Monday, December 27, 2010

When you can't share with one person, share with everyone

Skins is a British show about a bunch of high schoolers and their lives. Their lives are full of drugs, alcohol, sex, and basically college, but condensed and run at full speed in hour long increments. The first two seasons were brilliant with a fantastic cast of young actors, and now the third season that I'm watching on netflix takes off with a new cast with the younger sister of one of the previous characters on the show in the new group of kids.

The first few episodes were so-so. The appropriate level of ridiculousness was there, but it was missing something. The episodes with the first cast had a unique completeness to them. Every episode ended with me asking for more. Every episode was like a night filled with drama in which you want to know the next day how it all works out because everything just hit the fan and you just have to see which walls get hit!

This third season did not have this. The characters did not have the depth that was so established in the characters of the first two seasons and every episode was very stand alone, without a connecting arc.

That was until I watched the forth episode. It had all of the over the top flair that the first cast had and ended in the classic "everyone loses, innocence lost" way that I loved form the first cast's seasons.

Plus, it had one of the most hilarious lines ever and I just had to share it with someone...anyone!

One girl to another: "Me, no muff muncher. Me cock cruncher."

Fantastic.

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