Why does skins change characters

Then 2 I started to no care for any. I kept saying to my self the story's aren't hashed out at all. For instance when Sids dad dies. What was that! Never shows what happens, the mother never comes til way later. He wasn't old nd looked healthy. What happened? Cassie was my favorite and became my least favorite character and Tony one of my faves in the first he was my least. There were 2 good episodes.

I'm not going to continue in since there's 7 seasons now. It was fun while it lasted. Time for something new. Ooh baby baby it's a old world. Just watched for 1st time in the Great Netflix lock down of Harry Enfield writing, directing comes over as if you ignore the fact its not him, Burke and Whitehouse some of the scenes and dialogue could be straight from Harry Enfield and Chums 9.

But as a slow burn it wasn't bad but maybe should have been called the Cook Report or something. Complex issues etc but I can see why girls and males liked it. Predictable endings, a true don't judge the cover set of episodes. I doubt many of the teenagers will mind. It is a very solid 8 on basis of series DavidYZ 14 April This is a very well-written and well-acted teen drama with a lot of humour. I've not given it a 10, because some of the plot lines are unrealistic, such as Anwar going from being a virgin to being a king of casual sex within a short time.

I've watched all of the first series and am part-way through watching the second. My review only applies to those episodes that I've watched. Outrageous,edgy and unforgettable imdbbl 15 February This is my opinion on the first and second season only : Skins is an amazing show and definitely one of the best ever made. Never in TV history someone dared to make such an outrageous and edgy series. For the first time people can see a fair portrayal of what is like to be a teen these days.

Sometimes things are exaggerated for effect, but it mirrors a massive culture that exists out there. The characters are all absolutely brilliant, all very layered and very deep and you'll definitely relate to them in many ways. The show is very well written and the humor is extremely clever and balances well with the dramatic scenes. The music is a big part of the series as well but you won't hear the usual suspects like Coldplay Perfect show, one of my favorites and one that people will not forget.

In Memory Of Max Preece, — , v1. Spoilers as there is a question of good taste. First viewing, I found season three to be scary. I had found an ultra low cost second hand DVD set of season three. My reaction to the IMDb user reviews was to not expect too much from this season, one and two maybe but not three plus.

The actual thing turned out to be vastly different to what I had expected. Starting off, first episode, a fantastic view of a main street of Bristol, soon followed by a sick bit about a car driver who had crashed, soon followed by a whole spectrum of other stuff.

The first episode has a bit of everything and some episodes have a lot of what I consider to be fantastic and some episodes, including the finale, are what I experience as real horror. There looks to have been forces to turn most everyone into rabbits, yes, but the repercussions of that can seem to be a more dominant part of the story. Forces to turn them into rabbits, but lots of other forces too. These are not happy rabbits going about things in a way that spreads a positive structure and well-being and healed personae.

The characters of parent age highlight this the most. The disk set itself is extensive. Lots of background. End credits of episode Max Preece appears to have been a real person. A young Bristol musician who created some input for the first two series of Skins. At first I assumed that max Proust - max priest — max golden fleece was a made up name, a follow on to Little Miss Sunshine, but a net search returns a few results. As a memorial this is strong and powerful sunshine and vomit and stuff.

By February I have seasons one to six. I do not watch 5 and 6 often. Skins can show that there can be an urgent need for such helps, but that what is available can be a disaster. Rather than just say that there is a massive problem, Skins manages to illustrate it.

Except that season six has episodes with healthcare and these show a positive and helpful Health Service, the teens as the problem. Much of season 6 is 'approachable Skins'. It still highlights how the characters are sinking into traps, getting chains.

I was really noticing the sexuality in season 6, mostly because of Dakota Blue, a sugar coating for Skins disaster. At least the disaster horror tragedy has a sugar coating. How music is used is helpful as well. April , I now have the full set, seasons 1 to 7. Season seven only has six episodes, but they are all more approachable then the previous seasons. Great writing. Excellent Acting. Good mix of comedy and drama, with frequent laugh out loud moments and displays of deep emotion.

