You won't be disappointed!

the audience applauded

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

When I first tried to watch this show, I could not get past the first ten minutes honestly. I thought it was just another dirty teen show. I am so glad I gave it another shot, because now I'm watching it all over again for the second time - it is so good!!After I finished vol. 1 and 2, I was so sad!! Starting generation 2 with a whole new set of characters was so difficult for me, but after an episode or two I think most people just get used to it. I have fell in love with each generation separately. All of the characters all so unique. This show touches on so many teen issues, it's amazing. I think adolescence is a really rough time for most people filled with confusion, and shame due to conflicting ideas and new feelings. This show touches on many taboo topics, and makes many people understand that others have gone through what these kids have gone through. This show touches on so many things including mental illness, jealousy, eating disorders, death of friends, death of parents, alcohol and drug abuse, teen pregnancy, neglectful parents, strict parents, teen love, sexuality, gender identity, severe trauma, sibling relationships, school, etc. It's so fun to see how you relate to different characters for different reasons, and people you know everyday who remind you of skins characters.This show is an emotional roller coaster that will make you laugh, cry, and everything in between. I'm so sad there aren't more generations.

I get that some people think the show is stupid, and just some teen drama. But this show is so much more. Each season is amazing in different ways. I my self loved the 3rd and 4th season the most as it has my favorite character Cook, he is such a amazing and brilliant character that you grow to love more and more.as a teenager I can relate to a lot of stuff in the show, even tho my life is not that extreme and the show can be a bit per the top. The first 2 seasons are great, but I think the show got better as it went along. Seasons 5 and six started off being very annoying as the last season left on a cliffhanger, but you get over it and start the love the new characters. The show on a whole is one of the best when it comes to character development. We get to know each character as the show goes along, which I think is an amazing idea. Great show,great characters.

LOADS OF Spoilers! I watched skins recently and I completely fell in love with the first generation. In the first two series I loved all of the characters, which is strange because normally there will be at least one character I dislike/can't relate to. The Cassie story was amazing, it drew you in so well, especially in (I think it was the second or third episode) when she was showing Sid how she would get away with not eating. Dark and chilling, but interesting in a odd way. The love stories in the show were fantastic and I didn't find myself getting annoyed at any of them, surprisingly. Most series make the relationships so repetitive and sickly you just want to find the nearest bucketI loved the way all the characters were different, and weren't all trying to have the same 'I don't care about anything or anyone' act that you get so often with teen series. (That was a problem with the 3rd and 4th series, but I'll go on about that later). I could go on about how amazing this generation was for days but I won't, at the end of the day all you need to know is it is addictive and that every teenager and young adult should give it a try. Anyway, the 3rd and 4th series... Can I just say, I know many people who really enjoyed this series, even more so than the first- so your opinion about it may be different than mine and you should still try and give it a go. Keep in mind that when you start the 3rd series you're still be heartbroken because of your attachment to the 1st generation, and that that might affect the way you feel about the start of this series. Just have a open mind and ignore the fact the starting episode is full of clichés and so many annoying moments that made me want to slap myself in the faceThe biggest problem I would say this generation had was the fact they weren't all friends at the beginning. In the first generation they were, and their friendship with each other was what made it so interesting, emotional and funny. In the second, they start off hating each other, which I think was a poor move because it starts to remind you of one of those American programmes they show on Disney channel with never-ending stereotypes. You can't relate to the characters because the script is written poorly and they don't go into depth enough. I found myself getting so annoyed at the way they focused the entire two series on the effy-cook-Freddie love triangle and hardly any of the other characters got a good look in (not that they were that interesting). I think the way I'm looking to describe it is no substance. Like the popular people at my school, all these characters really seemed to care about was being better than everyone else. I felt like it was a massive pity parade and a competition to get the most attention. Effy was great in the first generation and the seventh series, but in this I found her annoying and greedy (leading both boys on). It's true that there were a few good episodes but these were minimal, and I don't understand the huge fuss about this generation. The first made me feel and think about it even when I wasn't watching it (the way good series do) yet the second didn't at all. It was just boring. The 3rd generation was even worse. It made the same mistake AGAIN and didn't have them friends at the start. (Oh skins, do you not learn?) I thought rich was a good character, he was actually REAL, the way skins was when it was good. Frankie was good but only in the first series, after that she followed the same line as effy and tried to keep every boy possible to herself. In the first series she actually had personality but in the second she was a car crash, I had no idea who she was trying to be anymore. Grace annoyed me, I don't know why, I think that could just be my opinion, but she wasn't realistic at all. The seventh series was good because they brought back Cassie! Yay! Her episodes were really interesting, I wish there were more but it has to end sometime. Effy was actually quite likable in her reprise episode, it was quite emotional and I really like Dominics character. Cooks one was good too, quite surprising though because it was nothing like any of the previous skins episodes. Scary (or should I say creepy) and quite sad. I was happy to see cook again, he was one of the only characters I liked in generation 2. I was ECSTATIC they didn't bring back any of the third generation characters, I had no interest in seeing any of them again.So yeah, overall: watch the first and second, one of my favourite series ever and so worth the watch. Try the third and fourth even if you think you won't like it- it has some good moments and can be bearable. I don't know whether you should bother watching the fifth and sixth, if you've gotten that far I guess you might as well try- some characters are okay Watch the seventh, it's interesting to see them all grown up

