TV Meme Day Ten: Skins

[meddow]

Continuing on with the TV meme. Answering questions with The West Wing actually made me so nostalgic I've finally gotten around to watching the Sixth and Seventh seasons, having been putting off watching them for years.

Day 10: A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving

Comments

[airie_fairy]

Chris Addison in that clip is like a cross between a Michael Palin character and the Greendale dean from Community. Also he actually looks like he could be in his thirties in it, which is more than can be said about him as...um, himself.

I was debating watching the second generation, and then I found out about the dramatic ending, and it's just SO STUPID and SOAPY and unworthy of what I see Skins as that...no. (Although, Hugo Speer...I have Full Monty-based fondness.) Shame, Effy deserves better -- she's set up all fascinatingly in her brother's generation and then once hers comes along it seems like it got ridiculous. :/ And it's weird to think of the third generation being completely new, not linked through the way Effy and Pandora did the first to the second. I don't know that I will watch it, I mean maybe, but that first set were gems.

[meddow]

He does look old, and of course, by old I mean his age.

The ending does sound absolutely dreadful, although I was more offended by the fact not one but two characters end up going to Harvard. That's pretty ridiculous in American dramas, never mind drama's set in Bristol - that's what signals the show selling out to me.

I'm kind of hoping the show will get back on track with the third generation, but still, the first will forever be the best IMHO.