• Network: E4
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 25, 2007
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 93 Ratings

  • Starring: Mike Bailey, Joseph Dempsie, Mitch Hewer
  • Summary: The Brits import their sometimes racy and edgy nighttime drama about a group of young teens in Bristol to our shores.
  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Creator: Jamie Brittain, Bryan Elsley
  • Show Type: Between Seasons
  • Season 1 premiere date: Jan 25, 2007
  • Episode Length: 60
  • Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    80
    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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 60
    The glimpses of old-fashioned heart in Sid’s story, and the characters’ deadpan humor, make this show a mildly intriguing chronicle of youth.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 35
  3. Negative: 4 out of 35
  1. AdamH.
    10
    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!!
  2. I was surprised by the negative critic's score. What needs to be understood is that skins is intended to be viewed by the youth: those of us born in the 1990s. Anybody born in the 1970s or earlier would likely not understand the show, or criticize it for being unrealistic. What needs to be understood is that for the youth of the 2000s, the show is extremely true to life (speaking from my own experience as a 16 year old in New York City). The events depicted as routine in the show (parties, sex, pill popping) are, in fact, all in a day's work for the teens of today. A testament to the show's widely misunderstood realism is its popularity within the age 14-21 demographic the Western world over. The show speaks to us. Expand
  3. The first two series were just perfect, the third series kept the vibe and upped the adolescence stage with the new cast, fourth went a bit down hill, fifth was just all over the place with sloppy new cast who really weren't anything like the first two generations Expand
  4. MungoS.
    2
    I'd be just as happy if I never saw this.

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