Skins (UK show on E4)...a bit of a rant...

[Tricky]

Aye the boosh was genius for the first season, the second season was pretty good too, especially any scene with tony harrison! "its an outraaaaaaaaage! you absolute jerk off!" the third only had a couple of gems, the eels one & the crack fox. I cant watch boosh now though, reminds me of an ex I still secretly wish I was with from 2 years ago, sad as that sounds

[Danny]

I think one of the funniest episodes I saw was from season three. The Eels Song or something like that... Had a guy dressed up with a bunch of lifesavers candy singing about eels "climbin up inside ya". for me thats probably the worst hitcher episode, nothing beats his whole "wanna know about mah thumb du'yu boi?, intirque yu dus it?" bit from season 1.

[Legion2213]

Nobody has mentioned "Berry & Fulchers Snuff Box", "The League of Gentlemen" or the mighty "Alan Partridge". Best Boosh track is this one... .

[MinionZombie]

Psychoville is another good one - I'm still to get into League of Gentlemen (I know, inexplicable, but it passed me by at the time), but will one day on box set. Alan Partridge passed me by when it was originally on, but then was brought into the fold at uni (in Norfolk no less - for those not in the know, Alan Partridge is set in Norfolk) by someone who is from that area anyway, and goddamn it was some funny ass shit. I remember over the Xmas holiday in 2003 I was up late watching an episode on ear phones and burst out laughing until I was breathless. ... Reminds me of the time I was watching "Animals" by Ricky Gervais with the same guy at uni, and we both almost shat ourselves laughing - I was eating cereal at the time and damn near choked to death from the guffaws.

[SymphonicX]

Yeah Skins in rubbish, I gave up on the first episode when they were searching for "an ounce of spliff". Jesus. it's well written drama though - and it has to be outlandish because normal life for most teens is BORING. I dunno about misrepresenting them, I don't think it represents anything but absurdity. It's a drama after all... The Inbetweeners is a totally different kettle of fish, it doesn't pretend to be mature for instance. Funny show but a little too awkward for me at times...

[MinionZombie]

The Inbetweeners though, manages to show UK teenage life in a far, far, far more accurate light, and makes entertaining episodes out of daft situations, or small issues - or it takes a simple starter idea - such as work placements, and then runs with it through the strainer of the protagonists. Skins revels in being overly dramatic, reliant on leering at barely legal almost-naked bodies, obsessed with having everyone fucking everyone else all the time, whilst constantly drinking like alcoholics and puffing or popping drugs like they're going out of style ... it's really too silly. I'm still watching it ... but blimey, it's the same in every episode. Quite looking forward to another series of The Inbetweeners though, naturally.

[paranoid101]

Just watched the last episode and all I can say even after a bit of a poor season, what a fucking great way to end the series. I'm 38 years old and probably way too old to be watching Skins, but I fell in love with the first series. Below taken from the end scene script, fucking class COOK watches FOSTER. Something gleaming in his eye. COOK: Mr Foster JOHN FOSTER: Dr Foster actually. Kneel down please... COOK slowly shakes his head. The BASEBALL BAT snakes out without warning and catches COOK in the Stomach. COOK staggers back...gasping. But then inexplicably he laughs. COOK: I don’t think you know what I am mate JOHN FOSTER: I think I do. You’re nothing. You don’t deserve that girl... And, you know...I do. COOK shakes his head slowly. COOK: I’m a fucking waste of space... Just a stupid kid... I got no sense....A criminal...I’m no fucking use...I am nothing...so please... please... get it into your...you know...into your bonce....That you killed my friend.... And...(HE SHRUGS) ... I’m Cook. He explodes towards FOSTER without warning fists, feet, everything. Devastating aggression. He screams, whirling past us in a blur. COOK (CONT’D): I’M COOK!!!!!! BLACKOUT. ENDS.

[MinionZombie]

Really?! I thought the last episode was pretty pish. All over the place, random ideas and random character wrap-ups hastily pasted together in a poorly structured mish-mash of "whatever". *spoilers below, if you're bothered* Didn't care for the ending either. The end of "generation one" (in 2x10) actually had the sense of "end of an era" about it - helped immensely by MGMT's "Time To Pretend" on the soundtrack - but, nah, series 4 didn't go out with the same bang. All that stuff about Panda having received two A* and an A in secret from her friends, and then magically getting into Harvard ... then thingmy magically and piss-easily gets into Harvard as well cos he can run fast ... I mean wtf? Bit harsh on Freddie too, and a bit like "well we killed off Chris in series 2, so we've gotta kill off someone this time" ... plus Freddie didn't even attempt to fight back, and the whole 'psycho shrink' element was just silly. *spoilers over, if you're bothered* ... Skins is way too OTT, overly dramatic, takes itself far too seriously, and is so insanely unrealistic (by taking small elements of moments of real lives and inflating them to everyday occurrence) that it's just too daft. The Inbetweeners is far more realistic, and is actually funny. Doesn't take itself seriously, tells it like it is, and makes you laugh and cringe at the same time. There are positives to Skins, but it's really got an ego about itself - if a show can have an ego - it seems inflated by a sense of its own self-importance that has really been growing gradually since series 2, where now - at the end of series 4 - it's so crushingly dramatic and slapdash. Plus the character of Cook was quite often a complete twat that I just couldn't abide him ... and that Effy, geez, she thinks a lot of herself doesn't she, and then randomly all of a sudden she's got a mental disorder? ... Also ... is it me, or is Skins actually a quite perverted show, by showing in every single episode actors who are under 18 prancing around in their underpants with no bras on, flashing side-boob, and just generally acting like its a soft-core porn movie? The camera seems so lecherous in Skins, and it's really become very apparent in series 4 ... it's disturbing, quite frankly, and illustrates the needlessly lurid sensibility of the show itself.

[paranoid101]

Nah as I posted the series was weak last episode included, what I like was the ending posted above.