasons 5 and 6 the writers vowed to 'bring back the lighter side' of the show. In practice this meant ripping off Mean Girls and especially The Inbetweeners, a show that had rocketed in popularity and prompted a backlash against Skins which was held to be an unrealistic portrayal of teen life next to the embarrassment and social awkwardness of The Inbetweeners. The cast were solid but unremarkable, and not helped by being given hipster makeovers making the show even less relateable to your normal teenager. The dialogue and clothes and plots were not a felt false; the collapse of ratings came as no surprise. More deaths were inserted for no other reason than easy drama and cheap tragedy to give the characters a reason to be angsty and enjoy those lonely, brooding close ups of them that had descended into self parody.Season 7 just served to tarnish memories. The lack of creativity in the writing is seen by more pointless, unrealistic deaths and dreadful dialogue ("Fetch me a towel, jewboy" a Muslim chef says to his Jewish assistant...). Shabby, poorly thought out plot lines include a girl going from admin assistant to top trader at a London stockbroker in a couple of weeks. Visually the show continued to excel but the episodes were incredibly disappointing.For all that, the first two series captured lighting in a bottle with a truly special cast coming together to create memorable, groundbreaking television that maintains a huge cult following still on Tumblr. It is no surprise that so many of the actors have become huge worldwide names. The writing, photography and characterization were all stunning and Season 1 especially is an inch perfect time capsule for being seventeen and at college in the UK in 2006/2007. Stick to the early stuff.

Lucy Littlewood It began a few months ago. I'd always wanted to watch Skins and then I realised there was a Skins Bx Set on Sky available until May, so I decided to give it a try. After the first episode of series one I was completely shocked, I've never feel so in love with a programme so fast before. I felt like it was so real, so relatable and just so gripping! Series 1 and 2 were good, liked all the characters. I was so excited when I realised Effy was returning to the third series as she was always so dark and mysterious I just wanted to know more about her! Third and fourth series, I don't even know where to start. Being honest I think I've watched series 3 and 4 at least four or five times. I cried so much at the Effy storyline in series 4, and I loved the love triangle between effy Freddie and cook! I also liked Naomi and Emily! But anyway series 3 and 4 were definitely my absolute favourite generation by far! So real! So emotional! So beautiful! Anyway on to series 5 and 6 well... I could never warm to Franky I just didn't feel like she fitted into Skins at all. The episodes didn't have that skins feeling anymore, I'm not sure it just kind of changed for me. I didn't really warm to any of the characters to be honest. It just didn't seem as realistic as series one to four, which was really disappointing. But series 3 and 4 were so good alone that that's why I rate Skins 10, might also have something to do with the fact that jack o Connell and Luke Pasqualino are charming too haha! Overall, I just think if you haven't already just give skins a go, I genuinely feel like it changed me as a person, well series 3 and 4. I love kaya scodelario OK.