For roughly a season and half. Then it just degenerated I to an average show with young adults having the same problems as others in other shows.

Acting then slipped off a bit with tawdry if not outright dumb plots unable to hold interest. Too bad it couldn't remain consistent. How it endured as long as it did is a mystery. I disagree with all those who say this is a teen-only drama.

When I first saw the trailers and accompanying hype, I steered clear of it as it looked like yet another teen programme. But then I watched the second episode, about Cassie the anorexic, and was hooked. It managed to be both funny and touching - so much so that I cried at the end.

It's a lot like Teachers in its sense of humour, and it has its location, Bristol, in common with Teachers. It's a shame it isn't on at an earlier time, as the script is wonderful and the characters so well drawn.

Plus the performances by the young cast are extremely professional. I think good drama appeals to all ages, and I'm light years outside the target demographic for this.

So I'd like to encourage the more mature viewer to give it a go - especially if you were a fan of Teachers - and you won't regret it. I watched Skins when I was a teenager and it was just so relatable, so wonderfully trashy and well-written, I loved it all the way through - even when they made me say goodbye to the original cast. Hannah Murray shines particularly bright every time she's on-screen. It also touches on sensitive topics, which makes it a well-constructed coming of age show.

I caught up with Skins on a repeat showing, not even realising at first it was the same show. It had Tony as the cocky, cruel, self-regarding star of the show he's played by About A Boy star Nicholas Hoult, who could opt for a similar career as Jonathan Rhys Meyers if this is anything to go by.

No thanks, I thought. Likewise the hype had Skins as a raunchy, nihilistic exposure of teenage sex, drugs and whatever music kids are into these days. Like many a 30something, I tuned into half hoping to be shocked, half hoping to be able to dismiss it.

Certainly I'd seen it all before if episode one was anything to go by. Party gatecrashed by hooligans? Parent's car ends up in the drink? Risky Business. Nerdy kid hoping to lose his cherry? American Pie. Gets set up with a blonde Sure Thing laid on for him, ahem, by his mate? You may remember the John Cusack film of the same name. Sure, a house gets trashed, but with the comic stereotypes it may as well have been The Cat in the Hat with Beth Ditto on the soundtrack.

However, it was gradually revealed that Tony was MEANT to be a scumbag, and in subsequent episodes his friends each gradually came round to that.

If Series 2 lost its way occasionally, it's maybe because it didn't have that story arc to fall back on; making do instead with Tony's gradual physical rehabilitation. And most of the debauched mayhem only took place in the promos, hardly ever in the drama proper. Occasionally we see the aftermath of a party, but that's it. At heart, Skins is a pretty conservative show. That opening episode misleads in other ways. It's inconceivable that Tony and Michelle would fix up their lovely, quirky, anorexic friend Cassie in such a heartless fashion simply to allow Sid to lose his virginity, or indeed, that Cassie, who had a sneaky side despite her kookiness, would simply go along with it.

Would Chris, a wild party guy but essentially good-hearted, really wander into a stranger's house and just nick the mobile phones left there? Or were these incidents planted simply to outrage the Daily Mail contingent?

So why did Skins turn out to be just so affecting? Well, for thing, none of the characters are generic. Recently I watched the blockbuster movie Transformers. It had two women leads, one blonde, the other brunette. That pretty much about describes them in total. Unlike, say, Hollyoaks or The O.

It was somehow easier to warm to them without the casting machinations made obvious. Secondly, Skins eroticises compassion and vulnerability rather than arrogance and cool. Tony, may be the catalyst for much of the action, but it's the nerdier kids, speccy Sid and dippy Cassie, who turn out to be most lovable, while his fall from grace is overt.

Unlike EastEnders, where every young kid seems only written to perform the next cocky, defiant riposte at some adult or each other. Oh, and thirdly, actress Hannah Murray is very good as Cassie, with all her flaky quirks and self-doubt offset by occasional smartness and assertiveness.

