5/5 Awesome!
  by Ashley L. Dourn
This show is spectacular, highly recommended. The dvds are great because they show all the stuff that cant be shown on American TV. Not a lot of bonus features, but the outtakes and deleted scenes are worth it!

5/5 skins vol.2
  by Eduardo Jose Sevilla Morejon
this series is just awesome, although it was much better in the first two seasons for a lot of reasons and the dvd show it... buy it!

5/5 laughing and crying
  by Charles E. Wright (Fleming, OH USA)
`Skins' is a comedy-drama that follows the adventures and misadventures of a group of community college students.
I classify `Skins' for mature audiences. A mature teen will enjoy the programs. Caution, there is adult language, drug use, and there are sexual situations. Also `Skins' is not a morality play - `bad' behavior does not necessarily have consequences outside the group of `Skins' characters.
The acting is wonderful, as good as entertainment gets.
Outstanding performances: Hannah Murray, playing `Cassie'. Joe Dempsie, playing `Chris'. I hated coming to the end of the second season, because it was so sad.
I cannot try to rank the characters. The performances of all are extraordinary.
My favorite character was `Cassie'...
You will laugh and cry at `Skins'. I recommend it very highly.


4/5 Ode to melancholy
  by Paul Lawrence (Australia)
At the end of series one we have the core crew pretty much all having major cataclysms in their life. Whether it's the concept of facing life alone, descending into a drug induced stupor or being hit by a bus, really only Maxie and Anwar have any stability or happiness going on. As I noted in my review of series one, it was the collective strength of the group that kept them all together - in as much as they were. And at the centre of the group, the axle around which many of the interpersonal relationships revolved, was Tony. Charming and caclulating in equal measure he provided a lot of the glue that kept the group together.

Well in series two of this British series concentrating on the lives of teenagers from the city of Bristol Tony is out of action. Who would of thought that being hit by a bus at the end of series one would of been a problem? With Tony out of sorts and unable to manipulate the group, which at least gave them direction, the different personalities are left to stumble along on their own as they face a growing pile of consequences from their teenage indiscretions. But being Skins they don't actually move to fix anything, rather they seem to drive headlong into more flippantly self destructive modes of operation. The madcap adventures played out here are aided by the tight writing and they way that the show does not treat the concerns of these teenagers with a knowing wink, the show portrays them in all their idiocy without making excuses but it also never stoops to being condescending towards young people and that is one of the reasons why the gritty aspects are able to co-exist with the outrageous segments.

This second instalment of Skins is probably less satisfying. This was a brave move by the writers as making their characters more likeable in order to make some serious bank must of been tempting. But no, Cassie becomes even more mentally ill and nasty. Sid bumbles to the point where you want to punch him and is actively annoying (and one of the reasons why this series isn't five stars - sorry, but nobody is that moronic). Tony learns a lot and not all the lessons are much fun for him. And one of the major characters doesn't make it to the end alive in one of the most gut wrenching scenes of either series thus far.

The kids are alright? Not this lot, very damaged people and yes it's true that such a broken crew wouldn't coalesce like this in real life and yes, the plot lines are ridiculously far fetched, but much of this is compelling viewing if you have the stomach for the material. For example, I told think Ned Flanders would approve.

5/5 addictive
  by J. Rosenow (Minnesota)
love this series! as soon as im done watching, i can restart it up right after. the music is also an awesome bonus. sid and cassie steal my heart everytime!