Watch Skins UK Season 6 Episode 5 Mini Skins is a British teen drama from Company Pictures which premiered on E4 on 25 January 2007. Skins follows the lives and loves of a group of raucous friends in Bristol.
Skins has always been a controversial show. It’s hard to remember these days, but the series provoked endless headlines with its sex and drugs when it hit our screens back in 2007.
Remember all those sudden stories about “Skins parties”, when really teenagers across the country had been holding noisy, alcohol-fuelled bashes while their parents were away on holiday since time immemorial?Since the premiere, all kinds of issues have been touched on in the show – mental illness, eating disorders, sexuality, brain tumours. And we’ve also had some violence,
with, for example, Effy’s drug-fuelled attack on Katie.We even had some pretty shocking brutality with Freddie’s death-by-baseball-bat in series four, though that was at least largely kept off-screen (and in our imaginations). Whereas in this week’s episode, ‘Franky’, things get very aggressive indeed.Watch Skins season 6 episode 5 Onlineskins season 6 episode 5The new season of the famous teen TV show “Skins”, making the fans happy, to some extent. As it has become famous with its sometimes depressive style, it does not really surprise the viewer when sad or bad things happen to main characters. But the brutal death of Freddie (Luke Pasqualino)
in the last season and the totally dark visuals was too much even for the die hard fans, provoking a real storm of angry comments on the forums around the Net.Even though the whole purpose of the series is to try to represent the not so easy life of the modern teen boy or girl, it seems that the last few episodes were a little over the edge, making the producer, Matt Strevens, announce that the new season will be much less depressive and will try to get back to what made the show so popular on the first place – a true representation of the lives of the modern young people, with less drama and death in it.On the other hand, the actor who plays the Rich Hardbeck(Alexander Arnold) said in an interview earlier that the next season of the show will stick to the dark and depressive style of the last season, raising interesting questions