Mar 13, 2010
Skins – Whole New Direction?
(as a note, this entire post is a HUGE spoiler to Skins series 4 episode 7, don’t read if you haven’t watched it and intend to).
I just watched the most recent Skins episode on e4 OD, and it’s really hit home on what I’ve been thinking about series 3 and 4 – it’s not like it used to be. The relaxed, funny attitude of the series 1 and 2 episodes isn’t there anymore, it’s gotten very dark (this episode culminated in the bludgeoning to *presumed* death of one of the main characters).
It’ll be interesting to see the finale next week, and as E4 just commissioned the creation of two more series’, I hope they’ll return to the spirit of the original two, s 3 & 4 have been very dark indeed. They also killed off the character that is probably the public’s favourite, which is an interesting move, and has been met with varying degrees of fury on the “condolence” page.
I’m looking forward to seeing next weeks episode, but I wish it would be more like series 1 & 2.
