Skins! (Skins)

Member Name: Elli17

Product:	Skins
Date:	13/08/09 (17 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good cast, good storylines.

Disadvantages: Can be over excessive and unrealistic.

Skins is a late-night drama shown on E4 and channel 4 on a weekday. With a teenage cast, it's target audience are older teenagers and young adults.

The first two series follows a group of Sixth Formers from Bristol, and what their partying antics entail and cause. The cast are all sixth form age, so there are no late twenties pretending to be teens again! The main cast is reasonably balanced, with 3 girls and 5 boys. And the programme seems to cover every problem a person could have, whether it be a drug problem, a sex problem, a parent problem... the list is endless! The first series ends with a dramatic cliffhanger! A road accident involving one of the main characters. And the second series involves a death!

The plotlines can be a tad excessive, but they are dramatic and catching. You won't get bored and it never ceases to amaze! It is comical, beautiful and harrowing, in the right moments.

The next series is based around one of the previous main character's little sister, Effy. This time the cast has more girls (5) than boys (4). This doesn't change it much, it's just centred around different things. Here, there is a major love triangle, running away, sexuality issues, even more problems than the first two series!

This series is trendy and offbeat, yet sometimes a bit unrealistic. I think this helps distance ourselves from the programme, and we know it's made up! I really like this programme and I would recommend it to anyone who likes watching modern quirky programmes.

Summary: This is a good prgramme which everyone shoudl watch.