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There are many controversial story lines that set this television show apart from others of it's kind. The cast is replaced every two seasons to bring viewers brand new story lines with entertaining and unique characters. The first generation of Skins follows teens Tony, Sid, Michelle, Chris, Cassie, Jal, Maxxie and Anwar. Tony is one of the most popular boys in sixth form and can be quite manipulative and sarcastic. Michelle is Tony's girlfriend, who works hard at her studies, is very mature, but always puts up with Tony's behavior. Sid is known as Tony's best friend and also has a huge crush on Michelle. Sid is set up with Cassie, a girl who has an extreme eating disorder. While unsure about Cassie at first, Sid comes around and ends up falling for her. Sid also has a short-lived relationship with Michelle after she breaks up with Tony. Chris is the craziest of all the friends and causes a load of trouble in and out of school. After having a relationship with his psychology teacher, dealing with an absent mother and mourning the loss of his brother, Chris starts a relationship with Jal, who eventually ends up pregnant. After his partying ways, Chris develops hereditary subarachnoid hemorrhage and dies, the same thing that killed his brother years ago. There are many other story lines throughout the first generation of Skins that have made this show what it is today. The second generation of Skins followed the first with a few characters who were present during the first two seasons. Effy Stonem is the main character of this generation and is known as Tony's little sister. Like her brother, Effy is a popular girl, but keeps her troubles to herself and can be distant in terms of sharing her feelings. Pandora is her best friend, a girl who seems to have been sheltered her entire life. Effy teaches Pandora her ways and breaks her out of her innocent shell. The second generation also follows a love triangle between Effy, Cook, and Freddie. Cook and Freddie have been friends since they were kids and are now competing for Effy's love. JJ, Katie, Emily and Naomi are other prominent characters on the show who's story lines feature a girl-girl relationship, troubles of twin sisters and finding a girlfriend. There is also a third generation of Skins and a final fourth season that is currently in the making. Skins in an award-winning British teen drama that originally aired in January of 2007 and continues to run new seasons today. This show follows the lives of teenage friends that are living in Bristol, South West England. There are many controversial story lines that set this television show apart from others of it's kind. The cast is replaced every two seasons to bring viewers brand new story lines with entertaining and unique characters. The first generation of Skins follows teens Tony, Sid, Michelle, Chris, Cassie, Jal, Maxxie and Anwar. Tony is one of the most popular boys in sixth form and can be quite manipulative and sarcastic. Michelle is Tony's girlfriend, who works hard at her studies, is very mature, but always puts up with Tony's behavior. Sid is known as Tony's best friend and also has a huge crush on Michelle. Sid is set up with Cassie, a girl who has an extreme eating disorder. While unsure about Cassie at first, Sid comes around and ends up falling for her. Sid also has a short-lived relationship with Michelle after she breaks up with Tony. Chris is the craziest of all the friends and causes a load of trouble in and out of school. After having a relationship with his psychology teacher, dealing with an absent mother and mourning the loss of his brother, Chris starts a relationship with Jal, who eventually ends up pregnant. After his partying ways, Chris develops hereditary subarachnoid hemorrhage and dies, the same thing that killed his brother years ago. There are many other story lines throughout the first generation of Skins that have made this show what it is today. The second generation of Skins followed the first with a few characters who were present during the first two seasons. Effy Stonem is the main character of this generation and is known as Tony's little sister. Like her brother, Effy is a popular girl, but keeps her troubles to herself and can be distant in terms of sharing her feelings. Pandora is her best friend, a girl who seems to have been sheltered her entire life. Effy teaches Pandora her ways and breaks her out of her innocent shell. The second generation also follows a love triangle between Effy, Cook, and Freddie. Cook and Freddie have been friends since they were kids and are now competing for Effy's love. JJ, Katie, Emily and Naomi are other prominent characters on the show who's story lines feature a girl-girl relationship, troubles of twin sisters and finding a girlfriend. There is also a third generation of Skins and a final fourth season that is currently in the making. Skins is a series that is currently running and has 7 seasons (62 episodes). The series first aired on January 25, 2007. Series 1. Series 