skins North America

Skin's is funny sexy disrespectful stupid and licentious. It also aspires to be heartbreaking elegantly witty and sub textual. The show fearlessly pokes fun at parents teachers at the crazy rules of friendship and love in the teen years wonky social rules - and any other random target it chooses. Skin's teeter's on the edge of acceptability all the time. But along the way it stumbles across depth and truth - homing in on the difficulties and complications of young people's lives. Somehow we're never absolutely sure how Skins is about loyalty obligations among friends and the difficulties of growing up in the pressure cooker of expectations which flow from an impatient adult world.