Radaronline reports:
I think this show shines the light a little to brightly on the out of control teen behaviour. I believe most teens experiement and on a much lower level then these teens.
Also, I beleive parental supervision needs to come in play of the teen actors as well as the teen viewers.
I've seen the original British version and the sex/drugs were crazy out of control...also, the nudity and sex scenes were way more graphic than what would be allowed on anything other than HBO/Showtime.
ReplyDeleteYet, the acting, the character development, the cultural context and the heavy issues that they deal with were really well done in the British version.
The MTV version looks pathetic in comparison--in many cases, its a line-for-line "homage" to the original, which doesn't really make sense.
For both the MTV & British versions of the show, the drugs and the casual sex are way more extreme than any average teenagers life. Yeah, sure, maybe that one night you had to take your friend to the hospital because of an overdose, but this extreme all the time? I think Glee (including the outbursts of songs) is more realistic than Skins.