1 introduced the "first generation" of characters, which are featured in both Series 1 and Series 2. They are replaced in Series 3 by the "second generation". It takes place during the character's first year of sixth form (equivalent to junior year of high school in North America). Contents. The initial series introduces nine major characters and two major supporting characters. Nicholas Hoult, primarily known for his role in the 2003 film About A Boy , was cast as Tony Stonem, whose character was described as being "a born leader, whipping his crew off on a new mission at someone else's expense". [1] [2] Relative newcomer April Pearson was then cast as Michelle Richardson, someone who is "drop dead gorgeous with a quick wit that keeps everyone on their toes". [3] [4] Mike Bailey, in his first acting role, was then cast as Tony's best friend Sid Jenkins, whose character is described as someone who "lacks confidence, is socially uneasy and struggles with school work". [5] Similarly, Hannah Murray was cast in her first acting role as Michelle's friend Cassie Ainsworth, described as"an anorexic, self-harming, drug addict with zero self esteem". [6] [7] Newcomer Larissa Wilson was also chosen to play Cassie's close friend Jal Fazer, described as "super bright and the most talented young clarinet player in the country". [8] [9] Joe Dempsie, in his first major acting role, was cast as Jal's close friend Chris Miles, a character who will "smoke/screw/rob/snort anything". [10] [11] Similarly, Dev Patel scored his first major acting role by being cast as Tony's other friend Anwar Kharral, who character is described as liking "Tequila, dope, pills, Lupe Fiasco, breasts and X Factor". [12] [13] Mitch Hewer obtained his first acting role by being cast as Anwar's best friend Maxxie Oliver, a character who is "magic on his feet and a whiz with his hands". [14] [15] Kaya Scodelario, who was the youngest actor cast at the time of auditions (she was only 14), successfully landed the role as Tony's younger sister Effy Stonem, who is described as "mysterious and manipulative, but almost mute". [16] Relative newcomers Georgina Moffat and Daniel Kaluuya were cast as the show's two major supporting characters Abigail Stock and Posh Kenneth, respectively. Abigail is described as "posh, pretty and pumped full of prescription medication" [17] [18] while Posh Kenneth is described as someone who "offers us a rare mix of upper crust elocution and street bangin' slanguage". [19] [20] Series creators Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain served as show runners for the first series, however only Elsley served as an executive producer, along with Charles Pattinson and George Faber. [21] The first series was produced by Company Pictures. The main staff writers for the first series were Bryan Elsley, Jamie Brittain, Ben Schiffer, Simon Amstell, and Jack Thorne. [22] Chris Clough, Anne Boyd, and Chloe Moss served as producer for the first series, however only Clough directed a few episodes. [23] The regular directors (including Clough) for the first series were Paul Gay, Adam Smith, and Minkie Spiro. [24] The first series' incidental music was composed by Fat Segal, who also composed the show's opening theme. [25] [26] Episode List. # Title Featured Character(s) UK Viewers Original airdate Total 1 "Tony" Tony Stonem 1.54 million [A] January 25 2007 1 Tony is a smart kid. He undermines his dad on a daily basis and effortlessly covers up for his little sister’s covert delinquency. So smart he believes he can even get his best mate Sid laid, and make a profit. And Abigail’s party seems like the perfect place to do both. Inevitably the dope deal goes wrong, and so does Sid’s quest to lose his virginity, no surprise there. But when the stolen car goes into the river and takes the unpaid for drugs with it, Tony and his mates are really in the shit. [27] 2 "Cassie" Cassie Ainsworth 977,000 [A] February 1 2007 2 Cassie can trick everyone. In her magical world the skinny bonkers girl still manages to fool everyone that she’s beating her eating disorder. Her parents Marcus and Margeritte are well and truly duped. But Sid isn’t. Good old geeky Sid who inadvertently steps out of Tony’s shadow to win a place in Cassie’s heart by being the only person to possibly notice and care what happens to her. The only person except Allan that is, Allan the taxi driver, who takes her to the clinic and who is the only adult she trusts, and the only person to ever see her actually eat anything. [28] 3 "Jal" Jal Fazer 910,000 [A] February 8 2007 3 Jal is not your average ghetto girl, no way near. But what’s the point having the Young Musician of the Year competition within hands reach, if those around you don’t even notice? Jal’s problem is her Dad, he may be Bristol’s answer to P Diddy, but when it comes to his daughter he’s lost the plot. Sid has got a big problem of his own – a problem who goes by the name of Mad Twatter. Mad T won’t rest until he’s got his hands on his drugs, his money or Sid and as usual Tony has left his best