Skins

Like most other teenagers, I enjoy watching Skins. Every week, while the series is premiering, I tune into E4, almost instinctively. The drama revolves around groups of wild teens from Bristol and dilemmas that they go through. Although most of the characters are wild, the series shows that there is more than recklessness in each individual.

Effy

From this image you can see that this character is the cool girl that everybody wants as she is pretty and she looking at the camera as if she just doesn't care that it is there. By having her middle finger up, the producers are trying to reflect that this kind of young person doesn't care about authority. They don't care about rules and this is emphasized by the smirk on Effy's face. In the show she is generally promiscuous and and finds pleasure in breaking the rules as in one of the episodes she has sex with Cook in the nurses office as a reward for him breaking all of the school rules.



Maxxie
                                                                                                                                                                           

 Maxxie is gay. By having this teen stereotype in the friendship group that he's in, the producers are trying to reflect the fact that young people generally don't care about if their friends are different or not. They are generally more accepting. The producers are also trying to say that even if you are not straight, you are no different from anybody else, you're still cool.

In one of the storylines, a girl named Cassie is anorexic and struggles to eat. Her parents don't really pay too much attention to her and it takes her friends to encourage her to eat. In this case teens are being represented as caring people. They can see things that adults might be too busy to take notice of.

In another case, a character called Chris has an affair with his teacher, Angie. It is quite obvious to us that ultimately she will break his heart, but he does not stop pursuing her. In this case, young people are being represented as not being level headed. They wear their hearts on their sleeve and think with their hearts, not their brain.

Watch Skins online:http://www.channel4.com/programmes/skins/4od