US Version of Skins

The successful British teenage drama Skins has made it’s way over the Atlantic and is set to be shown in 2011, but not the British version, a remake with American teenagers who are trying way too hard to be the characters in the British show.

From the trailer below it looks like they have every single plot line from the British frist series and it looks like it is going to be exactly the same! It makes me think why do they not just show the British version over there instead of wasting money on a production and cast to portray a storyline that is exactly the same as the version in the UK.

Watching the trailer reminds me of watching a trailer for one of those spoof movies where you see and hear scenes that you recognise but it’s done in a rubbish way. Which is what this is probably going to look like for us Brits who may watch the American version.

I suppose for the Americans who haven’t seen or heard of Skins before will see this and enjoy it, but in terms of if it’ll better the 1st British series I think it’s always very hard to better something a second time round when the story and characters are a carbon copy.

We will have to wait and see how well this series will do in the States when it’s released next year.