Critic Reviews
| 80 |
Time James Poniewozik
The realism doesn't extend to the exaggerated characters and plots, but if you focus on the sharp dialogue (and aren't an easily worried parent), these students earn a solid ... B. |
| 70 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
It's all elevated by looking really beautiful (though not -- and this is the crucial difference -- stylish). The pictures fill in the blanks, and even as Skins strains credibility, it achieves moments of poetry. |
| 70 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
I nearly wrote off Skins after the first episode. But as it continued--I've now seen three, the first two of which will air back-to-back on Sunday--I found some of the characters, including a dreamy anorexic named Cassie (Hannah Murray), starting to get under my own skin. |
| 70 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
So, to sum up: decadent and adult, but too entertaining to be this week's harbinger of the apocalypse. |
| 60 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
The glimpses of old-fashioned heart in Sid’s story, and the characters’ deadpan humor, make this show a mildly intriguing chronicle of youth. |
| 60 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The show is subtitled, which helps viewers understand the thick accents and British slang, but the whole thing is a bit nihilistic and the characters come across as somewhat debased. |
| 50 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Despite fine elements, then, the show feels a trifle rudderless--content to deal in edgy high-school archetypes (a gay kid, an irreverent Muslim youth, even one boy with a "Dawson's"-like crush on his teacher), but archetypes nevertheless. |
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