The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who more want to be friends (and lovers) rather than authority figures.
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Kaya Scodelario for life. ("She'll always be a broken girl"). Crystal Castles performed here :o A country is judged by their teen shows. This is why the UK is always the beacon for TV quality.
SEASON 1 ★★★★ | SEASON 2 ★★★★ | SEASON 3 ★★★★ | SEASON 4 ★★★★ | SEASON 5 ★★★½ | SEASON 6 ★★★½ | SEASON 7: SKINS REDUX ★★★½
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SKINS ★★★★
After a bunch of mostly clean cut teen shows like Dawson's Creeks, The OC and One Tree Hill, Skins was poised to succeed. A brutally honest depiction of contemporary youth complete with drug abuse, questionable decisions, mindless sex and some more drug abuse. It also featured a killer soundtrack. Gets 5 stars for the first, second, and seventh season. Everything in between was crap.
This was one of my favourite shows as a teenager. The soap-opera of it doesn't age incredibly well, but I will argue for this show until the day I die.