While Skins Season 4 just started with the mission to close the second cycle of the series chain E4, it is time to revisit the teenagers skinned alive so-called First Generation, covering seasons 1 and 2.
Created by a father and son both writers (Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain), the series offers a fresh look and more virulent on the difficulty of being a teen Birstol, mostly surrounded by such friends. If you can see without problems excesses drama, they are worthy of an entry to the cord. Written by beginners not older than the players themselves, Skins is a pool of young talent that is essential to monitor both the work, combining impeccable humor, adolescent mess and intelligent processing commands respect.
For Skins is part of this wave of revival of the British series. With series like Dr Who , Life on Mars (and its spin-off Ashes to Ashes ) but the trilogy Red Riding , small dormer UK takes the hair of the beast. Evidenced by this series still relatively young at one time, initially thought following a certain pattern: non-professional actors, writers and beginners closely involved in the show, filming on location (lots of outdoor scenes, in Bristol), tight filming in HD for the economy and maximum capture of the environment.
In this test program of the channel E4, a group of friends each episode (from 9 to 10 a season) focuses on a particular character, while following a thread as simple as the daily of wankers in a city they roam unabated. For these young people, life is a party where all the excesses are tolerated. But beneath this superficial scolds a terrible reality, immediate if one pays attention: all figures are missing adults, drug addicts, who have resigned, gone, gone gone. Even the teachers quit or persist in not understanding. Strangely, some characters appear sporadically for more or less guide these young cue total loss. They are ultimately an island where moored temporarily, without providing real solutions. clueless and without true guardians (only Anwar, Indian origin, is surrounded by a family very active), they tear on social issues as diverse as possible (homosexuality, religion, drugs), completing this program loaded by setbacks and personal histories of each.
Ultra cheerful despite everything, Season 1 of the show develops its "mythology" with great bursts of flashes as the character very "Valmont" Tony, likes to manipulate people out of spite. The group, welded face of adversity, is facing failure at school, the evenings that go wrong, disappointed love, life in general. It's so simple it could be silly, if not for the original treatment, plastics (location shooting is to many) and the tone was beautiful attend frolicking down-to-earth The series is quite funny sometimes a stamp in these situations, recalling a humorous non-british sensique purely .
Stuffing cut short in season 2, less attractive from the outset. Group dislocated friendships torn down, the dynamic is lost. It quickly loses foot as the characters scattered. Cassie, blonde angel for which we can only take a fancy to his first appearance in Season 1, becomes a wandering ghost. First absent, she finally board, haunting spirits, appears as it sees fit. He forgives his eccentricity, even though she knows everything. It is paradoxically the most perceptive character in the series, between free and furious action.
While the recovery seemed to skate on his first episode, the series takes off like wildfire thereafter to abandon any notion of compassion vis-à-vis his characters. Is thrown into the real world they will separate. Ending on a heart-breaking effect of unsustainable with a desperate flight for everyone, we think we can distinguish the sequence of operations, finally abandoned as a work in progress never completed. The great strength of the show is to give us hope we never impose it.
Standard strictly cool Skins won his soul with its season 2. It is important not to stop on the promotional photos gimmicks literally hiding the misery is a series Skins Crude and brutal, aping the worst for the final embrace passionately. As at the end, everything led to this end, the season 3 adapts the concept by rearranging his entire cast in which there are only Effy, Tony's little sister. New generation, new stories. We had beautiful endeavor immensely to these characters more human than ever, we must let go. Skins completes a cycle and restarts on a new one. To see
imperative in English, to enjoy an English accent and its derivatives joyously incomprehensible.
Seasons 1 and 2 available in France, published in Studio Canal