The Third Generation: A Skins Retrospective

Notes:

• Skins was popular because it contrasted the polished looking and chaotic plots of shows like The Secret Sex Life of the American Teenager, Dawson’s Creek, The OC. Skins was messy, personal and human. This is exactly why I loved it.

  • No gloss, no glam

  • Writers included teenagers

  • Cast = teenagers

  • Yeah these look like normal british teens

• Series 5-6

  • Characters aren’t interesting

  • Focusing on humans in the center of chaos? No more

  • Wanted this generation to be more laid back and less depressing than the last generation

  • Want to explore empathetic character bonding, but was boring and melodramatic at the same time

    • Made the show feel stupid. Feels like degrassi with cussing

• Franky

  • Poorly poorly written character

  • No character development

  • So much potential

    • Fashion sense, gender

  • WHY DIDN’T MINI AND FRANKY DATE

• Bryan Elsley

  • Completely change Franky in season 6

    • suddenly, body dysphoria is GONE

    • she becomes a manic pixie dream girl

    • Tried to make her effy

  • Dark story lines ARE BACK

    • TB to Chris’s death (ILY!!!!!!!) amazing death scene.

• the child acting of it all