So basically in every episode of the Jersey Shore dating back to Miami (yea its a guilty pleasure, don't pretend you don't watch it), MTV has completely bombarded us with commercials for Skins, its upcoming teen-life drama (only guaranteed to be more edgy and cool than 90210 because it's MTV).
MTV went so far to shove this down my throat (that's what she said) that they aired a special Monday episode of The Shore just to lead into this show. It worked.
I, like a few other million either curious or too lazy to change the channel viewers were subjected to MTV's take on current day teen-life. And here it is; apparently MTV believes high schools are currently divided between hipster burnouts and rich preppies, all of whom are interested in sex, drugs, booze, and cleavage (actually the sex, drugs, booze and cleavage is probably true for the most part).
Now, I get that MTV was going for hyperbole (I hope). The overly angry and fascist parents, the kid with porn mags just spread all over his room, the uber cool kid with his satchel and karate moves (yep, Karate moves) the slutty high school girl who will do anything for good narcotics, and the rich prepster chic who wants the bad boy from the other side of the tracks so bad that she throws a non-parentally supervised party in Mummy and Daddy's Parlor (gasp!). But all of that made the show suck. There wasn't one character who felt real, no one to connect to. Just a bunch of hipster douche bags and entitled rich kids. And they couldn't even get that right because I didn't find myself overly hating the characters enough to keep watching and rooting against them. I just found them obnoxious enough to cancel my DVR New Episodes setting.
The show ended (spoiler alert), with the cool kid's virgin friend still a virgin, the gang sinking a stolen Escalade (while they were inside, don't worry, sadly they escaped), and a gigantic pound of pot sinking with the car that they still owe their local drug dealer for (don't worry, in keeping with the show he's a gigantic stereotype as well), which I'm sure will set them up for a few episodes to come.
