Skins

True Blood is aired on cable (subscribed paid channels). I don't have cable so I don't get to see uncensored shows like True Blood, which by the way is one of my favorite shows. I'm sure there are other American uncensored shows. Is Skins shown on free tv? Free-tv here doesn't portray actual sex.

It is seen as naughty because of just sex itself. The most we get out of a "sex scene" on free tv is two people making out intensively and taking their shirts off. Guys topless, girls with their bra and underwear on. We know where that leads to, right? Then it's cut to a scene when they go "hey, last night was awesome." or "we had sex";something that implies sex. Examples of that implication are Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Vampire Diaries, etc. Alot of free-tv show basically sensuality and that's it. In addition, profanity on free-TV has changed over the years. They are allowed to say d/ick, b/itch. If it's close to the f-word then the Federal something-that-controls-tv gets complaints. It's ridonkulous.

I don't like the idea of MTV creating the US version of Skins. Remaking anything is actually not good. Cough *movies* . Writers are running out of ideas so they gotta remodel an action figure toy into a movie like Transformers.

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I liked the last episode, two good ones in a row now. Next week looks good too.
One thing i don't like is the cook freddie relationship. I mean, who on earth forgives someone for having sex with his mum!?!? AND stealing is gf!! Soo unrealistic.

I quite enjoyed the episode, although I wouldn't expect everyone to. I'd say it would be easy to judge it simply on the merits of any tv programme- for example, I can't say it really did much for the plot, and many might not find Freddie nor Effy particularly engaging characters. However, it did serve to highlight an issue that needs to be raised, and I thought did so very effectively. There were definite points in the programme that correlated with issues i've seen in the lives of those around me. However, I think especially with a programme such as Skins' viewership, many people simply want to watch the TV and switch off for an hour, rather than think through the issues raised, which i'm by no means condemning.

I thought it was rather shoddily written, the issues may be important, but the flaw is that there was absolutely no indication they would arise in the previous episodes, all of a sudden in 45 minutes a character has gone from one extreme to the other rather than being a somewhat gradual and noticeable process. This I found to be particularly ridiculous and rather silly to be honest, when you see these issues in the lives of those around you I very much doubt they arose in a week and I imagine it was a much more gradual process

Skins ****** up tonight and handled this issue rather stupidly in my opinion, with the only possible foreshadowing being the excessive drug taking

Oh and Freddie is a complete cipher, what a dull character, he just sounded like a bit of a **** whenever he was around his dad and thats the overriding impression of him from this season

I disagree with you on most of that. I thought this was a good episode, and the mental issues didn't just come out of nowhere; there's have been signs of Effy's breakdown all through the four series from the very beginning of the show. I've always thought she was a really odd character, and though it could have been just her personality, but evidently now we know there is a serious underlying problem. A few examples: Series One, she never spoke throughout, until she witnessed Tony being hit by the car and she screamed his name. This event that happened to him must have shaken her up quite a bit. Also, not just that, she was only 14 and always sneaking off on school nights getting up to no good with drugs and boys, and then there was that incident where she went missing and overdosed and Tony and Sid had to search and save her. And then she used to have her strange obsession with fire. I could go on and on, you must have noticed these things if you've been watching from the beginning? But if you haven't then OK I forgive for not knowing. But yeah, that's just my two cents.

Yeah, really subtle signs, nothing of note, example, last episode, her and freddie happy as ever in Naomi's garden without a care in the world, then from one week she goes from that to trying to kill herself, and all the stuff form the first two seasons, she was essentially a background character, you're not seriously telling me you think the skins writers planned to do this 4 years ago, with them getting different writers for every episode?

She's always been a bit odd, there has been no indication she was depressed, or suicidal at all. She was always just a bit wild with few inhibitions, your classic bad girl with little real depth. There's a distinction between people like that, and people who want to kill themselves, not everyone with a few quirks has depression etc, if they wanted to do it properly they should have shown a gradual decline over the last 4 episodes, rather than lumping it all into one

Oh and another thing, how annoying is Panda? Argh I hate her, if there is a death this season I hope its her, getting shot, in her fat chav face