mate to take it on the chin – literally. [29] 4 "Chris" Chris Miles 709,000 [A] February 15 2007 4 Happy-go-lucky party animal Chris wakes up one morning with a hangover and a hard-on. Nothing unusual there. Until he discovers a grand in cash and a note from his Mum saying she’s gone away. So like any not-so-average pill-popping 17 year old, Chris embarks on a bender to end all benders. But what do you do after you’ve thrown the mother of all parties and blown all the money? Well, you sell everything that isn’t nailed down and go again – and just start hoping everything else will start to make sense. Sometimes though, life can make a little more sense than you want it to and Chris has to face up to the fact his Mum might never be coming home. [30] 5 "Sid" Sid Jenkins 889,000 [A] February 22 2007 5 Sid is in trouble. Deep trouble. He’s failing at everything. His history coursework hasn’t made the grade and he’s only got a week to deliver something decent or he’ll fail the year. And o fcourse he’s as sexually frustrated as ever and can’t get his best friend’s girlfriend, Michelle out of his head. Will Sid ever buckle down and focus on his future, will his Dad ever give him a break and will he ever wake up to Tony’s manipulative ways? [31] 6 "Maxxie and Anwar" Maxxie Oliver & Anwar Kharral 808,000 [A] March 1 2007 6 What happens when two friends suddenly run up against the limits of their friendship? Maxxie and Anwar are about to find out. And on top of that, one of them is dealing with advances from his straight male friend while the other is trying to fend off the father of the Russian girl he’s fallen for. And it’s all happening on the most disastrous school trip ever (mis)conceived. Surely an entire A level history class can’t get deported from Russia, can they? [32] 7 "Michelle" Michelle Richardson 799,000 [A] March 8 2007 7 Time’s up for Tony. His girlfriend Michelle has had enough. She’s also had enough of her mum’s latest husband/toy boy/business failure/serial idiot, Malcolm. Men! But then a shining knight appears on the horizon with the promise of a happy ending. Seventeen, heartbroken and on the rebound, Michelle jumps right in. But Tony is determined to make sure the new prince in Michelle’s life turns into the biggest toad of them all. [33] 8 "Effy" Effy Stonem 756,000 [A] March 15 2007 8 Has nobody noticed that Tony’s little sister Effy never utters a word? Has nobody ever noticed that this fourteen year old school girl sneaks out at night? No-one apart from Tony that is. But then Tony doesn't give a damn about anybody or anything. Except his little sister. [34] 9 "Series Finale" Everyone 797,000 [A] March 22 2007 9 It’s Anwar’s birthday party, yet no-one is in the mood to celebrate. Sid thinks he’s got his act together, but when he tries to tell Cassie how he feels he ends up in a padded cell. Tony is also in the mood to make up, but seems his luck has run out too. There are scores to be settled. And settled they are, with some unexpected yet dangerously wonderful consequences. [35] * A ^ All ratings are official ratings taken from BARB's database, unless otherwise stated. Further, Series 1 ratings do not include viewers watching on E4 +1, as the +1 ratings are unavailable on the BARB website. E4 +1 viewings typically add 200,000-300,000 viewers per episode. [36] Unseen Skins. Unseen Skins are a series of canonical online-exclusive mini-episodes that fills in a narrative gap somewhere in the timeline from the episode it correlates to. During the course of Series 1, nine "mini-sodes" were released on E4.com the day after each new episode aired. All the mini-sodes were eventually included as a special feature on the DVD release of Skins: Complete First Series. Commercial. To advertise the first series of Skins , E4 created a trailer of a " Skins House Party", featuring the cast among others participating in a debauched night of heavy drinking and recreational drug use. The song used in the trailer is "Standing in the Way of Control (Soulwax Nite Version)" by the Gossip, which eventually came to be considered the unofficial theme song of the show by fans. Reception. The first series received generally positive reviews when it first premiered in the UK, although some critics complained that the series depicts teenagers unrealistically and stereotypically. [37] Others criticized the excessive promotion of the show (specifically in the UK) and having relatively mediocre writing in comparison to other similarly themed shows. Actor Nicholas Hoult defended criticism of the extreme storylines, saying they would not reflect "everyone's teenage life", adding "it is maybe heightened for entertainment but all of it is believable." [38] Stewart Lee gave the series a mixed review, remarking during an interview on the BBC4 programme Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe that he feels lucky for having been a teenager watching TV for teenagers in the 1970s and not the 2000s as "there was something really comforting for nerds and weirdos about programmes like Children of the Stones and