I'm a sad sappy sucker at best but I just can't get over this oddity I have about me. I get so into certain TV shows and become so engulfed in the story that I hate to see it end. This has happened to me on numerous occasions throughout my life with certain shows. It happened with Daria and again with That 70's Show. I am no longer ashamed to say it has also happened with Degrassi. I don't fully understand why I do this or if this is even by any means ordinary. The reason I bring this up is that the g/f and I have found one that is going to prove to be a much more difficult show to pry ourselves away from.
Skins is a British teen drama. I know what you are thinking...just a Degrassi clone for Britain...wrong. The only way that this can classify as anything close to that is that it has 16, 17, and 18 year old people in the show. After that the similarities disappear. It follows a group of kids through sixth form. I have not done a massive amount of research but from what I can tell sixth form is kind of like a 2 year degree here. The characters all have massive personal issues to attend to along with family, school, work, and love issues. Each episode focuses on 1 character and shows what they go through and how they see the other characters.
Since sixth form only runs for 2 years after every 2 seasons you get a new cast. Due to some technical issues we have had to skip the first 2 seasons and go right to the second generation of characters but soon we will backtrack. The show sets you up to get involved with the characters and as soon as you do they are gone. Maybe I'm just a sad sappy sucker as I said before but I hate saying goodbye to characters. It's like saying goodbye to friends once every couple years and never getting to see how their character lived out the rest of their story. It makes me sad we can't have stories with full lives, stories that grow with us.
I got off track there but I do just want to say if you have the time to check out Skins. It does have a lot of cursing, drug use, and sex; so no children. Also if you ever feel this way about shows let me know. Hopefully I'm not the only person capable of becoming attached to a fictional character and their day to day adventures. One other thing is that as far as I know Skins is not airing on American TV as of yet and if it were to it will probably be edited. If you can purchase it go for it, if not I believe you can watch it for free linked off the Skins site here.
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