On Monday (1/17), MTV launches "Skins," an adaptation of the award-winning British series, which based on the trailer, will have parents of teens quaking in their Uggs.
Drinking? Check. Drugging? Check. Graphic sexual situations? Check. And that's just the trailer.
Here's a description from MTV's "Skins" webpage:
Skins is a wild ride through the lives of a group of high school friends stumbling through the mine field of adolescence... and stepping on most of the mines as they go.
We'll meet TONY; good looking, witty, manipulative - he wants everything and usually gets it. Then there's his girlfriend MICHELLE: gorgeous and clever, just not clever enough to realize Tony may not be the right one for her. And maybe the right one is actually Tony's best friend, STANLEY. He's everything Tony isn't, and that might end up being a good thing. Of course, Stanley is stuck in a pretend relationship with CADIE, possibly the most dysfunctional girl ever to attend a high school... or maybe that's all just another thing she's faking. You'll love CHRIS because, well, everyone does. No drug is too obscure for him to try, and no sexual mountain too high for him to climb. Complicating everyone's life is the infamous TEA. She likes girls. And girls like her. What more is there to figure out... right? And let's not forget ABBUD, the not so devout Moslem and DAISY, the responsible one of the group who is just itching to break some rules of her own.
Be it sex, drugs, the breadth of friendships or the depth of heartbreaks, Skins is an emotional mosh-pit that slams through the insanity of teenage years. They'll crush hearts and burn brain cells, while fearlessly confronting every obstacle head on... or slightly off.
Sources:
MTV
http://www.mtv.com/shows/skins/series.jhtml
Washington Post
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2011/01/mtvs_skins_too_hot_for_america.html