In My Skin
Watched the gloomy lot!
Supposedly this was showing a "normal" and perhaps "everyday" Welsh school girl growing up in modern Britain.
The school girl had such a ridiculous set of issues that you had to laugh. All drama is a compression of reality but here they overloaded the central character with so many impediments that is was ludicrous and absurd.
I am not quite sure who the target audience was, as it wasn't really suitable for anyone. I felt uncomfortable with the gross profiling of Welsh people and Welsh society as this was clearly intentional. Don't even start me on the man shaming, simply shocking!
Not sure what the poetry was all about when it was nothing more than rap doggerel! We had drinking whisky is school uniform, and drug taking how this example for a children's show was allowed to be shown I have no clue. The very strange "romantic" segment in episode 2 was quite hysterical because of what came before and after it.
Episode 3 was so full of contrivances. The drama carried on in much the same repetitive way
Come episode 5 we really saw what this drama could have been instead of the dross we got.
Oh well it's a weak 3 outta 10 from me, total rubbish!
Series 2
It was terrible, beyond terrible, it was beyond depressing, there were just no redeeming aspects. They really just showed us people spirally down, substance abuse, children out of control it was nihilistic offering a near alternative reality. I am at a loss to understand who this programme is aimed at. If life was truly as bleak as this show portrayed no one would carry on, and a programme about abject despair is not entertainment.
Watched the gloomy lot!
Supposedly this was showing a "normal" and perhaps "everyday" Welsh school girl growing up in modern Britain.
The school girl had such a ridiculous set of issues that you had to laugh. All drama is a compression of reality but here they overloaded the central character with so many impediments that is was ludicrous and absurd.
I am not quite sure who the target audience was, as it wasn't really suitable for anyone. I felt uncomfortable with the gross profiling of Welsh people and Welsh society as this was clearly intentional. Don't even start me on the man shaming, simply shocking!
Not sure what the poetry was all about when it was nothing more than rap doggerel! We had drinking whisky is school uniform, and drug taking how this example for a children's show was allowed to be shown I have no clue. The very strange "romantic" segment in episode 2 was quite hysterical because of what came before and after it.
Episode 3 was so full of contrivances. The drama carried on in much the same repetitive way
Come episode 5 we really saw what this drama could have been instead of the dross we got.
Oh well it's a weak 3 outta 10 from me, total rubbish!
Series 2
It was terrible, beyond terrible, it was beyond depressing, there were just no redeeming aspects. They really just showed us people spirally down, substance abuse, children out of control it was nihilistic offering a near alternative reality. I am at a loss to understand who this programme is aimed at. If life was truly as bleak as this show portrayed no one would carry on, and a programme about abject despair is not entertainment.