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Watch: Trailer for racy teen drama "Skins"
By James Brady RyanOctober 21st, 2010, 3:26 pmComments (5)
Another day, another trailer for a US remake of a British show. If you don't know, Skins is a British show that follows a group of teenagers through high-school antics that are a bit on the wild side. (Imagine if Degrassi was mixed with a strong shot of nihilism.) Like lots of teen-focused shows on this side of the Atlantic, the characters deal with everything from eating disorders to drugs to sex. But the British show always felt more real and less glamorized than whatever's happening on the new 90210 right now.
So, want to get a look at the MTV version? Well, I would love to show it you, but EW.com has an exclusive video, so you'll have to click on through. What I can give you, though, is the trailer for the original, if you want to check that out. But first, a few thoughts on the remake:
The Good: The kids actually look like high-school kids, the show doesn't seem to be shying away from the more extreme bits, and... I like the music?
The Bad: They took out the gay guy (shocker), the actors all look a bit too scrubbed up and shapely, the loss of the British accents somehow makes the whole enterprise feel skeevier.
I'm nervous — the original was so good, but I guess that's why they adapted it — but I'll withhold a final judgment until the show actually airs.
Commentarium (5 Comments)
This looks terrible. The original shouldn't have been messed with. I thought they would at least have different plots but this is almost line for line the first episode of the original. None of the actors seem like able. This will bomb! Such a shame.
I don't understand all these remakes. I mean, people have the Internet, right? And Netflix? It's not like people in the US can't watch the British versions.
Where's the trailer for the US? That kinda looks the original trailer for the British version.
Is a remake of the first generation of Skins, or the second? The first was great, but the second lot were all horrible characters.
Rubix, it looks to me like the first, but I think they made the Effy character more significant right from the start.
And umm, we aren't able to embed the US trailer -- follow the link to check it out.