The Battle of the Teen Dramas: Euphoria vs Skins
With Euphoria’s second season currently airing, Mia takes a look at how it compares to its precursor, Skins.
Both HBO’s Euphoria (2019-) and E4’s Skins (2007-2013) are hailed as realistic portrayals of adolescence. Each focuses on dark topics such as substance abuse and mental health issues, and are very open in their discussions of sex. It is because the two shows confront such difficult topics, often ignored by other teen shows, and are unabashedly explicit that they are often compared to one another, with Decider magazine even claiming that, ‘Euphoria was Skins with a HBO budget’. In this article I am going to take a deep dive into comparing aspects from each show. The shows are wildly different, focusing on two different generations of teens, set on different continents, so which is worth watching over the other?
A lot of the characters in Euphoria appear to be more amped up versions of the Skins characters. For example, Nate Jacobs could be viewed as a more extreme Tony Stonem. Tony is a stereotypical popular playboy who often borders on the sociopathic in his behaviour, yet there is no question as to whether Nate is a sociopath. Both characters have on and off relationships throughout the series – Tony dates Michelle in Skins and Maddy is Nate’s main love interest in Euphoria. Maddy and Michelle have little in common apart from being sought after by Tony and Nate. While Tony does cheat on Michelle, he never reaches the extremes of Nate, who physically abuses Maddy to the point the police get involved. Interestingly, both characters pride themselves in their uber-masculinity and yet questions are raised about their sexuality. Tony more openly pursues Maxxie but plays it off as a joke while Nate aggressively reacts to the suggestion he could be anything but straight.
More comparisons could be drawn out between the characters of Skins and Euphoria but overall I’d say Skins triumphs when it comes to characters. It’s not that the Euphoria characters are lacking in their depictions; the Skins ensemble are just more memorable and well developed. Most people have encountered a Sid or a Tony while at school, whereas eccentric characters like Jules or Nate appear to be anomalies.
In terms of costume and make-up, there is no competition. Euphoria triumphs in this department. Each character has their own distinct style, colour palette and make-up look. The show has influenced a multiplicity of fashion and make-up trends, with hundreds of thousands of Tik Toks recreating the characters’ looks. The one takeaway is that it seems highly unrealistic that a high-school student would dress up as much as the Euphoria characters do to go to school. Hours of effort seems to go into Maddy’s and Cassie’s looks, and they are hardly ever seen with a pencil, much less a backpack.
In a complete contrast, the characters in Skins wear much more eclectic, realistic outfits. They look like real teenagers who have overslept and just thrown on the first thing they could find, especially in Sid’s case (whose outfits usually included the same dirty stained t-shirt). Even the characters who put in more effort, like Effie or Maxxie, still manage to maintain that sense of realism.
Euphoria also stands out among the teen television genre for its creative, unorthodox storytelling style. The visuals are outstanding and probably the most memorable part of the show, with their striking colour palettes and interesting uses of lighting. It constantly blends genre styles to make each episode as interesting as possible.
On the other hand, while Skins is memorable in its own right, there aren’t many remarkable uses of cinematography. The charm of Skins comes from its characters and plotlines, not its fancy camera work. This is due to the fact that Skins had half the budget Euphoria has, so this is probably an unfair comparison to make.
Overall, both shows are outstanding, not only in the genre of teen television, but within television in general. Euphoria and Skins have had a profound cultural impact on their respective generations of teens. Each show is simultaneously a gritty realistic look at the lives of teens while also containing the dramatic, unrealistic aspects typical of television which help to keep it entertaining. Ultimately, I’d say it is worthwhile watching both shows but if I had to pick one, I would choose Skins. The connection you feel with the characters and storylines in Skins is simply unmatched.
May I just say what a relief to find a person that actually understands what they’re talking about on the web. You definitely understand how to bring an issue to light and make it important. More people ought to look at this and understand this side of the story. I was surprised that you are not more popular given that you surely possess the gift.
