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The creator of ‘Skins,’ a new MTV drama at the center of a raging controversy, has issued a statement about the show.
In an essay posted on MTV.com, Bryan Elsley said that the U.S. adaptation of the U.K. hit has not only made every effort to “abide by the law,” he asserts that it’s a show about “intensely moral” young people just trying to figure out life.
“Consequences do flow from incorrect or selfish behavior,” Elsley wrote, “but in the show, these [consequences] are shown to be unexpected, hard to predict, and more to do with the loss of friendship than anything else, which in any context, is a disastrous outcome.”
Who knows if the statement, which sounds as though it was designed to stop advertisers from fleeing the show, will end the controversy about the provacative content of ‘Skins,’ which MTV executives themselves apparently thought might edge into child-porn territory.
What Elsley doesn’t appear to understand is that ‘Skins,’ along with several other recent U.K.-to-U.S. remakes, faces a whole host of problems. The fact that American television has trained viewers to expect characters to get comeuppances much sooner than the ‘Skins’ characters do — well, that’s just one of the issues faced by show.
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