The Changes ." He said that watching Skins as a teenager today would make him feel lonelier than he already would have been. [39] In his book Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale , Russell T Davies and his co-author, Benjamin Cook, discuss Skins at length. Although Davies praising the show's innovation in a genre that was fast becoming tired and out of date, both Davies and Cook are critical of some elements of the first series, such as the believability of Tony's character, or the episode "Maxxie and Anwar" (episode 1.06) which is described as "Carry On Russia". Charlie Brooker gave the first series a negative review in his Guardian column "Screen Burn", stating that the series "looked like Hollyoaks getting off with Trainspotting on the set of Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" video." [40] Reception in Australia was mostly positive. Marieke Hardy was extremely admiring of the show, and particularly enjoyed the fact that the show was "beautiful and sad and poignant and perfectly hurtful", while also managing to give impression of being drama that is "edgy, funny and rude". [41] However, she did state that she was unsure whether the show was meant for teenagers or not. [42] Reception in the North America was extremely positive. Entertainment Weekly gave the first series their highest score of A, calling it “more than mere shock value, sporting a wicked sense of humor as well as a surprising amount of heart.” while also calling it "a randier version of Freaks and Geeks . With accents." They specifically pointed out that "the real shock of Skins comes from its characters, who are allowed to behave like real teenagers in all their confused, irrational, hopeful glory." [43] [44] International Airdates. The first series originally aired in the United States on BBC America from August 17, 2008 to October 12, 2008. BBC America decided to air it back to back with Series 2, as the normal episodes per season for a television series in North America contains 13+ episodes. [45] Awards. At the Royal Television Society Awards 2007, The first series won the award for Best Production Design (Drama) for Amelia Shankland's work on "Cassie" (episode 1.02) while Director of Photography Nick Dance and Tal Rosner were nominated for Best Photography (Drama) and Best Graphic Design - Titles, respectively. Dance was also nominated for a BAFTA for Photography and Lighting for his work on Series 1. [46] Skins. WARNING: CONTAINS HIGH LEVEL DRUG USE. The critically acclaimed teen drama phenomenon following the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol. Episodes. S7 E1 Fire (Part 1) HD CC. In the first episode of the final run, Effy has a dead end job as a receptionist for a London hedge fund, embarks on an affair with her wealthy boss and stumbles across crucial financial information. S7 E2 Fire (Part 2) HD CC. Effy has uncovered crucial financial information relating to a troubled deal while working at a dead-end job at a leading London hedge fund, but she is now in a precarious situation. S7 E3 Pure (Part 1) HD CC. Cassie is adrift, alone and invisible in London, trying to make sense of her life. Slowly she realises that someone is following her… S7 E4 Pure (Part 2) HD CC. Cassie's strange new relationship is tested to its limits. S7 E5 Rise (Part 1) HD CC. Cook has a job delivering drugs to Manchester revellers. But when he is asked to help his employer's girlfriend find a house, he feels irresistibly attracted to her. S7 E6 Rise (Part 2) HD CC. Cook's dalliance with his employer's girlfriend has devastating consequences. Propelled into a world of savage revenge, Cook must face his own violent past. Where can I download/watch Skins in 720p or higher with the original music? I know the iTunes versions of the show supposedly have the original music as well as being HD. Is there any place I can download the iTunes versions for free? Can't you get 4OD in America? The show is on Netflix and I'm pretty sure you can get a netflix free trial for 30 days if you don't want to pay! Netflix doesn't have the original music. They had to swap it out with shittier generic music due to copyright issues. As someone who just went through this search -- no, you'll pretty much just need to buy them. I couldn't find them anywhere. I wound up buying the first 4 series on iTunes. Good news, I was actually able to find Seasons 2-7 in 720p with the original music on thepiratebay. The only one without the original music is Season 1 but that isn't such a big deal since it's only one season. I'm pretty sure the first two seasons weren't shot in HD. I could be mistaken though. I was just watching Season 3 Episode 2 - the episode about cook - opening is cook drinking and rocking it on the streets to the sound of Mötorhead - Ace of Spades. But as you say, i realised they have changed the music. But even though they changed the music he still sings the song - so they actually recorded two different songs being sung by Cook. At a little relevance to your topic - the original music is so much better :D.