In short, it was the kind of television that resonated with teens and critics alike, raising controversy along the way. In the years since its initial premiere, "Skins" gained a cult audience here in the U. And on January 17, "Skins" finally premiered Skins is a very simple and in fact rather old fashioned television series.
It's about the lives and loves of teenagers, how they get through high school, how they deal with their friends, and also how they circumnavigate some of the complications of sex, relationships, educations, parents, drugs and alcohol. The show is written from the perspective of teenagers, reflects their world view, and this has caused a degree of controversy both in the UK and the USA.
In the UK, viewers and commentators very quickly realized that although there are some sensational aspects to the show, Skins is actually a very serious attempt to get to the roots of young people's lives. It deals with relationships, parents, death, illness, mental health issues, the consequences of drug use and sexual activity. It is just that these are characterized from the point of view of the many young people who write the show and has a very straightforward approach to their experiences; it tries to tell the truth.
Unless you count the lesbian who has to be especially discreet about hiding her encounters at an after-hours club from her father, the mobster, who helps dispose of a drug dealer in the second episode.
This is down from This is still lower than what you're seeing on Skins , and that's not even counting the acts alluded to in that category. Skins is a ridiculously absurd approximation of what teenagers actually do and do not do. Any fervor over it is just that. It's a really goddamn terrible show regardless, but at least it's more honest than the vapid robotpeople of The Hills. After you subject yourself to six episodes of anything, you begin to enjoy it, until the next day.
Finally, your children — or sister, or cousin, whatever — are probably going to do all of these things once they get to college anyway, which is why a show about kids doing these things in college just wouldn't be interesting.
The Kinsey Institute put that rate at And if there's one thing hormonal teenagers are most definitely up to when their parents aren't looking, it's masturbating. United States. Type keyword s to search. The American version of "Skins" just wasn't good enough to warrant a second season.
You have to remember, "Skins" premiered in America after the most expensive ad campaign in MTV history , which highlighted these unknown non-actors in a series of sweaty sex piles and rave dances. They weren't trying to bury the sexual aspect of the show, they were trying to play it up. And it worked, in part because of the campaign and partly because the U. The series premiered to 3. But a funny thing happened after the first episode: The ratings plummeted. And they kept plummeting. See, when the British "Skins" had only , watching the premiere of its third season, that's still about 5.
When the U. This would have been true if the show was about dogs and ponies and ice cream, or teenagers taking Ecstasy and having graphic sex.
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