It's a performance that always catches you off guard, but there aren't any bad performances here. The confrontation between Sid and Tony in the 'Effy' episode is a great and natural bit of acting; none of that Harry Potter acting school rubbish here. Possibly some of the black characters were a tad generic in the writing, however. Skins nails its teen themes: problems with parents who are only on the sidelines and seem more immature than the kids, rather like in the late 70s classic Gregory's Girl , sudden alienation, strained friendships, idiot teachers.

However, the series does conveniently let plot strands drop, made easier by focusing on a different character in each programme. Plus, there are those surreal flashes to stop things getting too heavy or literal. Skins is to me, a drama about teenagers but not a teen drama as a teen drama most of the time focuses around relationships with boys and girls as if its the only thing we do.

Skins shows us, that in our short lives as teens we come across problems or issues say with our own sexuality, or morality and truthfully these issues can do more damage than breaking up with some boy or girl.

School is simply the setting of our teen lives, it doesn't mean its the place majority of the time our problems and issues occur at. However, both Freddie and JJ are equally smitten. Identical twin sisters, Katie and Emily, prepare for their first day; as per usual, Katie walks all over her sister Emily.

At college, Cook tries to charm the girl sitting next to him but instead winds her up. Effy issues smitten Freddie, JJ and Cook with a challenge to be completed by the end of the day. And so the first day at college begins The girls get are about to leave when Freddie gets a phone call from his sister Karen.

The gang head off uninvited. Thomas Tomone. Thomas arrives alone in the UK from the Congo. His family are due to join him in a few days, and he has to find somewhere for them to live. Thomas has to fend for himself, but a chance encounter at a bus stop, and a mutual love of donuts brings him together with Pandora and Effy. Pandora Moon. Unbeknown to Pandora, Katie has used some rather special ingredients in the chocolate brownies, which take the party to another level.

Freddie Mclair. Freddie despises her lust for celebrity but is emotionally blackmailed into upholding the story Karen and their Dad, Leo, are spinning. On top of this, living in the shadow of the increasingly reckless Cook is becoming too much to bear.

Freddie feels torn between his family, his friends, and his heart, and the isolation is overwhelming. Will Freddie start to put himself first, or will he retreat to his shed, and beloved skateboard, as he always has before? Naomi Campbell. Naomi thinks she has the world worked out, and puts people in their appropriate boxes.

There's her hippy mum; the adoration from Emily; Cook's insulting misogyny; and her politics teacher, Kieran's, flattery. She thinks she has them all sussed, and that it's only her who can see the truth. However, the upcoming student elections leave her at a loss, and her insecurities get the better of her.

The trust and confidence inspired by a friend encourages her to stand up to her arch rival, the antithesis of everything she stands for, as her and Cook go head to head; but Naomi learns that nothing is black and white anymore. The upset within the gang has taken its toll on him, and his fine balancing act has come unstuck. When he visits his psychiatric clinic, he just gets given more drugs.

At home, his mother is worn out with it all, and away from the home, JJ can see his friends coming apart at the seams. But an unlikely member of the gang - Emily - proves to be the true friend at his time of need.

Effy Stonem. Katie, having usurped Effy as Queen Bee, takes every opportunity to rub in her superiority and highlight the fact that Freddie is her man, and Effy is to keep her hands off. She invites Effy to a party in the woods, but there are stipulations - Effy has to drive, and Cook is not welcome. As they all head off, the car strains with tension - as secrets and rivalries build. Their paranoid state increases when they have a frightening run in with some poachers.

Freddie manages to lighten the mood, and as they arrive at the campsite, they recover themselves and start to have fun. A few of the original generation of Skins went on to pretty impressive things and we all know where they are right now. Michelle aka Nips had one priority and one priority only — looking shaggable at all times, but luckily real life April went on to do bigger and better things once the first generation wrapped up their final scenes.

In true Michelle style, she seems to spend a lot of it in her undies judging by the pics on Twitter. Classic Skins. Mitch has since starred in music drama Britannia High , the Take That musical Never Forget , and a few other minor television roles.