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Skins
EMAILPRINTSERIES: BBC America, Sunday 9:00p (60 minutes)
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 7 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 24 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Drama
Created By:
Bryan Elsley
Jamie Brittain
First Air Date: August 17, 2008
Summary
Starring Mike Bailey, Mitch Hewer, Dev Petel, April Pearson, Nicholas Hoult, Kaya Scodelario, Joseph Dempsie, and Larissa Wilson
The Brits import their sometimes racy and edgy nighttime drama about a group of young teens in Bristol to our shores.
Episode Guide & More Info: More about this show at TV.com
Also On The Web: Official Show Site (BBC America) Official Show Site (E4)
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
TimeJames Poniewozik
The realism doesn't extend to the exaggerated characters and plots, but if you focus on the sharp dialogue (and aren't an easily worried parent), these students earn a solid ... B.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
It's all elevated by looking really beautiful (though not -- and this is the crucial difference -- stylish). The pictures fill in the blanks, and even as Skins strains credibility, it achieves moments of poetry.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
I nearly wrote off Skins after the first episode. But as it continued--I've now seen three, the first two of which will air back-to-back on Sunday--I found some of the characters, including a dreamy anorexic named Cassie (Hannah Murray), starting to get under my own skin.
Read Full Review >Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
So, to sum up: decadent and adult, but too entertaining to be this week's harbinger of the apocalypse.
Read Full Review >Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
The glimpses of old-fashioned heart in Sid’s story, and the characters’ deadpan humor, make this show a mildly intriguing chronicle of youth.
Read Full Review >Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
The show is subtitled, which helps viewers understand the thick accents and British slang, but the whole thing is a bit nihilistic and the characters come across as somewhat debased.
Read Full Review >VarietyBrian Lowry
Despite fine elements, then, the show feels a trifle rudderless--content to deal in edgy high-school archetypes (a gay kid, an irreverent Muslim youth, even one boy with a "Dawson's"-like crush on his teacher), but archetypes nevertheless.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 24 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Will M gave it a10:
It is controversial and admits that we as the youth are a lost generation. Critics in the UK love it but in the US everything has to be superficially sugar coated.
Adam H. gave it a10:
this is a great show and very realistic of teens in Britain. im from england and this is how a lot of schools and colleges are like!!
THAT TV GUY gave it a10:
A perfect show, or close enough. Just brilliant writing, acting, directing, and production in every ounce of this show. It portrays high school and being a teenager so well and does with such deceptive ease, as if the creators might have ripped off some great stuff from 2018, and brought it back to us. I shouldn't overhype this (more than I already have). It's the type of thing that should only be discussed amoung people who have already seen it, and to those who haven't... enjoy. However, this is the one show EVER that I didn't really enjoy much until the 5th episode or so, but by the end of the 2nd season I felt like I might have had a screw loose for doubting it.
Jenn H. gave it a10:
Fast-paced and magnetic. I wonder about the characters when I'm not watching them -- that may be my own obsessive nature showing, but I really tried to not watch this show, and failed miserably.
Max H. gave it a10:
Better than most of the TV shows on American TV.
Allen H gave it a10:
Great show that's finally found is way across the pond. The characters really grow on you, and it was hard to leave them at the end of series two.
Mungo S. gave it a2:
I'd be just as happy if I never saw this.
