Brits Just Do it Better

In my humblest of opinions, the best part of summer is catching up on the television that you missed or just never saw. My recent favorite: Skins. Take the trashiest, most oversexed American teen TV show, remove the censors and multiply by a million. Skins is about a group of friends in a public college (basically high school) in London who are completely open with each other about sex, drugs and whatever else comes along. Whether it’s a testament to British culture being more openly raunchy (some of the dialogue was so blunt that I even blanched) than America, or proving once again that America is a country that was formed by prudes, I don’t know. But it’s definitely one of the more amusing shows to pick up for the summer — and its non-apologetic, honest tone is a refreshing change from the crap that’s left over on the CW after they cancelled their good shows. Get it on Netflix, Amazon, or the less legal ways I can’t advertise on the Sun website.