[Mikel_Cooperman]

Anyone going to watch this?
Looks promising and USA today gave it 3 stars.
It's worth a look.

From TV Guide:

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Provocatively titled and appealingly cast, Skin takes the outline of Romeo and Juliet and sets it down in contemporary Los Angeles. But don't let the title fool you. The producers stress it's about the characters. And it is. To be sure, there is flesh to be seen: a corset-clad torso here, a naked back there. But that's hardly the focus, only serving as a backdrop to the romance — and a war.

From USA today:

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Bad things happen on the soon-to-return O.C., but even the worst calamities don't dim the essential sunniness of this addictive summer pleasure. This is soap as teenage wish fulfillment; little is meant to register as real, and little does.
Skin is darker and deeper — and for adults, if not teens, it probably will prove more satisfying. Produced with their customary high-gloss sheen by Jerry Bruckheimer's TV company, Skin traps a 21st-century Romeo and Juliet between two dirty worlds: politics and porn. Throw in race, religion and economic disparity, and you have enough problems to keep a soap busy for decades.

[Mohsen Sadeghi]

I found the first episode mind numbingly, insultingly stupid. Yet I loved the show. How else are we going to see Asia Carrera and a bunch of other porn stars on prime time?

My question is, how can they drag this little soap opera line of love story for the entire season?

[Mikel_Cooperman]

I found it enjoyable too yet not as much a guilt pleasure like O.C.
My partner wondered the same thing about how they were going to drag the story out.

[Elizabeth S]

I missed this, as my tape ran out. (Yeah, still tape.) :b

Is the episode on Friday a rerun of the premiere, or the 2nd episode?

[Don Black]

Re-run.

The pilot was terribly edited. They could have elaborated on all of the different story lines and extended them to fit 4-5 episodes. Instead, it was a disjointed mess. The show has potential but the OC started out much better imho.

[Patrick Sun]

I noted that Russell Mulcahy (of Highlander fame) directed this pilot.

I thought the new spin on "Romeo and Juliet" was entertaining with some of the funniest melodramatic dialogue heard/spoken in some time on TV.

The guy playing Adam's dad, Michael, (Kevin Anderson) totally gets upstaged by Ron Silver, even though he's a bit more bombastic, arms-flinging-drowning manner.

I'll tune in again.

[Patrick Sun]

Can't believe how much Rachel Ticotin has aged since Total Recall.

Also, it was nice to see Laura Leighton (Sydney on Melrose Place) on TV again, though she needs to stop denying herself the ocassional cheeseburger.

[Mikel_Cooperman]

Ouch!
it was trounced in the ratings doing worse than Girls Club a year ago.
It got a 4.5/6 which is not good.
The good news is the new Joe Millionaire didnt do well either.
My advice to FOX. Put OC and Skin together.

[Kevin Porter]

FOX is replaying this tonight due to crappy ratings. Classic lines include:

"You know how many politicians it takes to screw in a light bulb"

"GO SCREW YOURSELF!"

Go screw yourself? This is an R-rated flick compressed into the PG-13 world of TV. From the cold opening, you can feel the Bruckheimer touch with his fingers of time-laspe photography, sped up film, and overall meaningless, flashy visuals. Oscar Wilde or whatever her name is may be smokin but it's not enough to keep my interest.


Right now on the show, they are blaspheming Moby's "Porcelain". What a disgrace.

[Brian Lawrence]

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FOX is replaying this tonight due to crappy ratings.

It was already scheduled for a second showing on Friday, before it first aired on Monday. The ratings may have been piss poor, but the show was going to air again regardless.