Anyhow, the point I wanted to raise is this week E4 announcers keep telling us they'll be a preview of episode 1 on the E4 Skins My Space page from Thursday.
What I don't get is why they're continuously plugging My Space.
Not only have they got a perfectly good site of their own where they could show the preview, but E4.com is about to be relaunched as a My Space style social network, so they just seems to be plugging the competition!
It looks stupid, I'm 19 and no-one lives like these teenagers nor did anyone in my year at school. Its exagerrating things way too much to make the teens of today look edgy and controversial when really all they do is sit at home on the computer all night ( no joke )
It looks stupid, I'm 19 and no-one lives like these teenagers nor did anyone in my year at school. Its exagerrating things way too much to make the teens of today look edgy and controversial when really all they do is sit at home on the computer all night ( no joke )
I'm 20 and nobody really acted like these teenagers. Yes, a lot of partying we did indeed in our teen years and drinking, and obviously still now, but at 17, not at all like this mob. Simon Amstell was a scriptwriter.
It seems to be aimed at the sort of morons who find drugs inherently hilarious and cool, which I'll never understand. It's almost a parody of what you'd expect an E4 teen drama to look like. In fact I can't think of a single teen drama that isn't full of b*ll*cks
It does have some good credentials, and I think crucially it comes from a team of young writers - apparantly anyone over 25 or so wasn't aloud in tthe storyline meetings.
We don't actually get many teen dramas here in the UK - and even this is more adult than your standard OC type fair. Apart from Hollyoaks, the only other UK teen drama I can think of in recent years is As If.
However it does look greatly exagerated but that might be a good thing in some sense
I don't think it's a good thing when you're effectivly promoting drug use and party lifestyles to young people. It's bad enough that we see young kids hanging around drinking, smoking and taking drugs, then we have programmes like this that are effectivly telling them it's OK to behave like this. For someone like me who's had family members f**k up their lives through drug abuse, programmes like this hardly help matters.
The fact is, even if this show isn't meant to promote this sort of behaviour, young people are hugely influenced by what they see/hear/read, and making a TV show about people their ages doing drugs, smoking, drinking and shagging is in my opinion hugely irresponsible and will, in their eyes (even if that's not the intentions of producers) be condoning the behaviour and telling them it's alright. The fact is, children & teenagers don't think like adults- adults likely wouldn't be influenced by a show of this content. Teenagers on the other hand..... Obviously, I haven't seen the show yet, but from the bits I have seen, Channel 4 should be ashamed, not only comissioning it, but promoting it as heavily as they are.
I agree with making stuff that's controversial, pushes boundaries, and gets people asking questions. But when it gets to the point you're effectivly promoting this kind of behaviour to a very impressionable audience, then is it going TOO far?