What is Skins about?
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Teenage friends in Bristol navigate messy lives and inevitable lows with intimate, darkly-comic melancholy.
Dark satire. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Hulu.
Skins parents guide
Heads up on strong sex and nudity. That is past what the TV-MA on the box suggests. Beyond that, some violence and frequent strong language.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Light gore
- Some blood or injury, briefly.
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Strong
- Strong means explicit or repeated sex, extended nudity, or sexual assault shown on screen, attempted or completed, even partly off screen. Any one of these is enough.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
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Three questions
- How gory is Skins?
- Light gore and some violence.
- What is Skins rated, and is it OK for kids?
- Rated TV-MA, and it earns it: strong sex and nudity, and frequent strong language. Not one for kids.
Cast and crew
Created byBryan Elsley, Jamie Brittain
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Skins is on our Comedy on Hulu and Drama on Hulu lists.
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