Despite some scathing criticism and a reductionist advert campaign that focused disproportionately on the rebellious, edgy elements of the show, Skins produced some remarkable television. The first generation especially were moving, funny, intriguing personalities and the writing was superb. Season 1, structured mainly around the bored, semi-sociopathic narcissism of Tony and the nihilistic emotional turmoil of Cassie had heart, humour and amazing chemistry between all the leads. You cared about every character, episodes were structured fantastically and work as individual pieces as well as fitting the whole. Despite the much derided parting and drug taking, the season actually felt extremely realistic in everything from the dialogue to the wardrobe to the moral ambiguity to the parents, who are probably the most well drawn adult characters in the entire history of teen television. They are three dimensional and interesting, not merely stereotypes. Their comedy is natural and unforced. The pilot is as good an example of a lead television episode as you will find, perfectly introducing the cast, maintaining forward motion and a satisfying ending.Season 2 is almost as good, darker and pervaded with melancholy as the cast start to grow up and lose their dreams. Hannah Murray and Joe Dempsey put in career defining performances, full of pathos and humanity. Criticisms? The Sketch storyline divided viewers, being well executed but badly conceived, and the NYC storyline was preemptive of future seasons in its lack of believability although was beautifully shot with the usual superb photography that underpinned this show. The final episode is very poignant.Season 3 drops off a little but still surpassed expectations after the cast completely. The characters are still well drawn and memorable, the acting is solid, the music and cinematography continue to excel, the writing still concise and focused. The excellent Naomi/Emily plot got a huge online following. Jack O'Connell is sensational as Cook, a role that could slip easily into embarrassing parody but is instead absolutely riveting. The biggest drawback is the complete lack of chemistry between Freddie & Effy, undermining the love triangle storyline that the season fixates on - they are portrayed as deeply in love despite never having a meaningful exchange. Their scenes together are awkward and unnatural. The adult characters also become two dimensional, depicted as being out of touch and mainly used for badly written attempts at comedy.Season 4 sees a massive drop off in quality and is almost uniformly awful in terms of storyline and writing. The enhanced focus on Thomas is a negative - by far the most ridiculous character ever drawn on the show. The immigrant from a tiny, impoverished village in Congo who speaks perfect, eloquent English, portrayed as a perfect character without flaws. He nurses his little brother, fights off a local gangster with his wit and charm, forgives his girlfriend for cheating, makes a stand against underage drinking, gives girls his coat and shoes in freezing cold weather, is devoted to his family, reacting with serenity when goaded, and absurdly gets an instant athletic scholarship to Harvard despite having never ran before. His plot lines have no life because he doesn't ring true, even if the efforts to counter negative stereotypes of immigrants were noble if a little patronizing.This is unfortunately symptomatic of a season that completely sheds any semblance of believability. Edgy shots of drug abuse are inserted for shock value, with one character taking ecstasy, cocaine and cannabis in one sitting before cycling to college, with no explanation as to how he would pay for them, or why he would mix such different drugs other than that they needed a 'cool' looking montage of him snorting powder to show how deep, sad and lost he was. Lazy. The adult characters deteriorate further, becoming caricatures with the usual stock stereotypes of buffoonish headmasters and smug evil teachers expelling pupils, and an obsessive, murdering psychotherapist who is meant to make the show seem dark and haunting but succeeds in making it a ludicrous laughing stock. The JJ episode is the only saving grace, sweet and warm and cutting out the story arcs of the season to work as a lovely standalone piece.In Seasons 5 and 6 the writers vowed to 'bring back the lighter side' of the show. In practice this meant ripping off Mean Girls and especially The Inbetweeners, a show that had rocketed in popularity and prompted a backlash against Skins which was held to be an unrealistic portrayal of teen life next to the embarrassment and social awkwardness of The Inbetweeners. The cast were solid but unremarkable, and not helped by being given hipster makeovers making the show even less relateable to your normal teenager. The dialogue and clothes and plots were not a felt false; the collapse of ratings came as no surprise. More deaths were inserted for no other reason than easy drama and cheap tragedy to give the characters a reason to be angsty and enjoy those lonely, brooding close ups of them that had descended into self parody.Season 7 just served to tarnish memories. The lack of creativity in the writing is seen by more pointless, unrealistic deaths and dreadful dialogue ("Fetch me a towel, jewboy" a Muslim chef says to his Jewish assistant...). Shabby, poorly thought out plot lines include a girl going from admin assistant to top trader at a London stockbroker in a couple of weeks. Visually the show continued to excel but the episodes were incredibly disappointing.For all that, the first two series captured lighting in a bottle with a truly special cast coming together to create memorable, groundbreaking television that maintains a huge cult following still on Tumblr. It is no surprise that so many of the actors have become huge worldwide names. The writing, photography and characterization were all stunning and Season 1 especially is an inch perfect time capsule for being seventeen and at college in the UK in 2006/2007. Stick to the early stuff.