Skins is back. This is not news to anyone in the UK, but I just downloaded the first episode off of isohunt last night. I watched it, with french subtitles, and it was everything I'd hoped for. Well almost everything.
In a way, this new season opener seems to be playing to the shows weaknesses--namely, efforts to portray realistic relationships involving teenagers, amongst themselves and with their parents. Maxxie and his dad just don't ring true at all, and even worse, the harassment he faces (for being a fag) from a group of local chavs (and that harassment's inevitable conclusion) just doesn't happen like that in real life. In Britain, North America, anywhere.
But the show delivered on its (considerable) strengths as well. Anyone who's seen an episode knows what those strengths are: pretty teenagers who, when not dressed in really nice clothes, are likely to be all but naked, high on ecstasy, and making out with each other. Also good music. Grizzly Bear's, The Knife opened and ended this episode. Oh yeah, and there are not one, but two Maxxie dance sequences! TWO!
Also the episode provided me with my new favourite terribly insensitive slang word. When Tony showed up at the "rave" (that's back in Britain? or did it never go away?) and runs into the snotty upper class girl, she says she heard that he was a "total mong" since getting hit by the bus in the last season's Magnolia-esque closer. A mong! Oh that's rich.
Here's the trailer for season two!
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Skins is a strange programme. Accurate in some ways and hideously inaccurate in others, but who cares? The only big thing that annoys me (perhaps not non-UK viewers like you) is that nearly all of the kids parents are played by famous UK comedians - Harry Enfield, Bill Bailey, etc. It's very annoying as it makes them even less believable.
Oh, if you liked Maxxie dancing about, there is more in the second episode, which is oddly messed up - disabled mother and psycho child.
Oh, rave never really went away and 'mong' is still going strong - perhaps Skins is trying to keep it on the map.
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