SKINS!!!!

My name is Naomi and I'm in love after three days with a show named Skins.
No. Not the US version, the original version from the UK.

But Naomi, isn't it rather rash to say that you're in love with something only after three days?

Well...when you know you know right?

I've been meaning to watch this show for a while and just had never gotten around to it. After I saw Slumdog Millionaire and watched the interviews with Dev Patel, I became aware of it's existence and thought "well maybe I should watch the show sometime if I can find it."

Now that the US has remade it, I decided why not start with the original? Let me say this. If you think you know witty jokes and British slang and sex, drugs and cursing...you don't know jack until you've seen the UK version of Skins.

I'm still on Series 1 but the five episodes I've seen so far are HEAVEN.

I love watching a show that shows the true nature of things. Yes, cable television, people swear and no, people do not always interrupt a serious moment with jokes. Shows like The Wire and even Degrassi: The Next Generation are the type of shows I LOVE because they are a "no-holds-barred" type of show.

I saw the first episode of the US version and then watched the UK version. There is NO comparison. Skins is brilliant and the actors are very fluid with their interactions and deliverance of their lines.

Now if you'll excuse me I have some Skins to watch....

The Hills Finale

Did you hear that?

That was the sigh of a loyal and VERY disappointed fan of "The Hills" .

Whatever MTV just showed and tried to pass off as the series finale AND after show was absolutely DISGRACEFUL. Really though...what was that?

The ending to the series was left for "your own interpretation" which I think was a lazy way for the creative geniuses of this show to get out without a real ending....not that a "reality show" would have a real ending...I guess. Still, I feel ROBBED!

Krisitin and Brody's "end" was a big WTF to me. Lo (whom I really don't care about) moves in with her boyfriend I guess....I don't know I wasn't even paying attention by that point. Audrina moves into a new house on the beach and Stephanie gets a boyfriend. Woohoo.

Yes, boys and girls after six seasons on air, THIS is how "The Hills" ends. What a way to go!

Maybe I'm just being bitter or maybe it's because I just didn't like seasons 5 and 6 because of Kristin and how the show became so weird, but I believe that the show wouldn't have ended the way it did tonight, if it had stopped when Lauren decided to leave.


The after show was absolutely terrible. Not so much because of the hosts mind you, but because of the crowd! All week they had the previews of the past reunion shows where Lauren would come out and she would get a standing ovation. What happened tonight?

......

Yep.
Crickets.
The crowd was so dead when anyone and EVERYONE came out that it made ME mad! It was quite disappointing. People in the crowd were more focused having the camera on them than cheering on the people that they watched for the past six years. Everything about the finale and the reunion was just horrifyingly terrible. The crowd, the questions, the failed story lines throughout the last two seasons just left me with a bad taste in my mouth.




Once again....did you hear that?
Yes. Another sigh of disappointment.


You've let me down MTV.
You've let me down.