And behind door number 22... a guide to some music of the more traditional kind
Catherine Munn and Jacob Martin list their Top 5 programmes to watch over the festive period.
And behind door number nine... some dazzling musical delights
The complete arts guide, for week 9
Skins exemplifies the rule that pretty much everything in real life ends up looking far better on screen; arguments / fights / sex / house parties. We have all been to parties that echo those in Skins, yet in reality they are peppered with awkward attempts at flirting, bad outfits and drunken embarrassments. Skins reminds us that from an outsider’s perspective, they probably looked vaguely cool.
The fact that the characters are quite strange is one of my favorite parts. They are all slightly madder versions of your own friends. The ditzy girl in your seminar is exaggerated ten-fold in the quirky anorexic Cassie, while the overtly-arrogant-to-cover-insecurity persona that most teenage boys adopt is so blatant in Tony; he even flirts with his gay mate for the sake of his own ego.
In this way, a large element of Skins is the realization of a fantasy – we all fancied one of our teachers, like Chris, but how many of us would have actually pursued anything? It is the way in which Skins plays out our teenage daydreams that makes it so compelling to watch.
Reluctantly or with an unhealthy exuberance, I’m sure most people will tune in on Monday, if only to find out what has happened to Tony. Rumors are circulating that apparently he’s going to be mentally and physically disabled. Now how will those sensitive chaps at Channel 4 and their controversial portrayal of casual drug-taking deal with that one?
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