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So here we go I should recap the far superior totally awesome finest program of late 07 and early 08 “Skins” ze super dirty, harsh, darkly comedic British teen drama. But, since I went on a total binge(blame the actress Hannah Moore who plays the fucked up Cassie) and saw all of them and don’t want to spoil so I give my reccomendation. Totally worth ze torrent or borrowing your friends BBC America connected television.
Skins watch it, NOW!
But, noooo I’m covering 90210! In honor of all those who will in fact be asking me about it soon enough.(yes I see you waving at me Jenny and Beath)
Ok so the setup is exactly the same as new Degrassi… it’s a new generation of teens some of whom are totally related to the old generation of teens. Lets look at our characters.
Shenae Grimes(former star of gasp! Degrassi) plays Annie our valiant lead who burns up the screen with mad cuteness and total charisma. She kinda resembles a mini-Amanda Righetti(Hailey from the OC). Anyway it’s her world and every other one of the younger actors are her bitch. I look forward to seeing either back on Degrassi or something with better material.
And her adopted brother(played by Token Black, ok actually played by Tristan Wilds) gets into scuffles with lacrosse players the way we saw Ryan do with the soccer team on OC sea 1. In fact it’s like the same scene. He’s ok, nothing special.
Rob Estes summons his best Silk Stockings performance and times it by 1 as the patriarch/principal of the school… meh, bad excuse to get him in the show FAR too much. Totally also has a storyline also bogarded from OC and an illegitamite child.
Aunt Becky/Lori Loughlin seems to be getting screwed out of her rightful place at head of the show, and is solid/still good looking, in fact you can totally watch Summerland(her last vehicle) and see the same shit.
Jenny Garth misses Amanda Bynes, I can tell, because her work as Kelly Taylor was way cuter when she had Amanda’s flaquita 50s sitcom madness to work off of. She has a kid and of course a sister, who is oh so Emo! And you can tell because she wears black, with a nickname and blogs! She’s related to Kelly and David Silver, in a weird incestuous remarriage thing of adult characters who were barely a part of the original show.
This girl who plays Naomi(the Mean Girl) is boring. Why is this making me want to watch Gossip Girl(which I hate)
And the requisite drug character, Adrianna(Jessica Lowndes) is hot because she looks like “What about my ching ching ching” era Nelly Furtado. She’s at least ok, for this reason alone.
There is a latin actor playing an arab(god forbid give a real arab a chance) who is the new Andrea Zuckerman(who also has a next generation kid in a minor role.). He’s does tha paper, his dad does porn, isn’t that HILARIOUS! The show wants you to think so.
Jessica Walter star of Arrested Development and Grand Prix, beats as the Movie Star Grandma character, flexing her muscle as classic acting awesomeness.
Last main character, thank god! Some curly haired pretty boy dude names Ethan who is a man-whore/crush of our heroine. He dates Naomi. He’s a dick. There ya go.
Assorted notes of episode 1
It’s every teen drama you’ve seen in your life both good and bad. See I try and support Austin peeps like the recreator of this program, and this is what I get, boring fucking telelvision.
For every great Tilly and the Wall performance(which seemed like the Rooney performs episode) and Adele song played, they played TWO fucking Ting Tings songs. Dear God.
More misery in hour 2
There’s some Saved By The Bell style prank another school plot and wait, there are more characters, goddamn it…
Some pretty boy singer guy, who Annie also likes. Todd or Ty or something. He has a Bentley, he’s workin it with jets and bollicks like that. Charisma=0 again.
Awkward, mouthy cool teacher guy gets a lot of screen time…for a show about teens.
Shannen Doherty gets her one line in episode 1 and cashed her 75000 dollar check, huzzah for Brenda! And then she earns her pay in an awkward happy reunion scene! With Kelly and Nat(yes the Peach Pit guy)
Oh hey they play video games like the OC!!! Fake ones, unlike the endless Ninja battles of Dynasty Wars that Ryan and Seth rocked.
The final verdict(with 20 minutes left to watch)
Goddamn I miss Luke Perry… And John from Cincinnati for that matter.
Booooooooo!!!!! I think this proves Fantatique’s blog about how awful the new 90210 will be true. And won’t be watching again.
Shenae Grimes. Totally cute. Totally talented. Please for the love of God go back to Degrassi The Next Generation and get in a three way cat fight with Emma and Manny over Craig. Or how about doing some film where she is the cute friend of Keira Knightley or something, then I can go see it.
Watch Skins not this dreck.
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