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How accurate are shows like skins?

Most of these shows about teenagers are supposed to be accurate and realistic, do you agree with this?
Skins for example is meant to be about the lives of "ordinary" sixth form students, and shows like the OC etc.
Soo do you think that these shows are accurante portrayals of teenage life.
Personally I dont. But the papers go on about it, for instance when skins first started how it was showing us how teenagers lives are nowadays, and this is how we all live. So surely this just fuels to some peoples perceptions of what teenagers are "really" like?
Lets discuss!!

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Reply 1

person 34

Skins isn't. Skins is just a load of **** and all the emo teenagers want to believe that their life could be something vaguley resembling that, but it's not.

Reply 2

WhatTheFunk

not really, i watch, but no way dose it show teenage life

Reply 3

steelmole

Skins is like the crazy highlights. Of course it leaves out the sea of normality. The second series seems to have gone off a bit, but the first series had parts that made you think "Hmm, yeah".

Reply 4

Demoskratos7

My life is EXACTLY like those teenagers from Skins. Just the same.

Reply 5

dancingshoes10

Nearly everyone from my college watched skins and i would say the main reason is because its not like real life at all.

Reply 6

Milk

34 person

Skins isn't. Skins is just a load of **** and all the emo teenagers want to believe that their life could be something vaguley resembling that, but it's not.

Although I imagine it's slightly more realistic than the OC

Reply 7

bodybuilder22

dancingshoes10

Nearly everyone from my college watched skins and i would say the main reason is because its not like real life at all.

Exactly. If it was so amazingly accurate people would find it boring because it's just like their normal lives.

Reply 8

miki_da_magpie

I think there were aspects in the first series some of my mates could relate to, not me though. And the second series has completely lost the plot. I think shows like The Hills and Laguna Beach, on the other hand, are very very accurate.

Reply 9

Laus

Skins could be real life but it isn't. There may be some young people who do what they do but I doubt very much that it resembles your every day adolescent. I don't really watch it but I have heard that some of the story lines are good and can deal with issues affecting many of us e.g. sex, relationships, sexuality, dating, drugs, alcohol, partying, eating disorders, bereavement etc. Soaps tend not to resemble everyday life because life can be quite mundane and samey… they want us to think that our lives could be like the lives on TV…

Reply 10

Angelil

I've only seen one episode and found it crap...definitely not realistic.

Reply 11

thisisrubbish

I don't think all of those people would be friends with eachother. They are too diverse. In a big 6th form they would be far more cliquey, I think.

Reply 12

Joe555

It's based on a true story....of my life (Tony) and all my friends :biggrin:

Reply 13

brightxburns

Skins is exaggerated, of course, but the basics are right. More so than crap like The OC.

The second series has been totally OTT, but that, I suspect, was the writers' attempt not to be branded 'formulaic' in their plot structure. But, as someone else posted above, the first series was brilliant.

Skins does leave out a lot of the boring dreary stuff. But I have been to insane parties like the ones they show, albeit not every weekend, and I know people like the characters, I know people who've had their problems. It just seems unbelievable because everything is so condensed.

Reply 14

Ad-Alta

I watched the first episode of Skins and was absolutely disgusted at that being a 'real' portrayal of teenage life.
I sound like an old biddy, but if that's how teenagers are living now, then we are going to the dogs :frown:

Reply 15

LaurenFah

Theres realistic parts, but it's full-on, constantly full of events (obviously, to make the show interesting and entertaining).

Reply 16

nosnibor

Do you think anyone on Skins would come on a forum like TSR?

No. Except maybe for Sid.

Reply 17

supernova2

If it was accurate, noone would watch it.

Reply 18

brightxburns

nosnibor

Do you think anyone on Skins would come on a forum like TSR?

No. Except maybe for Sid.

No, not Sid. He's so lazy. Maybe Jal.

Reply 19

mollymustard

I think Skins could easily be based on real life, but it is often beyond reality.

There are times when watching I think 'oh thats happened to me' or 'oh thats happened to someone I know' but the majority of the show is nothing like my life.