Meh...

Skins is one big hyperbole of British teenage life. Cramming every possible adolescent scandle into each show it seems to be more about the shock factor than the actual problems. It's just stupid most of the time, though I must admit it has its funny moments.

For me it really just seems like a way for Nicholas Hoult (who plays Tony) to get out of his About a Boy image. His character is the biggest jerk imaginable, a teenaged womanizer and knowingly smart. The only character I actually like in the show is Cassie (played by Hannah Murray) because she is at least interesting.

I'll continue to watch this show for the sake of finding out what becomes of Cassie. If it doesn't become interesting soon I'll leave it...

*Edit to include series finale*

The end of the first series was actually alright. Seems the creators of the show were able to produce a better episode that the one before it. The penultimate was just too detached from its surroundings for my liking, while the finale at least helped to round off the series a bit more. The very end features a well-deployed device to help it along.

6/10