Privileged white kids (with one Asian)

Which is why i totally relate to the show. I, too, am a recent college grad who majored in theatre, and want an impossible dream. So for all of those people like me this show is relatable.

With that being said I thought the show kind of dragged on. I kind of kept wondering if it would ever end. Perhaps the pacing will be better in future episodes.

I'm a rare combination of French film buff and thug.

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God forbid POC want to be portrayed on television.

Fritzi: Oh save the speech, rummy. She's *beep* I'm ready, and the goddamn show must go on.

Cwluc is right, race/skin color was not why Skins failed in the US. Besides the Skins (US) reboot changing half the characters from the Skins (UK) original, yet still being almost a scene for scene copy, the UK version could take the chances it did because the UK has lower age limits for sexual consent & drinking than America does (16 vs 18 for sexual consent; 18 vs 21 to buy alcohol), which made the UK show less offensive in the eyes of conservatives or whomever may create a fuss.

Anyone with half a brain could have told the Skins (US) show-runners that a channel (MTV) with an average viewer age of 12/13 would have parents & advertisers flipping out once they saw the underage sex & drugs that made up Skins (UK & US). At the same time, Skins (US) would have been fine if they had changed it to a college setting instead of keeping the characters 17ish like the UK original, since college settings make drinking, drugging, and random sex completely OK in the eyes of America (even if the drinking is underage). *cuckoo, cuckoo*.


The U.S. version also ran into problems because anything that can be construed as underaged sex (even if it is fake, but using under 18s) can be prosecuted as child pornography by the government... which is why there were inquiries as to whether or not child pornography charges would be brought against the US show runners.