5 Reasons We Love…Skins
Posted by: Catherine Strawn
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10:00AM, Wednesday September 3rd 2008
- The show is about a bunch of teenagers who live in Bristol, England, so they use all sorts of awesome slang, i.e., “spliff” means marijuana.
- Skins has its own Twitter, and if you follow it, you’ll learn a new British word every day.
- Each episode focuses on one character’s perspective, so you see Cassie battling an eating disorder, Jal dealing with a famous father, and Tony trying to pick up private school girls by joining a choir—stuff that wouldn’t really get touched on if the show just focused on the group as a whole. And the characters are so different you’ll fall in love with at least one of them (we heart Cassie).
- BBC America airs episodes Sundays at 9 and 10 p.m. but replays them Mondays at 12, 1, 3, and 4 a.m., so if you’re an insomniac, you’ll have something to watch besides infomercials at least one day a week.
- The actors actually look like they’re 17 years old and in high school, unlike Naomi on the new 90210, who looks about 30.
Keep reading to watch the series’ trailer and clips from this weeks episodes, which tell the stories of Chris and Sid.
CHRIS
SID
Skins is on BBC America Sundays at 10 p.m.
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Kristel
wrote on September 3 2008 @ 10:17 am: [report]
I watch every week (thank you, TiVo) and LOVE the show too. It’s smart, sassy, and full of spunk. I love how we get to know about each character individually, showing them hiding those things that they find embarrassing from their friends. BTW, I heart Cassie, too. And, look how the “About A Boy” kid grew up!
John
wrote on September 3 2008 @ 10:53 am: [report]
Most of the actors look 17 because, well, they actually are.
The entire cast was mostly born between 1988 and 1990.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840196/
And Season 1 was filmed in 2006.
So they’re all roughly 17.
In fact, for Season 3, Skins dumped the entire cast because they became too old.