I’m impressed, I must say. Seldom do I come across a blog that’s both equally educative and entertaining, and let me tell you, you’ve hit the nail on the head. The issue is something too few people are speaking intelligently about. Now i’m very happy I came across this during my search for something concerning this.
Hi to every body, it’s my first pay a visit of this blog; this weblog consists of amazing
and actually fine stuff designed for visitors.
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You definitely know what youre talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your blog when you could be giving us something enlightening to read?
I couldn’t refrain from commenting. Exceptionally well written.
Thanks for expressing your ideas. The one thing is that learners have an option between federal government student loan and a private education loan where its easier to decide on student loan consolidating debts than through the federal student loan.
1. Different “From” email addresses for transactional and marketing emails. For example, transactional emails are sent from info@yourdomain and marketing emails from email@yourdomain. You can also coordinate your email marketing strategy with other marketing efforts. For example, if you use content marketing, you can send subscribers must-read content from your website. Or, you could do a round-up of social media posts from happy clients. Here, we will share the best email marketing strategies you can use to achieve extraordinary results through email marketing. Setting campaign goals will help you determine if your email marketing campaign is successful. You need to figure out your target audience or buyer persona and what they would gain from your content to set goals. Keep in mind the yearly email marketing goals of the company and the products or services of the year. Based on this, you can plan to send promotional emails after the products or services launch or set up transactional emails after the purchase is made.
http://serthehanjo1972.iamarrows.com/stripo
Drag the image above or from Desktop to insert them into the editor. You only need the right website builder to create a drag and drop website. This lets you avoid the tedious coding work altogether while focusing on building your page visually. It’s a fun process that anyone can accomplish. The source code of the feature is available on GitHub at github ckeditor ckeditor5 tree master packages ckeditor5-clipboard. Postcards is an online email HTML editor. It is part of the stable of design tools by Designmodo. To create your first email templates – just start designing straight away.Unlike the other drag-and-drop editors, Postcards offers blocks for each part of the email, like header, content, CTA’s ecommerce products, etc. These mini-templates look pretty smart.Compared to others like Beefree and Stripo, Postcards email marketing editor is pretty limited and more expensive.
Good post. I learn something new and challenging on sites I stumbleupon every day. It will always be helpful to read articles from other writers and use a little something from their websites.
Having read this I thought it was rather enlightening. I appreciate you spending some time and energy to put this informative article together. I once again find myself personally spending a lot of time both reading and commenting. But so what, it was still worth it.
Introducing to you the most prestigious online entertainment address today. Visit now to experience now! Website: https://kubet881.com/
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful post with us.
After looking over a number of the blog articles on your blog, I honestly like your technique of writing a blog. I added it to my bookmark website list and will be checking back soon. Please visit my web site too and tell me how you feel.
Hello there! This article could not be written much better! Going through this post reminds me of my previous roommate! He continually kept preaching about this. I most certainly will forward this article to him. Fairly certain he will have a very good read. Thanks for sharing!
After looking over a few of the blog posts on your site, I honestly appreciate your technique of blogging. I book marked it to my bookmark website list and will be checking back soon. Please check out my website as well and let me know how you feel.
This site was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I have found something which helped me. Thank you.
Hiya! I simply wish to give a huge thumbs up for the good info you might have right here on this post. I shall be coming again to your blog for extra soon.
After checking out a handful of the blog posts on your web page, I truly appreciate your way of blogging. I book-marked it to my bookmark webpage list and will be checking back soon. Please check out my web site as well and let me know what you think.
I want to to thank you for this great read!! I definitely loved every bit of it. I have you bookmarked to look at new things you post…
I couldn’t resist commenting. Exceptionally well written.
Good day! I could have sworn I’ve visited this website before but after looking at many of the posts I realized it’s new to me. Anyways, I’m certainly happy I discovered it and I’ll be book-marking it and checking back frequently!
Thanks for finally writing about > The Battle of the Teen Dramas: Euphoria vs Skins < Liked it!